The boycott people to support the Super Bowl Colin Kaepernick

The boycott people to support the Super Bowl Colin Kaepernick

Although millions of Americans tuning can be seen 53 to play the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl on Sunday night, the New England Patriots, others took to Twitter to announce that the game jumping former NFL quarterback and social justice activist for Colin Kaepernick support. Kaepernick has been an icon of the movement for civil rights simultaneously in 2016, when he stands for the national anthem refused because he did not “for a country in a flag Show pride that oppressed blacks and people of color” could, as he told ESPN. Many Kaepernick supporters argue that he was effectively boycotted NFL teams that do not support his protest. Since he decided his contract after the 2016 season with the San Francisco 49ers from, it was not signed by a new team. A number of celebrities and ordinary people have posted on social media that do not look to protest the treatment of Kaepernick NFL game and to show support for his activism. Great Basketball LeBron James tweeted a photo of himself Kaepernick number 7 jersey to wear, and Ava Duvernay Twitter filmmaker who do not support Kaepernick would look and what they are running as “contempt of NFL Heide + being called all his players. “the NFL is also under fire this year because she chooses the pop band Maroon 5 majority-white way of recruiting the halftime show, although the game will take place in Atlanta – black for its vibrant culture is known. African American rapper Travis Scott and Big Boi are also set to perform. Several artists, including Jay-Z, Rihanna and Thistles B, turned the opportunities related to the show to run to show support Kaepernick below. Cardi B told the Associated Press that, although they have had the opportunity to Ignore mixed feelings, “there is a man who sacrificed his job for us, so that we are standing behind him.” Prominent civil rights activist and writer Shaun, wrote that the king has stopped, not to watch the NFL. “I have not a single football game since the @NFL fundamentally @ Kaepernick7 prohibited pm for a peaceful knee for families who take the affected police violence. I was a super fan and have many friends in the league, but I just can not support a product that has done, “King tweet. However, the game has to offer more nod to the history of civil rights. The Rev. Bernice King, the youngest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a coin flipped the game in addition to the civil rights of US Representative John Lewis and former Ambassador Andrew Young to start. (It was directed by Duvernay) during the coin toss, the song “Glory” from Selma movie in the background. The film, which tells the story of the Selma to Montgomery March 1965 the right to vote, he won an Oscar for best original song for the game. Ironically, though, the rapper Common – who performed “Gloria” with John Legend and played activists for civil rights James Bevel Luther in the film – previously had a photo of themselves with Angela Davis activists and writers wearing a Kaepernick tweeted jersey. “Do you know where I am,” he wrote Common.
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