The U.S. squad – one of the few American national sports teams that gathers regularly – will play its first home match since Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, sat on the bench during the anthem before an NFL preseason game August 26.
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“Quite honestly, being gay, I have stood with my hand over my heart during the national anthem and felt like I haven’t had my liberties protected, so I can absolutely sympathize with that feeling”, she told ESPNW. We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.
Kaepernick, of the San Francisco 49ers, has refused to stand when the anthem is played to protest racial injustice. However, she confirmed that it was the same type of action that Colin Kaepernick took part in before his preseason game.
She added: “Keep the conversation going”.
“I don’t want to put no pressure on no one”, Lane said. It’s really important for us to understand and to be smart about what we are doing and how we handle our business. She won a Gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics, and was part of the victorious U.S. team that won the 2015 women’s World Cup.
Now it’s a soccer star – US women’s team player Megan Rapinoe.
Rapinoe is not the first athlete to show solidarity with the sixth-year quarterback.
Lane said he plans to continue his protest all season – something Eric Reid Sr. hopes his son, 49ers safety Eric Reid, does after also joining Kaepernick’s protest.
The U.S. national team goalkeeper isn’t planning to join Megan Rapinoe and Colin Kaepernick in protesting the national anthem, but he does believe in what they are fighting for.
I have great respect for Randy Smith who has given some valuable advice in many of his sports pieces over the years, but he has gotten the one on Colin Kaepernick all wrong.
On Thursday, Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane didn’t stand for the anthem before the Seahawks’ final preseason game against the Raiders. “And it’s not happening for all right now”, Kaepernick told the media.
“The media painted this as I’m anti-American”.
“He’s following his constitutional right to make a statement”, Obama said during a press conference in Hangzhou, China, when asked about the quarterback.
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He said he meant to donate the first $1 million he earns this year to different organizations that help communities, although he did not name specific ones. LGBT people are white, African American, Jewish, gentile, Asian, Native American and atheist, you get the idea. “There’s definitely some issues in America that a lot of people are starting to recognize”.
