Kaepernick’s decision to sit through anthem scrutinized

I will not criticize him for it.”At Kutztown University, football coach Jim Clements sees Kaepernick’s protest as disrespectful”. Today, as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr. Rickey’s drama and that I was only a principal actor.

There is nothing uncomplicated about this. Kaepernick has said he will keep protesting the national anthem until significant chance is made.

It is an affront.

R&B singer Chris Brown has also publicly stood behind the San Francisco 49ers quarterback. Kaepernick has been sitting out all of the preseason games so far.

Two days after he refused to stand for the “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the 49ers’ preseason loss to the Packers, Kaepernick insists whatever the consequences, he will know “I did what’s right”.

Before the August 26 preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, Kaepernick sat on the bench during the national anthem, saying he refused to stand for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. I’ll continue to sit. I think it’s a awful thing. At the same time, Halloran invited Kaepernick of going through a day of training at the local police academy. Now, any time you talk about antigun violence, people run around screaming about they don’t want their Second Amendment rights to be infringed upon – the same way John Carlos and tommy smith raised their black glove fists at the ’68 Olympics in Mexico, the same way Muhammad Ali refused to fight for a war that was just as insane. And they fight for freedom. That’s something that this country stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. “And that’s not happening”. That includes protecting the players such as Kaepernick and his teammates. One can imagine some fans doing the same in support – and that in turn perhaps leading to fighting in the stands.

Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett created a stir at the start of training camp when he implored his peers to make social statements and criticized big-name National Football League players for their relative silence in comparison to the outspoken stars of the NBA and even WNBA, who have made their voices heard. The NFL said in a statement said, “Players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem”. He said Saturday he still hasn’t decided on his starting quarterback in a competition between Kaepernick and Blaine Gabbert, who took over the job from Kaepernick last November and has vowed to be the No. 1 again. The 49ers might have cut him, anyway, but if they do now, it will be seen as related to the anthem controversy. They said they don’t respect his actions while they do recognize his right to free speech.

Before practice began Sunday, Kaepernick spoke on the field with Dr. Harry Edwards, a team consultant and noted African-American sociologist and civil-rights activist. “The cause he was going for, fine by me – but don’t do it in that fashion”, Isner said. And Jackie Robinson said i can not stand and sing the anthem, I can not salute the flag, i know that I’m a black man in a white world. The number one issue in this country for me is black homicide, young black men killing young black men.

“But, I think the rest of America has the right to hope he sits on his butt the rest of the season”. It is John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising fists at the 1968 Olympics. It is WNBA players wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. He later explained that he did so to protest the oppression of people of color in the United States.

Kaepernick (left) and Trump (right) are at loggerheads.

“I’m going to let his words speak for himself, it was his choice”, Fisher said of Kaepernick.

It’s amusing how protest can get so easily misconstrued as un-American when more often it is quite the opposite – an exercise of freedom that is so much a part of our heritage.