Tag: football

  • The San Francisco 49ers quarterback on bucking expectations, riding out the haters and how he does it all with a healthy dose of style

  • Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem NFL News National Football League 2016-08-27 Steve Wyche, NFL Media Reporter SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings…

  • Colin Kaepernick Protests National Anthem Over Treatment of Minorities ABC News 2016-08-27 Michael Edison Hayden San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem during a preseason game Friday out of protest against America’s treatment of “black people and people of color.” Kaepernick told NFL media he made his own decision…

  • Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests The American Prospect 2014-11-01 Kevin Cokley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology; Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites. Whether…

  • UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.…

  • Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights The Huffington Post 2012-09-12 Michelangelo Signorile Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is going “full steam ahead” after his battle with Maryland legislator C. Emmett Burns Jr., who last week wrote a letter calling on the team’s owner to silence Ayanbadejo regarding his public advocacy…

  • Standing Up at an Early Age The New York Times 2012-09-14 Adam Himmelsbach Views on Gay Rights of Ravens’ Ayanbadejo Are Rooted in Upbringing In recent weeks, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has been praised in many quarters for supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage. His stance is not new, but it reached a wider…

  • To tackle racism, we must tackle ignorance The Times of London 2012-02-14 John Barnes It’s not about football, it’s about destroying modern myths of colour, race and superiority   In 1987 a black friend of mine went into a shop to buy a coat. He asked the assistant if they had it in black and…

  • Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7 Edited by: Daniel Burdsey, Senior Lecturer of Sociology Chelsea School of Sport University of Brighton As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established…