Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s New Day on CNN to defend NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the National Anthem, comedian and former CNN host D.L. Hughley griped about veterans and white athletes who have criticized Kaepernick but have not condemned “brutality” against black Americans, and charged that their “protest” is a protest “in agreement of” violence.
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Diab also “frequently retweets Black Lives Matter supporter and newspaper columnist Shaun King on race-related issues”, Fox News added. “He can not understand what I face and what other young black men and black people face, or people of color face, on a [daily] basis”, Harrison, who is now a TV analyst, said on SportsTalk790.
“Football is an escape, and black people oftentimes don’t get an escape from reality”, he said.
Amos concluded his lengthy open letter, writing: “Colin I am sorry for the endorsement deals you may lose and the dip in jersey sales, but please know you will NEVER lose what these men and women and their families have lost”.
Those who don’t stand up for Kaepernick’s right to sit are the only ones guilty of being un-American here. None of those people will come out and say anything when people are being brutalized.
I’m not going to hold that against Kaepernick because I so admire what he is doing.
“Last point I want people to know”, Harrison tweeted. But to say that the USA military fights “for freedom… liberty and justice” is not accurate. But what happened to that. years ago when he was making little money?
One of those central values is freedom of expression, which Colin Kaepernick has every right to evoke.
“See, that’s my thing”. They have to answer questions.
We celebrate Muhammad Ali not just for his talent, but for taking two seismic events – civil rights and Vietnam – and giving people the courage to find their voice about both. “If I’m him and I feel strongly about something, I call a players” only meeting, I get in front of the team and say, “Hey guys, this is what my thoughts are, you know, because I know there are a lot of kind of backdoor conversations, a lot of side conversations’ and stuff like that”.
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Diggs, the father of a biracial son, slammed Harrison’s assumption that Kaepernick couldn’t understand the hardships of African Americans. Back in 2012, Teresa Kaepernick explained, “When we adopted him, I bought some books from the library on raising children from another race, but what it all came down to was common sense more than anything”.
