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High School Football, Kaepernick and the Anthem

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The MMQB talked to coaches and students from across the country about their decisions to stand or to kneel, their motivations, and the reactions they’ve gotten

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What’s the price for a black man life?
I check the toe tag, not one zero in sight
I turn the TV on, not one hero in sight
Unless he dribble or he fiddle with mics

CAMDEN, N.J. — Preston Brown sings along as J. Cole’s “January 28th” blares from his car speakers. It’s Saturday morning, three-and-a-half hours before kickoff, and Brown, the head football coach at Camden’s Woodrow Wilson High School, is on his way to pick up team breakfast at a local diner.