President Trump led the outcry against the protesters, slurring any player who takes a knee as a “son of a bitch.” The league owners panicked. One result was that Kaepernick — one of the most talented quarterbacks in a league that suffers a shortage of skilled players in that position — found himself locked out of a job.
Ava DuVernay enlightens us about important events that have occurred on August 28.
ESPN will not air the national anthem before “Monday Night Football” games this season. ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro stated, “we generally have not broadcasted the anthem and I don’t think that will change this year.”
Continued controversy from a sitting president who continues to incite division within the NFL has not stopped black players from exercising there right to protest and freedom of speech. In Miami, Kenny Stills and two other Dolphins players protested during the anthem before their 26-24 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Colin Kaepernick later tweeted encouragement to Stills and other NFL players that had the courage. Photo Credit: CNN
Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins furthered the conversation on the NFL protest without even speaking. Last week during the franchises media availability, Jenkins explained to journalists the reasoning behind why athletes like Colin Kaepernick chose to take a knee, by writing it on giant white poster boards. On the poster board where statistics about the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, police brutality and NFL player’s efforts to thwart unsatisfactory practices in the justice system. Jenkins does this one week after the Eagles were supposed to visit the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. When Trump disinvited Philadelphia from the
Mill was given a two- to four-year prison sentence in November 2017 for violating his probation stemming from a 2008 gun and drug case.
VH1 did it again with a star-studded lineup of stars honoring their mothers and instrumental women in their lives during the third annual “Dear Mama: A Love Letter to Moms.”
Amnesty International gave former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice that launched a sports movement and might have cost him his job.
Notes, quotes and things; picked up on the run from coast-to-coast and all the stops in between and beyond.
These athletes rallied for the masses in order to enforce equality
I’m Happy the Philadelphia Eagles Won the Super Bowl, but I Refused to Watch It. This season, however, I took a complete break from watching the NFL and, as a result, missed the game entirely.
2017 was a great year for Sports
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California honored free agent quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick at their annual Bill of Rights Awards Gala, according to Foxnews.