<p>Surprisingly a lot of people are standing with Colin Kaepernick in his decision not to stand during the national anthem, "calling the Star Spangled Banner "weak" and saying that he doesn't truly love the song. Here is what he had to say on twitter:</p> 
<q> <p>For those defending the current anthem, do you really truly love that song? I don't and I'm very good at singing it. Like, one of the best</p> </q> 
<p>He continued to add:</p> 
<q> <p>My vote is for America the Beautiful. Star spangled banner is a weak song anyway. And then you read this... <a href="https://t.co/iAE62FAbxj" type="external">https://t.co/iAE62FAbxj</a></p> &#8212; John Legend (@johnlegend) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/770469594146435072" type="external">August 30, 2016</a> </q> 
<p>John Legend linked to an article titled, "Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is A Celebration Of Slavery"</p> 
<p>The article makes the arguement that an unsung verse of the Francis Scott Key poem is a moral "atrocity." The author claims the end of the rarely sung third verse "literally celebrated the murder of African-Americans." The verse reads:</p> 
<p>No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O&#8217;er the land of the free and the home of the brave.</p> 
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend" type="external">@johnlegend</a> not sure why it's turned into a battle over the lyrics of our anthem. The lyrics were never Colin's argument in the first place</p> &#8212; Lindsey (@Lindsey50783746) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lindsey50783746/status/770481522143092737" type="external">August 30, 2016</a> </q> 
<p>All of John Legend's tweets were made in support of the 49ers quarterback who refused to stand while the national anthem was being played during a preseason game. Kaepernick said that his sitd own was for "people that are being oppressed" and he'll end the protest when "I feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent."</p>
John Legend Calls The National Anthem 'WEAK'