The #TakeAKnee protests have exploded into something bigger than life, and those who oppose the movement have been speaking up loud and clear.

One of those opponents is Jason Burle, the owner of S.N.A.F.U. Bar in Lake Ozark, Missouri, who decided to speak his piece with a super disrespectful move. According to KOMU NBC 8, Burles used the jerseys of NFL players Marshawn Lynch and Colin Kaepernick as doormats leading to his establishment.

“It’s not a race thing,” said Burle. “A lot of people want to twist it around to be a race thing.”

Kaepernick and Lynch are of course black. And, as the world knows, Kaepernick is an activist who has literally given up his livelihood to advocate for racial justice. Lynch hasn't exactly been silent on the social justice front, either.

Soooo, is just a coincidence that the jerseys used are Kaepernick and Lynch’s?

Leading some to doubt that is the fact that Burle is a military vet and also the fact that his bar has a patriotic theme.

“That’s not the Missouri I know,” said Taylor Sloan who took the picture of the doormat that landed it on the news. “It just kind of upset me really bad. Put a bad taste in my mouth.”

“We pulled them out of the box, taped them down. There was no ill-intent,” Burle said.  

Burle did say, however, that he ordered the jerseys, planning to use them as doormats, after NFL players began to kneel protesting police brutality and racial inequality.

"A lot of us military folks take that personal to heart," Burle said.

Adding even more fuel to the fire is the fact that the Lynch jersey was originally taped to the floor to the right of the Kaepernick jersey. Patrons walking into the bar were greeted with the phrase "Lynch Kaepernick."

Burle has since rearranged the order of the jerseys, and says that it was an honest mistake.

“If someone thinks that I mean personal harm to someone, they don’t know me,” said Burle.

Sigh.

In the end, however, Burle says he doesn't really care if other people don't like his new doormats.

“I commend them for what they’re doing, as far as the right goes. I fought for that right,” Burle said. “The same thing that gives them that right gives me the right to place these out here.”