Something many of us have been cumbersomely carrying round for four years; four long, tension-filled, politically polarized, racially divided years.
I’m sorry we couldn’t get it through our thick heads four years ago that you took a knee not to discredit the military; you took a knee to try to the save the lives of George Floyd and many other unarmed black Americans who have been killed by police since you first knelt during the national anthem in 2016.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL.