Dear black NFL players, don't let yourselves be silenced | Kara Brown

The NFL is a machine that cannot function without you, now is the time to make it serve you

On Tuesday, the National Football League announced a new policy to prevent players from protesting during the national anthem. Teams will now be fined if players kneel on the field during the anthem and any player who refuses to stand will be allowed to remain in the locker room. The decision comes after Colin Kaepernick began kneeling in 2016 during the Star Spangled Banner in protest of police brutality against black Americans.

The protests caught on in 2017 in Kaepernick’s absence from the league (he asserts in an ongoing lawsuit that he was blackballed for his actions) and were spread across NFL teams, as well as the WNBA, professional soccer player Megan Rapinoe and college and high school athletes around the country.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2GO3sqM