“I was definitely stunned. to see something written like that underneath my photo,” Graham told WXYZ TV.
“Everybody has an opinion. He probably could’ve stuck with ‘he wishes we would’ve stood’ and I would’ve been like, ‘OK.’ But to write that under our picture … no words,” she later told FOX 2.
Graham said she refused to stand for the national anthem because of its racist origins.
Teams usually sing the first 2 paragraphs of the anthem, which begins with the words “O say can you see,” and ends with “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”
Graham said she objects to the original long version of the anthem which includes a reference to killing emancipated slaves.
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave; From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave.”
Graham said she stopped standing for the national anthem last year.