- Reid was first player to kneel alongside Kaepernick
- Safety says league continues to rob quarterback of his career
Eric Reid, the first player to kneel alongside Colin Kaepernick in protest at racial injustice, has attacked the NFL for using images of the quarterback in a video campaign.
The NFL is running a season-long campaign entitled “It Takes All Of Us” which the league says aims to promote unity across the US and highlight the fight for social justice. In one of the videos, Alicia Keys performs Lift Every Voice and Sing, widely known as the Black national anthem. The video was shown before Thursday night’s season opener and contains footage of Kaepernick kneeling while a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
2/2 business climate. As such, Roger Goodell uses video of Colin courageously kneeling to legitimize their disingenuous PR while simultaneously perpetuating systemic oppression, that the video he’s using fights against, by continuing to rob Colin of his career. It’s diabolical.
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