The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. says he plans to meet with Philadelphia Eagles players at training camp Tuesday to thank them for their protests last season — and to tell them that’s not enough.
“To capture the culture of that movement they in fact must become themselves very public registered voters,” Jackson said of the National Football League pregame protests, where players knelt or raised fists to protest police violence against people of color. “They can’t just protest in an idle way. They must declare that they are registered voters.”
Jackson singled out players Michael Bennett and Malcolm Jenkins, saying he planned “to thank them for standing up and being young men of dignity.