San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick (7) and Eric Reid (35) kneel during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. Kaepernick has since begun kneeling during the anthem instead of sitting and has been joined by several other National Football League players and scores of high school and college players who have picked up the cause. ” … Ultimately he made a decision that he wanted to talk about it”. Y’all inspire me with what you did, following that and standing up. “But don’t stonewall it because you don’t agree with how they’re doing it. …”
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If the 49ers coach ever puts him in a game, it would not displease me if he broke every bone in his body the first time he gets sacked. These are your brothers. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way”. I see your strength, I see your power. And that’s something you have to speak into each other as well.You’re going to be the best player out there. Because he’s played with players whose families go through and experience this. “You have players that are trying to take a stand and trying to be aware of social issues, and trying to make a stand and increase people’s awareness and put a spotlight on it, and they’re being ignored. This matters. Everything you do matters”, Kaepernick said.
“I had to come support y’all because of the same way y’all took a stand, and still with me, I have to come out here and stand with y’all”.
“They shot and killed a man and walked around like it wasn’t a human being”, Kapernick told the San Francisco Chronicle.
“My choice is, I like this country, I respect our flag, and I don’t see all the atrocities going on in this country that people say are going on”.
Following the speech Castlemont lost to King’s Academy, 49-44. Were you in the room at that time? “I’m here with you”.
During the preseason, Kaepernick came under fire for kneeling during the national anthem, a protest meant to call attention to the racial inequalities and violence against minorities plaguing the United States. I think specifically about after the Rams win, when you beat the Rams, and he was talking about injustice in America and I believe some of the players were uncomfortable with that.
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Castlemont seems to have been very proud of the visit and the message.
