Sorry. not sorry but you don’t kneel during the anthem. You don’t stomp on the flag. Period. If you want to protest. Go protest. Hold up a sign. Boycott shit. But dont disrespect the flag that has been draped over the coffins of the very people who fought for your rights.
Al Sharpton’s National Action Network helped lead a protest Friday outside the New York headquarters of the National Football League. The demonstration comes in response to the league’s new rules aimed at ending player protests during the playing of the national anthem.
Over a dozen demonstrators appeared outside the midtown Manhattan HQ of the football league, led by members of the National Action Network (NAN), a civil rights organization, The Hill reported.
Some of the small group worse jerseys featuring the name and number of former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick, the NFL player who invented the anthem protest at the start of the 2016 football season.
Protestors taking a knee outside of the @NFL ~ @NationalAction @womensmarch @NAACP @KirstenJohnFoy @TamikaDMallory @JumaaneWilliams, Mark Thompson, @IamRevKev pic.twitter.com/Pq7KWCpdBa
— Rachel Noerdlinger (@rachelnoerd) May 25, 2018
NAN Northeast Regional Director Kirsten John Foy slammed the NFL team owners and President Donald Trump for supposedly quashing the player’s right to protest.
“Our demand…