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Local fans react about 49ers quarterback sitting during National Anthem

Tony Alberts
August 30, 2016

Colin Kaepernick plans to sit through the national anthem for as long as he feels is appropriate and until he sees major change in America, specifically when it comes to race relations.

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Earnest said he was “confident” that Obama was aware of the issue, but said he hadn’t spoken to the president directly about Kaepernick’s protest.

Kaepernick was widely criticized, by both other athletes and fans, for his decision.

Sherman added Kaepernick’s protest is, in some ways, similar to Muhammad Ali’s decision to not serve in the military after he was drafted during the Vietnam War. He’s a teammate and we respect him as a person. Polite tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview Monday. They don’t care about you. “For him doing it in that way really irked me”.

Hannity began the segment by calling Kaepernick a “spoiled brat, out of touch, super rich athlete”, and then praised the US for overcoming the institutional racism that it put in place for two centuries. Millennials have been accused of being the least patriotic of any generation. Fewer Millennials

MTV found 92 percent of Millennials support freedom of expression. There’s things we can do to hold them more accountable. “But I don’t respect the motivation or the action”, Harbaugh said at his press conference Monday at the University of MI.

As Kaepernick stated to reporters on Sunday, “I’ll continue to sit”.

“I personally decided I just can’t stand for what this represents right now”, said Kaepernick. To me, this is something that has to change.

“There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people”.

The NFL released a statement Saturday saying it encourages, but does not require, players to stand during the national anthem.

Brees has some valid points, and is commenting on Kaepernick’s choice with more tact than most others.

The police union invited Kaepernick or anyone else from the league to visit the San Francisco police academy to build communication and understanding about the profession.

“I listened to him and he makes all the sense in the world”. Many people suggested if he doesn’t like the USA enough to stand, he should leave the country.

Kaepernick insists, however, that he meant no disrespect toward service members.

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Rookie New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo, for instance, said, “I’d be disappointed if one of our guys chose not to stand”. They fight for the people. That’s something that this country stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all.

Colin Kaepernick sat during the National Anthem last Friday night