By Duane Brown
This past July, when I wrote for Sports Illustrated’s MMQB, I had no way of knowing what was to come a few weeks later. While many of us — sports figures and ordinary people across the country — were ready, willing and able to speak out against injustice, Colin Kaepernick was compelled to do something else entirely.
In sitting down during the national anthem (and later kneeling), he has helped to spark a movement; a movement that I intend to further; a movement which has been a long time coming; a movement that will only end when, collectively, we start to listen to one another and empathize with those who we assume that we share little in common.