For most Americans, Sundays in fall mean one thing: football. It means they’ll get a chance to kick back, relax and cut the world off to spend their day watching their favorite team play. But for the past couple weeks, these Sundays have also brought something political:
Protest.
The national anthem protests first came under the national microscope last season when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat for the anthem before his team’s first three preseason games and took a knee for the fourth and final.
Kaepernick began protesting the anthem to not only raise awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to address the social injustices directed toward minorities in the United States.