Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy III made an excellent point Tuesday on Twitter. He asked the NFL to apologize to quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and called for the New England Patriots to sign him.
Kaepernick has been out of the league since 2016. He was the leader of the national anthem protests, which were an effort to start a conversation about racial injustice and police brutality in America. The result seemed to be that NFL owners blackballed him from the league. In response to Kaepernick’s protests, the NFL suggested in the rulebook that players stand during the anthem.
With the death of George Floyd, the conversation about racial injustice has been ubiquitous.