When former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to kneel during the performance of the national anthem to pay homage to black victims of police brutality, closing the gulf between patriotic ideals and the reality of black suffering, he was, predictably, pilloried. Kaepernick was met with the same charges of most every black person -- whether it was Frederick Douglass or Barack Obama, Sojourner Truth or Maxine Waters, Jack Johnson or football player Malcolm Jenkins -- who dared speak out against injustice: that he is un-American, unpatriotic, disrespectful, and ungrateful.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 247
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