About a week ago, a Salt Lake Tribune columnist, Gordon Monson, presented the scenario of what would happen if a Utah Jazz player kneeled during the National Anthem. There he said “the action-reaction would be fascinating and compelling to watch.” But I’m here to say that I believe these players would be supported here in Utah.
In 1846, long before there was #SwatLakeCity, Temple Square, or even a farm in Utah, Mormon Pioneers in Illinois did something that many people screaming at Colin Kaepernick wish he would have done: LEAVE.