Jason Burle, who runs the bar, says the new “doormats” are a project that gives nod to his military roots.

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NFL players Colin Kaepernick and Marshawn Lynch both protested the US national anthem and US flag at NFL games this past year.

Kaepernick is no longer playing in the NFL.

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KSLA reported:

Taylor Sloan saw a makeshift doormat outside the door of Snafu over the weekend, took a picture, and posted it online, eventually getting into a heated argument with Burle on Facebook.

“It just really upsets me when I see people, you know, put kind of a faux patriotism guise on racism,” Sloan said.

“It’s not a race thing. A lot of people want to twist it around to be a race thing,” Burle said. “They were placed the way they came out of the box. I ordered them together. We pulled them out of the box, taped them down. There was no ill-intent.”

Nothing, he said, but distaste for kneeling during the national anthem.

“A lot of us military folks take that personal to heart. I could line this whole sidewalk with NFL players that don’t stand for the flag,” Burle said. “I commend them for what they’re doing, as far as the right goes. I fought for that right. The same thing that gives them that right gives me the right to place these out here.”