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It Made," published just before his death, he related his own feelings about the national anthem, as it played at the beginning of his first World Series game: "There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper … a symbolic hero to my people. … The band struck up the National Anthem. The flag billowed in the wind. It should have been a glorious moment for me as the stirring words of the National Anthem poured from the stands. Perhaps, it was, but then again…. "As I write this 20 years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made." Colin Kaepernick stands in a proud tradition. For choosing to speak out, he has been shut out. The collusion of the owners not only violates antitrust laws; it tramples basic constitutional protections. The NFL owners should be called to account, not Kaepernick. WI
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port of Donald Trump. Last year, Kaepernick's teammates voted to give him the annual award for "inspirational and courageous play." No, Kaepernick is being treated as a pariah by the private club of white owners who are terrified of controversy. They clean up big time from public subsidies — tax breaks, public contributions to stadiums, television contracts — and they tremble at anything that might disrupt the gravy train. They want to make an example of Kaepernick as a way of teaching the rest of the players a lesson, hoping to keep plantation-like control of their players. Kaepernick stands in a proud history of African-American athletes who have used their prominence to protest racism at home and unjust wars abroad. They have chosen to speak out at the height of their powers and in their prime money-making years. Often they have paid a high price personally, in their careers, their finances, their stature.
And yet in the end, their sacrifice helped make this country better. Muhammad Ali opposed the Vietnam War and was prosecuted for refusing to be inducted into the armed forces, stripped of his title and barred from fighting. He lost some of the best years of his boxing life, but his protest helped build the antiwar movement that eventually brought that tragic and misbegotten war to an end. Curt Flood, an all-star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, refused to be bought and sold "like a slave." His protest and litigation cost him much of his career, but it broke open the owners' control of players, opened the way to free agency and transformed baseball. Jackie Robinson broke open the racial barrier in baseball. He endured seasons of racial insult, on and off the field. His remarkable skill and character transformed baseball, and helped spur the civil rights movement. He joined Dr. King in the demonstrations for civil rights. In his autobiography, "I Never Had
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of police brutality with new rules about police departments getting war weapons, and shattered the dreams of immigrant young people who desperately need DACA forbearance to stay in this country. More than that, his messages about shrinking the size of government are discordant with the message about government stepping up to help people in Houston, Louisiana, and now Mississippi. In the weeks after Harvey, it is imperative for us to examine public policy toward those affected by our nation's tragedies. Cutting the size of some government agencies decreases our ability to respond to disasters like Harvey. WI
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fected. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was not wrong, he was dead wrong in voting against relief for those who survived Hurricane Sandy. And now, he is revealed as a craven hypocrite when he wants more for Texans than he offered to residents of New Jersey. Either we will step up in crises or we will not. And if we step up, we need to step up for everyone. Harvey did not discriminate. It swallowed the expanse of mansions, even gated ones, as well as the small apartments of uninsured working class folks. Only one in 6 of those affected by Harvey were insured because premi-
um costs rose quickly, forcing some families to pay as much as $2,000 a year, even as they earned relatively low wages. If we step up, we have to step up for everyone, not just those with sterling documentation and the right insurance. What is our nation of a nation? Do we believe that all should be protected from catastrophe? How do we implement such beliefs? And with a tone-deaf narcissist leading our nation, how do we transcend our terribly flawed leadership to adhere to our ideals? 45 has been wreaking havoc in our federal government. He has rescinded provisions that help workers, increased the possibility
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MOORE from Page 26 jor component of both the 1965 ESEA and ESSA as the 2015 reauthorization is parental involvement. We must be the change we want to see. Laws are an opportunity to hold our leaders accountable. We must hold ourselves accountable for the academic success of our children. At the 1979 Amandla Festival in support of relief and humanitarian aid to Southern Africa, Dick Gregory, in his 15-minute introduction of Bob Marley and the Wailers, stated: "We the decent people of this planet must stand up and say to the rest of them inhumane, cruel beast that we are not going to tolerate it no more. And then they'll say, 'what are you gon' do about it?' If I don't do nothing, but get out of my bed every day and look myself in the face in the quietness of my living room and say, "I'm not gon' tolerate it no more, I'm not gon' tolerate
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