With Carson Wentz out for the rest of the season, the winningest team in the NFC has a chance to bring another talented quarterback on board. Colin Kaepernick should be that man.
“Like Muhammad, Colin is a man who stands on his convictions with confidence and courage, undaunted by the personal sacrifices he has had to make to have his message heard.”
Jerry Jones and Robert McNair publicly criticized NFL players for kneeling in opposition to police racism. Now they have to turn over their cell phone and email records to investigators.
In a new grievance, the free agent quarterback and activist says that league executives intentionally blackballed him for inciting protest against police violence.
Reid wrote about kneeling with former teammate Colin Kaepernick and smear campaigns against players who protest violence against Black people in an op-ed for The New York Times.
Filmmaker, activist and former quarterback Byron Hurt has been obsessed with the game of football since he was a 7-year-old pee wee player. But recent events have convinced him to boycott an NFL he calls ”as toxic and racist as this nation’s current president.”
A coalition of advocacy and faith-based groups organized the rally to criticize the league bosses’ refusal to sign the free agent quarterback—which his supporters say is retaliation for his kneeling protests against racist police violence.
“There’s a lot of racial and social injustices in the world that are going on right now,” says Browns safety Jabrill Peppers. “We just decided to take a knee and pray for the people who have been affected and just pray for the world in general.”
The upcoming rally, organized by The People’s Consortium for Human and Civil Rights and advocacy partners, will protest the NFL for refusing to sign the quarterback following his actions against police violence.
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