In a Sunday appearance on MSNBC, actor Jesse Williams weighs in on the controversy surrounding the anti-Trump protests of the national anthem at NFL games. He remembers that they only started this anthem "tradition" in 2009 as a military recruitment tool, and comments: "It was nothing to do with NFL, American pastime, tradition, it is just to get boys and girls to go fly overseas and kill people."







JESSE WILLIAMS: There is definitely an incredible level of cowardice and selfishness in the ownership class... We have this perception that athletics is entirely a meritocracy, and the NFL proves in these positions they consider more cerebral, that it is just simply not. And they don't know right from wrong... Seven of eight of these owners gave Donald Trump a million dollars each, and are close friends with him -- a very horrible guy who thinks he's a dictator.



And treats America like it's a game show, and we're North Korea, and you need to stand pledging allegiance as war machines fly over-head for military recruiting videos.







It is also important to realize that this anthem thing is a scam, it is not just part of football. It was invented in 2009, by the government paying the NFL to market military recruitment, get more people to go off and fight wars to die.



It was nothing to do with NFL, American pastime, tradition, it is just to get boys and girls to go fly overseas and kill people.



They are pumping millions of dollars into the NFL to get us to put on a pageant ahead of the football games, to get you to go off and fight.