Tag: National Football Leauge

  • 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…