it s a perennial feature of american life since the dawn of the country, but i d say the events of 2014 were a big part of it. that s the year a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown in ferguson, missouri. that results in huge protests in that city, but also across the country and those protests was part of what inspired the then quarterback of the san francisco 49ers, colin kaepernick, to remain seated during the national anthem during the 2016 preseason. he explained quote, i m 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 official and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. there are bodies in the street, people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. kaepernick started getting bad backlash for sitting including from a former player named nate boyar. kaepernick reached out to him and boyar suggested taking a
kaepernick s kneeling really was this kind of seismic social and political event, right, it has all sorts of cascade effects. all of a sudden now this thing that s been in everyone s household across the country, comes the awkward chatter, the national anthem, the sports casters, and donald trump, and we ve seen several rounds now, i think of racial justice protest and backlash, racial justice protests and backlashes. we re going through one of the backlashes now with this attack on critical race theory. as someone, i think so much of your work is about basically critically encountering race through the work you do, i m curious what you make of the backlash? oh, gosh, i think it s ridiculous. it s pedestrian. i think it s also pretty expected. it s in the continuum of the idea that progress can be stopped, right. it may be slowed down, but it can never be thwarted, and i saw
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we collaborated in that way, and through that he was able to speak and express himself! as we showed in that little clip, he has white parents. adoptive parents. yes. a universe that s predominantly white and is kind of working through what his own identity is, and you kind of get a sense of this incredible arc of this person who has been on this journey from a young age. it s remarkable to think where he started and where he is now. how did that boy, a biracial kid adopted by white parents move from wisconsin, dairy country to turlock, california, dairy country, predominantly white, three sport athlete, always kind of and when you say three sport athlete, that s something to be said, someone following the rules, staying within an institution, three different ones at a high level. when you re competing at level he s competing at, that s all you re doing. there s no time, like, athletics at that level at the level he