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Rishard Matthews: 'I plan to kneel until the President apologizes'

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Tennessee Titans receiver Rishard Matthews was one of many NFL players that felt personally attacked by President Donald Trump's comments against the NFL and its protesting players, most notably the "son of a bitch" reference, and he now plans to use his platform to advance the protest.

"I plan to kneel until the president apologizes for the comments that he made because I felt like those were very disrespectful comments that he made," Matthews said on ESPN's NFL Live Tuesday. "The league is made up of I think over 70 percent of African Americans so the people that would be kneeling for this cause would be African Americans.