And, it appears, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is taking his message a step further in the form of his wardrobe.
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The 49ers quarterback was booed before the game but was joined by team-mate Eric Reid in kneeling during the anthem.
To the kneeling Kaepernick’s left stood Nate Boyer, a former Green Beret who went to training camp with the Seahawks a year ago as a long snapper. Kaepernick refuses to apologize and on Thursday he was also criticized for wearing socks showing pigs wearing police hats. Boyer had written a piece in the Army Times about being open to Kaepernick’s protest even if he was at first angered.
“There are already plenty people fighting fire with fire, and it’s just not helping anyone or anything”. “No, I didn’t tell anyone I was going to do it”.
“I talked to him today before the game”. Kaepernick said last week his refusal to stand during the anthem was in protest of racial injustice and minority oppression.
Colin Kaepernick again protested during the playing of the national anthem. On Thursday, he pledged to donate $1m (£753,000) to community organisations.
After the director of a national police union ripped Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback issued a statement on Instagram.
Racial tensions are mounting in the U.S., where a string of recent police killings and subsequent revenge killings have sparked protests across the nation.
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“It doesn’t seem like he’s thought through or bothered to educate himself about the way [law enforcement officers] are out there trying to do a very hard job, and the vast majority of the time get the job done right”, Johnson said, according to the newspaper. We were wondering of a way, people said that it was disrespectful for him to sit down, so he was able to decide what if we took a knee instead of sitting?
