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Hyde: How will you react now when athletes kneel during the national anthem? | Commentary

We’ve not yet come to the hard question. We’re still in the moment at this painful intersection of injustice, double standards and righteous anger.

So University of Miami coaches, players and administrators, including school president Julio Frenk, knelt in silence Tuesday on the practice football field for eight minutes and 49 seconds, the time it took for George Floyd to die under a Minneapolis policeman’s knee.

So corporate CEOs from Apple to Johnson & Johnson have been at the front of the line condemning the recent murders of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and pledging to help social change.