Loving your country is always cool. Now we see they also get indignant when it expresses itself peacefully. “I see both sides for sure”.
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“I also said I really admire and respect anybody that stands for something and it costs them something, and it cost Colin deeply”.
Kaepernick said he expected criticism when he embarked on his strike of rising for the anthem.
“I’m with it”, Egbosimba said. “I guess where I was coming from was a complete football context”. “He explained himself and I was impressed because he did reach out to me and that shows an amount of respect”. The situation is more than Kaepernick not standing, it is him taking real action to make a difference.
But at the end of the day, it’d be foolish to ignore the reason he’s even protesting in the first place.
WNBA officials released a statement that said the league is proud its players are advocating non-violent solutions to the issues going on throughout the country, but they should comply with the league’s uniform guidelines.
For more, CCTV America’s Jim Spellman reports.
For the record, yes, I do stand when the anthem is played. I mean, to me you’re telling me that my position as a backup quarterback and being quiet is more important than people’s lives. “To me, this is something that has to change”.
Kaepernick was joined by teammate Eric Reid.
Americans who are sports fans likely hear the national anthem 100 times or more each year.
Agree with Kaepernick’s protest or not – and we don’t – it is imperative we recognize Kaepernick, who says he wants to draw attention to how minorities are treated in the United States, is within his right to do so, especially when we all agree that in a free society a free and protected speech is a foundational element. “Not take away from fighting for our country, but keep the focus on what the issues really are”. How do we treat our vets when they come home? People are responding- whether it be in a negative or positive way.
Linebacker Brandon Marshall of the Denver Broncos knelt for the anthem in the first regular season game September 8. But I don’t do it for America.
Sunday, members of the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs all staged protests of their own.
Since his protest, the response towards Kaepernick has showed the hypocrisy of public opinions about the Black Lives Matter movement.
What is interesting is the same people who are offended by these players kneeling aren’t saying anything about the six other players from three different teams raising their fists in solidarity with Kaepernick. It’s okay to do what Dilfer claims he did during his playing career, which is to care deeply about an issue but not bring it into his workplace, but he has no right to say that his way is the only way to go about giving voice to an issue.
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The clip, embedded below, shows the townspeople of South Park at a football stadium, singing the National Anthem, but with new lyrics created to mock San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
