Former NFL player and current NBC Sports commentator Rodney Harrison has offered yet another ill-advised and misguided opinion on Colin Kaepernick protesting the nation anthem.
According to Harrison, Kaepernick should be standing during the anthem because he doesn’t really have anything to protest. He pleaded his case during an interview with SportsTalk 790.
Let him explain (per Complex):
“I just think he’s going about it the wrong way. And if he really wants to make change, sitting his butt down on the bench, that’s not going to change [anything]. That’s going to get people very upset, and he has to understand that. If you think you’re sitting against the national anthem, well, a lot of people really served before his time and are now trying to give him the freedoms and the liberties and the opportunities he has to be able to make the money that he has and the ability to speak and have a voice.”
Hold on, he’s not finished. Harrison went on to say.
“I’m a black man, and Colin Kaepernick, he’s not black. He cannot understand what I face and what other young black men and black people face or people of color face on an every single [day] basis when you walk in the grocery store and you might have $2000 or $3000 in your pocket and you go up into a Foot Locker and they’re looking at you like you’re about to steal something. I don’t think he faces those types of things that we face on a daily basis.”
Sensing that may not have come out the way he wanted it to, he kept talking.
