When Monday Night Football returns Monday, Colin Kaepernick is expected to kneel during the national anthem on what would be his biggest stage to date, furthering a highly visible though mostly silent protest movement among NFL players that the 49ers quarterback started.
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If teams and the National Football League do not support the players’ actions, they need to require that all players behave in a consistent, respectful manner while “on the clock”.
And when we say “mixed-media”, we mean they’ve used a Kaepernick jersey and some duct tape to make a conservative-friendly doormat at the main entrance. “Baseball is a white man’s sport”. “If you don’t want to stand for the national anthem, you can line up over there by the fence and let our military personnel take a few shots at you since they’re taking shots for you”, said the announcer, Pastor Allen Joyner of Sweet Home Baptist Church.
He believes in what he believes in, and as a man of faith, as an American who has rights, who am I to say he’s wrong?
The protests also have provoked anger in some fans who see the gesture as disrespecting the US flag, the military and the nation in general.
“If they don’t have enough respect for you and me, if they don’t have enough respect for their own country. I’m against social injustice”, Marshall told the media after Thursday’s game against the Panthers.
Marcus Peters, a player with the Kansas City Chiefs and two New England Patriots players, Devin McCourty and Martellus Bennett, raised their fists in the air as the anthem played.
The truth may make folks uneasy, said Jones Monday afternoon outside the visitors’ clubhouse at Fenway Park, but he’d rather folks deal with uncomfortable truths than not hear what’s really going on.
Foster said. He added, “That’s the handsome thing about this country is if somebody feels it’s not good enough, they have their right. “(Athletes are) the ones people listen to, we’re the ones people bet on all the time. “But when people that are not of color speak up, it’s their right”. We believe in our military personnel that fight for our freedoms. Jones asked. “It’s supposed to be the Land of the Free, right?”
Four Miami Dolphins players – Arian Foster, Jelani Jenkins, Michael Thomas, and Kenny Stills – knelt as the Star Spangled Banner played.
Meanwhile, Jones is speaking out against the double standard he sees in how people of color are treated when they speak out vs. other noteworthy figures and how athletes are often told to “stick to sports”.
“They say it’s not the time to do this. As long as it’s not infringing on anyone else’s rights we’re okay with that”, Walker added.
“We’re going to let the world know that we are still behind Brother Kaepernick”, Brown told his congregation September 11.
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“You know, you are talking about a major sport, maybe the major sport, and when you see that and it leads to a lot of other things”.
