San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has stated he will not stand during the playing of the American National Anthem. It’s ours. And the goal of the flag is to inspire us to get up off our butts and work at the challenging and never-fully-finished task of building a “more ideal union” that embodies those values. “So much going on in this world today”.
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The senseless violence by police against those in the African-American communities is what has fueled the Colin Kaepernick protests. People are losing their life, and you don’t have the common courtesy to do that.
Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, also chimed in.
Former NFL player Damien Woody and Miami Dolphins running back Arian Foster think whether you agree or disagree with Kaepernick’s stance, it’s his right to protest the way he wants to.
Jerry Rice, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame who won three Super Bowl championships while with the 49ers, wrote on Twitter Monday that Kaepernick should not “disrespect the flag”.
“I understand 100 percent what he’s doing”. That doesn’t make sense to me. Kaepernick should protest “the right way” by funding scholarships for minorities, donating football equipment to inner-city schools or writing about the problem, Crigger said. So now 50 years later we have a young man saying something that was kind of taken for granted in our day. “That’s insane. Someone that’s holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us”.
However, Rice appeared to share his sentiment with the Republican nominee Donald Trump, who told KIRO radio in Seattle on Tuesday that the quarterback should “find a country that works better for him”.
“I certainly don’t share the views that Mr. Kaepernick expressed after the game in explaining his reasoning for his actions”, Earnest said. “Let him try, it won’t happen”.
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“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color”, Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. The show of respect, for most adherents, is created to demonstrate gratefulness for a nation that allows them to participate in the fun and games that sports represent – and for many Americans it is a basic show of patriotism loyalty to the United States. I have to stand up for people that are oppressed.
