“And every year, in the lobby of every motel, the same thing always happened, and it only got worse as I got older and taller”. I mean people are dying in vain because this country isn’t holding their end of the bargain up as far as -you know- giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody. Kaepernick, who’s biracial and was adopted by white parents, said he is “not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color”.
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Kaepernick decided not to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner in protest before a preseason game last week.
“I acknowledge his right to do that. But I don’t respect the motivation or the action”, Harbaugh said at his news conference Monday at the University of MI.
“I understand 100 percent what he’s doing. It’s his method of action that I take exception to”, Harbaugh posted on Twitter. “Like, one of the best”.
“Kaepernick criticized presidential candidates Donald Trump (“openly racist”) and Hillary Clinton;” called out police brutality against minorities; and pushed for accountability of public officials.
MI coach Jim Harbaugh said he did not respect the method of protest used by his former pupil, Colin Kaepernick, to make a statement on social injustice.
Meanwhile, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in California has invited Kaepernick to experience their basic police training sessions and to have an “open dialogue” with police officers about their experiences.
Kelly said Tuesday that Kaepernick will play in the team’s final exhibition game Thursday night in San Diego after missing the first two preseason games with a exhausted shoulder. Kaepernick did not formally address the media to rehash Sunday’s quotes. The Green Bay Packers signal-caller expressed a different outlook than Kap. It was his first action of the exhibition season after missing the first two games with a sore throwing shoulder.
MI opens the season Saturday when it hosts Hawaii.
“Colin Kaepernick is an example to the children and he is a bad example”.
That decision is a mistake. “Offensively I think we were all like that”.
The Arizona Cardinals’ Bruce Arians was among several coaches to debate Kaepernick’s protest.
“I disagree. I wholeheartedly disagree”.
“I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country”, he said.
“He could have picked a better platform and a better way to do it”, Sherman told the Seattle Times. Edwards is a sociologist and African-American activist who helped plan the “Olympic Project for Human Rights” before the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took the medal podium barefoot and bowed their heads through the anthem, raising gloved fists in a black power protest. People are losing their life, and you don’t have the common courtesy to do that. “Both athletes are in fine company of others who have shown their patriotism in unconventional ways”, he said, recounting a number of protests by athletes, veterans and others.
Complaining like a petulant juvenile that things aren’t ideal – and pledging to remain seated until they are – does not constitute a daring and principled protest against what’s wrong with the country today.
“I think you respect the opinions of everybody in the room and respect their right to express their opinion”, Harbaugh told reporters.
Now, Kaepernick is prepared for whatever comes next. I can not salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. Later, however, he reversed course.
The news outlets can’t seem to keep Kaepernick’s name out of their mouths and it is causing a lot of negative buzz for the 49ers organization. “There definitely is racism in this country”.
“The fact that it has blown up like this, I think it’s a good thing”.
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While his teammates all stood, he made a statement all right.
