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from Part II - Feeling Ignored
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2020
Although football has stood for quintessential American values – competition, sportsmanship, teamwork – and afforded prized cultural bounties, including pageantry, tradition, celebrity, etc., things have gone poorly in the Age of Trump. “Sports fans should never condone players who do not stand proud for their National Anthem or their Country,” Trump tweeted in September of 2017. “NFL should change policy,” he commanded.1 The President was referring to the mini-revolution begun by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on August 14, 2016, when he remained seated during the anthem to protest police brutality. “People of color have been targeted by police,” Kaepernick explained, and “they are put in place by the government. So that’s something that this country has to change.”2
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