Danny Glover: 'I'm not the only one who doesn't place my hand over my heart'

Logan » Utah State University’s 123rd commencement ceremony Saturday, featuring keynote speaker Danny Glover, will likely be remembered more for the actor’s controversy than his celebrity.

During the color guard presentation of the American flag, a spectator yelled across the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, “Put your hand above your heart, Glover!”

The five-time Emmy nominee told The Salt Lake Tribune after the ceremony that he doesn’t typically cover his heart during flag ceremonies and he meant no disrespect.

“I was listening to the national anthem and paying attention,” he said. “I probably wasn’t the only one in there who didn’t put a hand over their heart.”

'I'm not the only one!"

Danny is right.  He isn’t the only one who was never taught as a child to place his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem when the flag is displayed.   Danny follows the tradition of a sitting President who practiced Muslim traditions in Muslim schools as a child, and who sat through 20 years of ‘God Dam America’ speeches from Reverend Wright.

"It's a Black thing"

Pulling Danny’s inflammatory string a little bit further, he isn’t the only one to embrace Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, either.    Naturally, Danny meant no disrespect to the United States by embracing a sworn enemy.

"Lets get a room"

'Hugo... this is what we call a BRO-Shake"

We get it Danny.   Just following the leader… we get that, too.

Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight

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