SAN DIEGO – It gnawed at Eric Reid all week.
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Colin Kaepernick will donate $1 million to communities in need, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback announced Thursday. After the Seahawks game in Oakland, Lane told reporter he supports Kaepernick.
“It’s something that’s been on my mind all week”, Reid said.
“Even though my initial reaction to your protest was one of anger, I’m trying to listen to what you’re saying and why you’re doing it”, Mr Boyer wrote in his letter. “I don’t mean no disrespect toward anybody, but I’m just standing behind what I believe”.
“It’s just ridiculous that the same league that prohibits the Dallas (Cowboys) football club from honoring the slain officers in their community with their uniforms stands silent when Kaepernick is dishonoring police officers with what he’s wearing on the field”, Johnson told USA Today.
“I’m not anti-America [.] I love America”.
Colin Kaepernick is placing his money where his protest is by pledging to give $1 million to charity. It was a meaningful moment for Kaepernick.
49ers tight end Vance McDonald said the controversy surrounding Kaepernick has actually helped unite the team. “And we were talking to him about, how can we get the message back on track?”
Standing to Kaepernick’s left, with his hand over his heart, was former Army Green Beret Nate Boyer, who earned a Bronze Star in Iraq before spending last year’s training camp with the Seahawks as a long snapper.
Boyer stood next to Kaepernick and Reed as they knelt during the anthem prior to the game.
Maybe you don’t like his tactics, feel he is being disrespectful to what this country stands for – or, at least, is supposed to stand for. “That’s how it happened”. Reid said he doesn’t have those same feelings, but there have been things that have struck a nerve.
When asked if he will continue to kneel, Reid said, “I think I will”. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. “But there are people out there that have been dealt with unjustly, and the conversation is worth doing what’s been done”.
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Kaepernick started the game at quarterback, and led the 49ers to a touchdown on the game’s opening series. He later said, “I knew what I was walking into”. He wants to get into the community, and address these issues.
