Why the protest?
Colin Kaepernick has suggested that he will need to see significant progress toward improving social justice and racial equality before he considers ending his national anthem protest.
The San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback initially sat and then kneeled when The Star-Spangled Banner was played before preseason games. He took a knee again ahead of the team’s regular-season opener Monday night.
Kaepernick has become the figurehead for a growing movement around the league and admitted he can foresee a situation whereby he ends his protest, but only if he feels it has had the desired effect.
He has refused to come to terms with his being a Mullato; he defines himself as black.
He lost his starting job to a white man with blonde hair; don't think the other black players in the NFL aren't dogging him because of it.
But, he says, the reason for the protest is a lack of social justice and racial equality but he is unable or unwilling to define those terms.
So, he is kneeling, and sinking, in a rhetorical quicksand of his own making and his professed reasons for kneeling have been reframed by those who hate his protest; they are defining his actions as un-American and being opposition to the military.
There is simply no way America is going to do anything that will even come within a galactic distance of his demand-
because this is a general election season during
which time nothing is done by the gov't.
Kapernick is slowly sinking; he has knelt
and he can't get-up without violating his
publicly professed reasons for the protest.
I am quit amused by all of this and I love the
fact that ESPN and all the other Liberal Sports
Media have been in such full support of his
actions because watching them try to explain
away his eventual boredom with kneeling will
be funny to read about.