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The NFL Unified A Year Too Late

NFL players kneel after Trump's insult.

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Trump has been making outrageous comments for years, but recently he has offended many NFL players by calling the players SOBs. Trump words were sparked up by the recent protesting during the national anthem.

On Sept. 22, Trump gave a speech in Alabama according to The Guardian. This is where he made a personal attack on the NFL players. Trump challenged the NFL league owners to fire anyone who participated in the kneeling.

"Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” Trump said.

Then once Trump said this, the players continued to kneel in unison. This kneeling was a form of protest against the president and unison with the league. Although this was a peaceful and positive form of protest.... we can't forget that Colin Kaepernick did the same thing a year ago.

Kaepernick is a quarterback who was signed to the San Francisco 49ers. Last year Kaepernick decided to kneel during the national anthem, because he was fed up with the brutality that black men and women are suffering.

So it wasn't the brutality, the constant racism, the white supremacist shouting racist views in Charlottesville. They united and protested because Trump insulted them.

They left Kaepernick alone by himself, when he protested last year. But now that it's someone that is attacking majority of the league, it's an issue.

How can you stand for one thing and ignore the other known issues. The players were afraid to loose their benefits when Kaepernick protested, but when the NFL allowed the kneeling because Trump's words came for the league directly, then the players were all for it.

It would have been better than to not kneel at all, if the players couldn't realise the real problem and the real injustices.


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