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The Kaepernick Debate - INSIDE THE NFL
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Sixty-one years after Rosa Parks became an everlasting symbol of the civil rights movement, NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks says that he sees another symbol possibly emerging.
During an interview with USA Today this week, Brooks compared Kaepernick's protest of the national anthem to Parks' decision not to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
"It's a lofty name, but it's not a stretch," Brooks said of comparing the two.