A couple years ago Lebron James criticized president Trump on a podcast (I think he also called him a bum on twitter) and a Fox News host attacked him for it, most notably telling him to 'shut up and dribble':
https://youtu.be/8sNWpmR14W4?t=78So Lebron produced a documentary on showtime about how athletes over the decades have used their platform to fight against things like violence and racism.
I agree you can use your personal platform probably,,, but on the field while playing football, please do not use it to remind us of your opinions. I have a lot of causes close to my self also but I would never mix it up with my football playing or whatever. It does of course depend on the event itself perhaps. I would not play at a stadium or if my owner was a racist for example.
Why wouldn't they use it in stadiums or during the game? Kneeling at the game against police brutality is the best way to attract attention to it, if Kap only did that from a tweet or something and said something about it, would you be talking about it years after the fact? Would it get the attention it got from all around the world like from me who is not even American? Of course not.
All players in all leagues have a right to voice their problems with the world as long as those problems are literally life and death. Sure do not kneel because you think taxes are too high, that would be silly, but we are talking about cops killing black people with absolutely no reason at all, George Floyd for example died for no reason at all, that cop just kneed his neck for too long and that's it, not even needed to do that, you can wear shirts, kneel, speak up, yell, decline to sing the anthem, do whatever you can without hurting anyone to voice your issues on your platform.
