The 49ers play the Los Angeles Rams on Monday, Sept. 12, but Kaepernick said he would had had no qualms kneeling during the national anthem had San Francisco been scheduled to play Sunday, the 15-year anniversary of 9/11.
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“I don’t necessarily agree with what he is doing”, Goodell said.
“I’ve been very blessed to be in this position and make the kind of money I do, and I have to help these people”. “And we can make this country better, and that they believe I was someone who could help that change”.
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback wouldn’t stand for the anthem at the team’s preseason games, with teammate Eric Reid and Seattle’s Jeremy Lane doing the same. Kaepernick is protesting police brutality, specifically against African-Americans, and the systematic oppression of people of color.
Kaepernick has been at the center of heated controversy following his decision to kneel during the national anthem.
Donald TrumpDonald TrumpCarville: Rigged election claims a “fundamental attack on the country” Trump: Clinton “taught us how vulnerable we are” to hacking Goodell on Kaepernick protest: “We believe very strongly in patriotism in the NFL” MORE said last week, for example, that he should leave America.
“I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed”, Kaepernick told reporters Sunday.
“Again, my thing is, you have to enter onto the scene one way, ” said O’Neal.
– US hockey coach John Tortorella said he’d bench any player who stays seated during the national anthem.
Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall became the latest athlete to kneel during the US national anthem in protest for social justice before his team’s game versus the Carolina Panthers on Thursday.
Like it or not, this is a civil rights movement.
Kaepernick also addressed the influence her religion has had on him on Wednesday.
“I want to thank everyone who has shown me love and support, it truly means a lot”, the quarterback wrote on Instagram on Wednesday. He always said America was an incredible nation.
“Just, [there are] other ways to get your point across”, he continued.
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“When I was fortunate enough to address the team early on, it was just a focus of, ‘As the New York Giants and as a flagship organization in the National Football League, we are going to do things with class, and that is what our organization personifies’. I have great respect for people’s right to believe what they want to believe, and I don’t think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are”.
