Colin Kaepernick Takes a Knee for National Anthem

The 49ers quarterback was joined by teammate Eric Reid kneeling on the sideline to respect the service members honored during military appreciation night in San Diego.

[davidkilamon]

“Why don’t they just peacefully protest?” Well you guys didn’t like this either

[HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

When Americans say they love free speech I laugh. You love it until someone does or says something you disagree with. BOTH the left AND the right.

[Nephew]

There were people losing sleep over this man kneeling😂😂😂

[sdlka]

How poetically tragic. 3 years ago this guy 'took a knee' to protest police brutality against black men (which was in fact the first time I had ever heard of that action). 3 years later, a policeman brutally 'takes a knee' on the neck of a black man for 8 minutes 46 seconds. You can't make this stuff up.

[ifxtalityz]

Colin Kaepernick was ahead of his time. RIP George Floyd, change is coming.

[hisoka]

Opinion: Kaepernick lost his job because he kneeled, but wouldn't have if he brutally beat his girlfriend ☕🐸

[tc]

I love how much easier it is to trigger the right than the left 🤣

[Armanidadoll]

I’m in the 4th episode of his docu series on Netflix and I must say I am proud of him for taking a stand for the black community he gave his career up for what he believed in and for that God will always bless him and he is highly favored Salute to you ✊🏾🖤🤎

[BigGav]

I really don’t get why this was such a big deal. You know how many kids would sit down during the national anthem in school?

[thestonedabbot]

"Black people need to protest peacefully!"

"Not like that!"

[andysanchez]

Was the first athlete to do it while the national anthem was sang and now everyone doing it.

[renegarcia]

I was in the infantry at the time this happened, and I couldn’t help but feel sad that my fellow soldiers didn’t see the point he was tryna make when he kneeled, they really took it personally instead of taking a step back and tryna understand Collins struggles/message and point of view they made him out to be disrespectful and ignorant ! We as Americans are turned against each other very easily, we can’t let the media paint the narrative

[truemiz]

George Floyd couldn’t breathe from a police officer that kneeled on his neck. Colin kneeled in the National Anthem to protest police brutality... if this doesn’t get you in empathetical thought, I don’t know what will

[masyaf]

RIP George Floyd
This is why he knelt.

[booa]

🙏 I remember watching a poem and it went like “I pledge allegiance to your flag of the United States of American and to your republic for witch it stands one nation under god individual for liberty and justice for who? For you? For them? Or for some”

[SirGalahad]

When Colin Kaepernick was taking a Knee for National Anthem and got all this backlash, this rally broke me and any hope for the USA.
I am from Germany. I always get from Americans the question why we don’t show pride? Do we not have pride in what we have achieved? We did saw children together, injected them chemicals and made furniture from their bones. We try to learn from this. And the first lesson is, that pride is shown by action not symbols. We are always skeptical when someone is running around with a symbol to show his pride, but his actions undermine Human Dignity and the Constitution. There is a line between pride and blind nationalism.

Kaepernicks action did not undermine the constitution, it did embrace it!

May and American explain to me how his action was disrespectful, by demanding Human Dignity?

[Akdlol]

This was the peaceful protest. Nobody listened.

[YONAS.REALTOR]

He is a man, who stand for what he belive.

[GlasgowBhoy]

Im not american. But this guy should be looked at as a legend by americans. Extremely brave. Need more people like this guy in the world. Well done!!

[avenero]

3 years later, nothing's changed except that Colin is not in the NFL anymore. This ignorance is sad.

Black lives matter