Was Colin Kaepernick wrong for kneeling for the National Anthem? Many sports fans all across America discuss this at their Sunday football parties. Americans around the world try to find the reasoning behind kneeling some saying it's disrespectful towards soldiers fighting for our country others saying he was exercising his first amendment rights. As we argue over his actions we seem to lose sight of what kaepernick was really protesting for. Media coverage and news articles of Colin Kaepernick tended towards the use of bias point of views combined with historical facts to determine the reasoning behind Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the National Anthem.

Last football season Colin Kaepernick and his teammate,Eric Reid decided to kneel during …show more content…
To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder,” said Colin Kaepernick. In the articles, Update: Taking a Stand by Not Standing for National Anthem a First Amendment Right and Why Colin Kaepernick is wrong: Its not a black-and-white issue the writer highlights bias point of views in stating their position on whether or not Colin Kaepernick had an legitimate reason for kneeling. Stuart Warner, used Kaepernick's famous statement, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder,” which emphasized the daily struggle of living in …show more content…
Stuart uses historical facts such as: “The national anthem wasn’t played before every American sporting event until World War II. Even after that, some teams saved it only for special occasions until we had a surge of jingoism during the Vietnam War,” and “Only after the U.S. military threw millions of dollars at American pro leagues to put on patriotic shows were the players asked to join in the pregame ceremonies.” Likewise the writer for New York Post used,”During the Trayvon Martin killing calamity in Florida, NBA players wore hoodies to symbolize the stereotyping that inspired Martin’s assailant, George Zimmerman. Yet in the months before and after that NBA protest, crimes commonly were committed — and still are — by those who tried to obscure their identities beneath hoodies.” The facts on the issues created when Kaepernick kneeled focus on the truth of the racial boundary we have in our