{"id":49100,"date":"2016-09-14T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49100"},"modified":"2016-09-14T21:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:17:29","slug":"colin-kaepernick-and-the-question-of-who-gets-to-be-called-a-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49100","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick and the Question of Who Gets to Be Called a \u2018Patriot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick and the Question of Who Gets to Be Called a \u2018Patriot\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

First Words<\/a>
\nThe New York Times Magazine<\/a>
\n2016-09-12<\/p>\n

Wesley Morris<\/strong><\/a>, Critic-At-Large<\/p>\n

Citizenship is citizenship, until appearances get in the way. The world now knows, for instance, that Colin Kaepernick<\/a>, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, is protesting racial injustice \u2014 all because of a routine photo, taken during the singing of the national anthem<\/a> before a preseason game. The photographer, Jennifer Lee Chan<\/a>, tweeted the image last month, writing, \u201cThis team formation for the national anthem is not Jeff Fisher<\/a>-approved.\u201d Fisher is the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, who, in an episode of the reality football show \u201cHard Knocks<\/a>,\u201d told his team that standing for the anthem was sacrosanct: \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to realize how lucky you are.\u201d Yet here was Kaepernick, sitting down.<\/p>\n

Kaepernick\u2019s sitting was, it emerged, a stance. Two days later, he took reporters\u2019 questions, including one about whether he was concerned that his actions could be taken as an indictment of law enforcement. His answer had teeth. \u201cThere is police brutality \u2014 people of color have been targeted by police,\u201d he said. Then: \u201cYou can become a cop in six months and don\u2019t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That\u2019s insane. Someone that\u2019s holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one rejoinder to the unconditional gratitude \u2014 the compulsory expression of thankfulness for a nation that prides itself on freedom of expression \u2014 that the Jeff Fishers of the world demand. If you\u2019re a black man, as Kaepernick is, your ambivalence about patriotic rituals may be a way of asking the same question Fisher raised: How lucky are<\/em> we, exactly?…<\/p>\n

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

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