The Cauldron · Aug 29, 2016
Colin Kaepernick Is The American Dream
In sitting during the national anthem, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is standing for a whole lot of things.
“Yes. I’ll continue to sit. I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.”
In a topsy-turvy society like ours, where down often is presented as up, wrong is packaged as right, state-excused-guilt masquerades as exoneration, and conformity is advertised as the ultimate freedom, it’s fitting Colin Kaepernick made the boldest stand of any male athlete in recent memory … by sitting.