While Kaepernick said he knew the backlash that might come with his protest, he is keeping his focus on the many athletes and people around the country offering support.
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“It’s more of a conversation about what the next step is, about what the follow-through will be and exchanging ideas of what we can do to help the situation”, Baldwin said of his conversations with Kaepernick.
“I want to make sure that not only am I transparent about what I’m doing but these organisations are transparent about where the money is going as well”, he said. “I knew there were other things that came along with this when I first stood up and spoke about it”. “It’ll be loud and clear why it happened”. “For me, I think one of the things that I’ve noticed throughout this is there’s a lot of racism in this country disguised as patriotism”. And people don’t like to address that.
Qerim said roughly 20 National Football League players have followed Kaepernick’s lead by taking a knee or raising a fist during the playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner”. “It’s not something I haven’t thought about”, Kaepernick continued.
Colin Kaepernick is “willing to die” for the social justice cause he launched three weeks ago by refusing to salute the American flag and national anthem.
Several NFL players have joined Kaepernick in his protest.
Kaepernick also touched on the recent killing of Terrence Crutcher, an Oklahoma man who was gunned down by police, although he wasn’t found with a weapon.
San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick says that he has received death threats over his refusal to stand for the United States national anthem as the killing of an unarmed black man in Oklahoma sparked new public outrage. “I find it very hard that people don’t understand what’s going on”.
Kaepernick condemned Friday’s fatal police shooting in Tulsa of Terence Crutcher. No one tried to resuscitate him. Nothing. They walked around, went about their business and made up lies to cover up the murder they just committed.
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The American footballer player, who started his professional career as the 49ers’ backup start to Alex Smith in the thick of the 2012 season, admitted that he was not spending too much time thinking of any unfortunate outcome from the Colin Kaepernick death threats. “That’s not right and they should be in prison for that”. Kaepernick added that while the organizations have not been determined, a website will be set up so that the public can track how the donations will be spent.
