While the anthem played before the Monday Night Football game, Kaepernick continued to kneel.
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LOS ANGELES | “South Park” has taken on the controversy over San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest. Kaepernick has the right to not stand for the Anthem, but he has no right to complain about being oppressed when he is making millions of dollars to throw around a ball. “I think half these kids don’t even know what they’re doing, first of all, and what they’re protesting about”, Legare said.
“When there’s significant change and I feel like [the American] flag represents what it’s supposed to represent, [and that] this country is representing people the way that it’s supposed to, I’ll stand”, Kaepernick said on August 28. Kaepernick kneeling does nothing to solve any problems.
Dennis W. Montoya, the league’s state director in New Mexico, said the group’s emphasis on American pride is connected with a long fight by Latinos to prove they belong in this country. “But, if anyone chooses not to, then that’s their Constitutional right and we can not discipline by law”, Binienda said.
Poor Bear said he started looking at the anthem differently after he took a group of Oglala Lakota students to a minor-league hockey game previous year.
Of course, when you search his name on Google, his refusal to sit during the national anthem is among the top three organic search results (and 60% of all clicks go to those top three results). His act of protest followed several high-profile fatal police shootings of black men this summer – including the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in July.
Webster sent a letter to the Damascus community reading in part, “It is important that we listen to understand all perspectives and that we engage one another in a respectful way”.
“Ultimately it’s to bring awareness and make people realize what’s really going on in this country”, Kaepernick told reporters after first sitting for the anthem.
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“Some of (them) choose to stand for the same idea that would cause them to kneel. And he kind of got my side of it, as well, so I think it was a good meeting”. She wrote this for an essay contest marking National Constitution Day for a government and economics class.
