Sharing Life and Christ

For those who may not know, Colin Kapernick, backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, has been kneeling to protest during the National Anthem before football games on account of the African Americans killed by police and affected by other injustices.  He has created quite the backlash among many, while being supported in various ways as well.   The typical argument against Kap goes like this:  “How dare he kneel during a song and in front of a flag that symbolize what the men and women of the Armed Forces fought to defend and the freedom they secured for all of us in America!”   Interestingly, Kapernick’s protest has nothing to do with the military.  He is protesting a system believed to be unfairly bent towards upholding certain Americans’ values at the expense of others.  It seems for him that the American flag does not first and foremost embody the great sacrifices of military personnel, but rather our stars and stripes serve to remind him...