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CNN.com posted a story about the protest some NFL players have against the National Anthem and why it’s so important and no surprise that black athletes throughout American history have expressed a complicated relationship with the anthem and the flag for which it plays.

“I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world.”

This may sound like Colin Kaepernick,but these are the words of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues, a pioneer and civil rights activist, writing in his 1972 autobiography, “I Never Had It Made.”

Read the full story here at CNN.com 

 

To Stand or to kneel  was originally published on tlcnaptown.com