The Protest begun by Kap last year has exploded and is not spreading as a result of the incendiary remarks by President Donald Trump on Friday at a campaign rally in Alabama, where he said, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he’s fired’?”
And as expected the NFL players took to twitter. Stephen Curry of the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors stated that he decided to decline the White House invitation, which Trump retracted the invitation on tweet. Then the Champ, King James, Lebron James, came to Curry’s defense with a smack down tweet in which he called 45 a “bum.” Lebron took to Twitter with a video.
Since the NFL and NFL team owners have posted messaged denouncing the divisive words of the President.
Last night, Bruce Maxwell, the Oakland Athletics catcher, took his knee during the anthem making him the first major league baseball player,
This morning in London players and owners of the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars took to their knees and clung arms during the national anthem in protest.
Colin Kaepernick’s mom fired back on Twitter saying, “Guess that makes me a proud bitch!”
NFL team owners and those of them who have donated and supported Trump are in the spotlight. Jemele Hill of ESPN was right.
Posted: 9/24/17
