My audience is the large group of people that seem to get mad whenever a professional athlete decides to silently protest. I will be trying to persuade them that everything is okay and their silent protests wont take away from how spectacular a player is or what happens on the football field or basketball court, or whatever sport they like to watch. I'd like them to think that these protests could be much worse and if players really did want to protest they could easily sit out games affecting the game they watch.

1. I think this audience is the older crowd, white 40+ hardcore christian, southern states, level of education would have to be like high school completion and republicans. This audience could be really diverse as I've seen many other people besides from what I've written down to argue and get mad about the protests.

2. The main audience seems to be real southern, or at least have southern roots. Loves to hunt, talks about their love for America at all times, has a huge family goes hunting on the weekends. Has beards, goes shooting and drinking. Backwoods type of people not used to seeing these protests in their sports and entertainment

3. The one thing that we probably share is that I do not really care to see the protest's either. Other than raise awareness and get likes and retweets I don't see the point of kneeling for the anthem, or wearing t-shirts that express your thoughts on the court, football or baseball field.

4. What we do not share is that i think the players can and should certainly keep doing this, only because it helps bring extra awareness to the issues and shows that there are things bigger than sports and TV going on all around us. I love those things myself, but it is really easy to get lost in them

5. From what I can tell, this seems like a pretty easy paper to write out and talk to that group of people about. The main kind of argument ill be making is that life goes on, the awareness gets raised, it doesn't help to get mad. Movies still get made, sports still get played.

6. Our love of sports and entertainment!

7. On their unwillingness to accept that people can protest and form their own opinions and life will move on

8. As badly as i want to put throughout, thats too vague, so i guess i will acknowledge all of that towards the end as i give a closing thought before the actual conclusion to the paper.