Football great Colin Kaepernick’s take-a-knee gesture is now famous as a rallying cry around the world against police brutality, racial injustices, and the killing of citizen George Floyd.
But a recent Black man killed by a White cop has unwittingly catapulted Kaepernick’s fight against police brutality and the killing of unarmed Black men and women to the top of daily newscasts, and front and center in endless social media posts.
Chauvin pressed his knee for eight minutes, 46 seconds on the neck of George Floyd, 46 — an unarmed Minneapolis Black man who died after pleading that he could not breathe.
Since the George Floyd killing, much has been made about the link between two kinds of kneelings – Kap’s kneeling to save lives, the cop’s kneeing to end one.
Perhaps Kaepernick’s heroic kneeling might lead us to substitute the Black National Anthem to be sung at the opening of each NFL game instead of the traditional National Anthem.
