Day 61

Fresh Start_61: Ladies and Gentleman, may you please rise  
With the NBA season starting up on Wednesday, Colin Kaepernick is back in the news again. And no, Kaep is not transitioning over to basketball, but his protest possibly is. The NBA’s Commissioner Adam Silver is hopeful that all of his players will stand for the National Anthem during the entirety of the season. The protest would really take off if a guy with the persona like Lebron James, Steph Curry, Carmelo Anthony took the stand if they would kneel during the anthem.

The NBA has been the catalyst to ramp up the conversation of social issues, not any other league. Some of the players will take a stand in my opinion, but I am not sure if an all-star player would make the stand. Most of my reasoning behind saying this is because of what Wade, Lebron, Chris Paul, and Melo did at the ESPY’s with the topic of police brutality. This might be the second act for many players in discussing the issue, and get the conversation going to another level, due to the magnitude of the league and the impact it has on society.

The NFL has been the league that hasn’t a loud players to speak out against issues and has penalized players for participating in the past, so that is why this protest has hind in the back seat for the majority of the season. Even with the leading of the protest now starting in the league, the protest has had a muzzle on it from a national prospective. I’m not saying that this protest has no meaning, because it definitely is an issue that needs to change, no matter what side of the argument you fall on. As I have said before, the way the protest was shaped and executed was poor and not effective enough. Another reason that the protest has been faint, is because of the presidential election and the lack of support the issue has gotten by both major candidates. Again, it doesn’t matter what political party you are, the person you support needs to have a plan of action for the issue and it needs to work. The quicker the disputes and shootings get dealt with, the quicker this protest goes by the boards.
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