{"id":48934,"date":"2016-09-01T00:19:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48934"},"modified":"2016-10-19T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:28:04","slug":"colin-kaepernicks-true-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48934","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/a>
\n2016-08-30<\/p>\n

Adam Serwer<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n

The San Francisco<\/a> quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner<\/a>\u2014and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a>\u2013\u2013scholar, activist, and black radical\u2013\u2013first noticed The Veil that separated him from his white classmates in the mostly white town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts<\/a>. He and his classmates were exchanging \u201cvisiting cards,\u201d invitations to visit one another\u2019s homes, when a white girl refused his.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows,\u201d Du Bois wrote in his acclaimed essay collection, The Souls of Black Folk<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThat sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Du Bois\u2019s upbringing as a black child was, in some ways blessed, particularly for the time. He received a good education, he had white teachers who believed in his potential. Yet despite growing up in a white town, far from the bloody, violent turmoil of the post-emancipation<\/a> South, he learned from childhood that he was different, that a wall yet lay between himself and the other white children. We cannot know who Du Bois might have been had he been raised in a mostly black town or gone to a mostly black school. What we do know is that growing up around white people, with opportunities other blacks did not have, did not make white supremacy invisible to him\u2013\u2013on the contrary,the intimacy of his early relationships with whites helped shape who he was.<\/p>\n

Ever since 49ers<\/a> quarterback Colin Kaepernick<\/a> declared that he would refuse to stand for the national anthem<\/a>, to refuse \u201cto show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” particularly in the form of police brutality, he has drawn personal and bitter responses accusing him of disrespecting the country, police officers, and military service members. Donald Trump<\/a>, the Republican candidate for president campaigning on a slogan implying America has ceased to be great and whose broadsides against \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d delight his fans, urged Kaepernick to leave the country for expressing the incorrect political views…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin The Atlantic 2016-08-30 Adam Serwer, Senior Editor The San Francisco quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner\u2014and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived. It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois\u2013\u2013scholar, activist, and black radical\u2013\u2013first noticed The Veil that separated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[5207,24878,8952,24908,7222,6001],"class_list":["post-48934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adam-serwer","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-football","tag-rodney-harrison","tag-sports","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48935,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions\/48935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}