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Chicago Bears security Jordan Lucas acknowledged he “110 percent” plans on kneeling at some level of the national anthem of 2020 NFL video games to bid police brutality and discrimination against dusky folks.
“In 2016, my rookie yr, as many of you’re going to be ready to perhaps bet, I became once stricken to kneel,” Lucas acknowledged, per Cam Ellis of NBC Sports. “I did no longer are making an try to lose my yell on the team. I did no longer are making an try to be looked at in a different way, staunch by the entrance office or the coaches staunch because I did no longer dangle a popularity. I did no longer in spite of the entire lot dangle a space on the team. I did no longer are making an try to lose anything. I staunch obtained there.
“But I assume comparatively heaps of folks are seeing now that it be notable bigger than the flag and disrespecting the flag. We’re no longer disrespecting the flag, nor the defense power. I assume folks are in spite of the entire lot initiating to admire that now.”
Lucas signed a one-yr contract with the Bears this offseason after splitting his first four NFL seasons with the Miami Dolphins and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Colin Kaepernick started peacefully protesting at some level of the national anthem in 2016, making a national controversy. Some praised him for standing against racial discrimination, while others criticized his derive of bid.
President Donald Trump known as gamers who bid at some level of the anthem “son[s] of bitch[es]” and known as on them to be fired, leading to smartly-liked protests in September 2017. Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones acknowledged in October 2017 that these protesting at some level of the anthem would no longer play for his team. The NFL also obtained brushback from gamers in 2018 when the league attempted to prevent gamers from kneeling at some level of the anthem.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admitted the league became once wicked for its coping with of mild protests in a video that posted Friday.
“We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Dusky Folk,” Goodell acknowledged. “We, the NFL, admit we had been wicked for no longer listening to NFL gamers earlier and support all to divulge out and peacefully bid. We, the NFL, take into consideration Dusky Lives Matter.”
Goodell’s video got here after lots of smartly-known particular person gamers, including Tremendous Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, known as on the league to particular feel sorry about for its coping with of previous protests and condemn systemic racism. Kaepernick became once no longer talked about by name.
