The San Francisco 49ers quarterback won’t stand for the national anthem.
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“He’s exercising his constitutional right to make a statement”, he said. “It’s about people having that right to have their voice, and I think it’s cool that Jeremy Lane is doing what he wants to do”.
In a gesture of solidarity with Kaepernick, Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem at a match on Sunday played by her professional team, the Seattle Reign, telling American Soccer Now that she was disgusted by the way Kaepernick has been treated in the media.
Speaking in China after a gathering of leaders of 20 leading economies, Obama said he had no doubt about Kaepernick’s sincerity but acknowledged that the protest was hard for some members of the military and law enforcement to swallow. “We need to have a thoughtful, more two-sided conversation about racial relations in this country”.
Obama approvingly says Kaepernick has generated more national conversation about “issues that need to be talked about”.
“I was in the Navy and I saw men and women bleed and die for this flag”, Uzcategui said. Noting “a long history of sports figures” doing similar acts of protest, Obama also noted “the meaning [the anthem and flag] hold for our men and women in uniform”.
We have the right to agree with Donald Trump’s remark that if Kaepernick doesn’t like the way things are here, he should find a country that works better for him. Mr. King states that, “the anthem does not represent racism or discrimination” and that there is “confusion about the anthem, and that “Mr. Kaepernick misses the point”.
“My late father was a combat veteran”, Pence said.
Kaepernick does not intend his stance to be a criticism of the military.
Kaepernick told reporters on August 28 that while the country had elected a black president “a lot of things haven’t changed”. And that’s something over an eight-year term. I mean, we have a candidate (in Clinton) who’s deleted emails and done things illegally as a presidential candidate. Probably true. National Football League teams long established that any thug, social misfit or felon was welcome if he was not behind bars and could help the team, so why punish a political protester who broke only the laws of common respect and good taste? And even as a backup quarterback, his jersey is now the fifth-best seller at the NFL’s official online store.
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USA soccer star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem Sunday night before the Seattle Reign faced the Chicago Red Stars in what she called “a little nod” to Kaepernick and his stance before a National Women’s League soccer game.
