Trump accused Kapnik.

　　"The one who should be raised should be kicked out of the court immediately! The bosses should fire him!" In September 2017, US President Donald Trump called in a speech.

　　Trump may not know that the object of his accusations-the NFL black athlete Colin Kapnick, had already terminated the contract with the 49 people in San Francisco and was unemployed.

　　Perhaps at that time, the Kapnik in his memory was still the black athlete who knelt on one knee with a stern and firm look when the Stars and Stripes rose-that was Kapnik in 2016, and was also Kappnik remembered by the world.

　　Kapnik, he entered the public view in silence.

Data map: Kapnik.

　　In the first three NFL preseason games conducted this season, whenever the American national anthem played before the game, he sat silently on the bench, instead of sticking his chest like other people to pay attention. Kapnik expressed his dissatisfaction with the police's successive abuse of violence against blacks, which was his silent protest.

　　Gradually, people smelled the unusual hidden in this silence, and began to interpret his silence.

　　"When this country is still oppressing black people and other people of color, I will not pay tribute to the flag of this country." Kapnik voluntarily expressed his position in such a sentence.

Profile picture: Kapnik kneeling to protest.

　　Finally, when the national anthem sounded before the fourth preseason game, "Butterfly shakes its wings".

　　When Kapnik kneels on one knee in the national anthem, he may not realize that the moment when his knee touches the ground, it will be the most important "touchdown" in his life. Later, the American people called Kapnik's kneeling this time as a "national anthem demonstration".

　　"Seriously, why didn't he go to find a better country. Let him go, he couldn't find it at all." "If someone doesn't like the United States, don't need to pray for change, just get out the fastest." The National Anthem After the demonstrations, Trump, who had no presidential title at that time, publicly accused Kapnik.

　　However, after this, not only did Kapenik stop, but an ally joined him. First, teammate Reed knelt down with Kapnik in the national anthem, hoping to use it to protest the police's continuous brutality and domestic racial discrimination. Then beside them, there gradually appeared other figures on one knee.

NFL players participated in the protest.

　　Kapnik immediately became a controversial figure and has been at the forefront of public opinion for a long time thereafter. But in fact, throughout the 2016 season, the protests brought by Kapnik were very small. Only a few black players participated in the form of kneeling on one knee, holding hands or raising fists.

　　But people remembered Kapnik’s name, as well as his appeal and expression.

　　So in 2017, Kapnik's "wings" waving before rolled up the first storm. When the violence in Charlottesville happened and Trump, who had become the US president, made the above remarks, in September of that year, large-scale protests appeared in the NFL coalition.

　　Both the players and the team owners became protesters, and the way they used it was to kneel on one knee when the national flag was raised and the national anthem sounded. This seems to convey a voice to the outside world: Although Kapnik is no longer in this league, his most important things are left in this field.

The NFL team owner and the players protested together.

　　However, at this time, the American society's evaluation of Kapnik was still mixed. Trump and many opponents interpreted his behavior as "unpatriotic."

　　Even in 2018, when Nike announced that Kapnik became the cover character of the 30th anniversary of its "Just do it" slogan, Trump stood up and accused Nike of "delivering a terrible message". Upload videos of burning Nike products on the Internet to express dissatisfaction.

　　But two years later, when a similar flame burned from a pair of shoes and a T-shirt to the streets of more than 140 cities in the United States, few people questioned the necessity of Kapnik’s actions that year.

Opponents burned Nike products.

　　"I can't breathe! Don't kill me!"

　　On May 25 this year, the African-American man Freud was pressed to the ground by three American policemen, one of whom was a white policeman who put his knee on his neck. After 7 minutes, Freud was suspected of being in a coma. After being taken to the hospital, he was eventually killed.

　　The outbreak of police abuse of violence by black suspects and the cruel treatment suffered by George Freud instantly detonated the time bomb that has been buried in American society.

　　In 2016, LeBron James, a basketball superstar who had supported Kapenik, released the news on social media for the first time. He wrote: "Do you not understand now? Do you think this is not clear enough? Be clear. As I said before, we are being persecuted!" James wrote the above words on social media, but also worthy Such a picture:

Screenshot of James social media.

　　In the picture, there is a contrast between the police who murdered Freud and Kapnick kneeling and protesting. James marked in the picture: This is the reason...

　　Two knees, one on the grass and one on the neck. When you need to choose one to defend, it is not difficult to make a decision.

　　Subsequently, in the public's constant "explosion" emotions and rapidly spreading waves, Trump accused two years ago of "a proverb". However, Nike's "terrible message" is actually just an expression of racial equality.

The American people knelt on one knee to protest.

　　So in the increasingly loud protests, people kneeled on squares, streets, and government gates on one knee; then, they even appeared in many states of the United States, and the police who originally stood opposite the protesters also kneeled on one knee, calling for For fair pictures of blacks; at Freud’s funeral, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey chose the same way of silence.

　　When this storm roared, countless different faces and skin colors of "Capenik" also appeared in other places outside the United States-the Premier League Liverpool Club will kneel on one knee during the training on June 2, Chelsea made similar moves in solidarity with Freud.

The Liverpool team kneeled on one knee.

　　Earlier than Kapnik "rolling out of the United States", his resistance was first accepted by the world.

　　At the moment, Kapnik’s declaration became louder: “When this country is still oppressing black people and other people of color, I will not pay tribute to this country’s flag. (End)