“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.
Female athletes already have taken bold, unequivocal stances. The WNBA players who pushed back against police criticism and league fines were impressive not only in their persistence, but also in how unified they were, even across racial boundaries.