Seattle Seahawks Considering Team National Anthem Protest Like Colin Kaepernick On 9/11- Will Fans Burn Their Jerseys Too?
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His stance has gained attention.
“I hope he goes home and really thinks about what he said and how it impacts not just (him) but how it impacts people whose lives are affected by these issues on a daily basis”.
What I find most amusing is that no one seems to care what the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court says about this.
The fact is that many of these so-called patriotic Americans who have been adamant in their efforts to vilify Colin Kaepernick for taking the position he has that they have failed miserably in their efforts to even listen to or consider his position. “People want to know God makes sense in the chaos all around us”. This is important because they’re showing a symbol of solidarity and unity.
“At first, people are ‘Let me see the article, what’s Adam going to talk about, ‘ they’re going to say ‘Oh, Adam’s a black man, he’s talking about white people – Ah, let’s see, let’s see where this is going.’ And it already alters people’s minds”, said Jones. At the time I was angry because it meant that I, sitting immediately next to him, would receive his diploma from the huge pile on the stage and everyone else behind me would receive the wrong one.
The following week at San Diego, a game Kaepernick started on Military Appreciate Night at Qualcomm Stadium, Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner”.
The 49ers’ chief executive officer Jed York has also come to Kaepernick’s defense and has “pledged $1 million from the team’s charitable foundation” to organizations that seek the same change Kaepernick is pursuing, according to ESPN. And I think it just creates more divisiveness, more division. “Try another country, see if they like it better”. A united message, not the person, is the key to change. “They’re out of the loop, because they’re no longer hot copy”. It is his fair right to protest issues that are becoming unfortunately more and more prevalent in this country.
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The gesture, which went largely unnoticed initially, has since been imitated by numerous other National Football League players. “Slaves just weren’t freed by black people”. DuBois, Walter White, (hell, our current president for that matter) and many others were/are biracial Black people. Use this as an opportunity to educate yourself as to why African-American people are so upset over police brutality. “Kaepernick shocked spectators by refusing to stand during the anthem, saying that he did not want to show respect to a nation that discriminated between its people of different races”. It is healthy to discuss the real issues in this country. “But in the major scheme of things, there are things going on right now that people are putting their money and time behind”.
