Al Sharpton to the NFL: 'Give Colin Kaepernick a job back'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy at George Floyd's funeral in Houston on Tuesday, and during it asked the NFL to "give Colin Kaepernick a job back."
Sharpton spoke about the NFL’s apology to its players for not listening about their concerns with racial injustice. The apology, however, never included a mention of Kaepernick, who was trying to get everyone’s attention four years ago about the issues of police brutality against minorities in our society, Sharpton pointed out.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“The head of the NFL said, ‘Yeah, maybe we was wrong. Football players, maybe they did have the right to peacefully protest,'” he said. “Well, don’t apologize. Give Colin Kaepernick a job back. Don’t come with some empty apology. Take a man’s livelihood. Strip a man down of his talents. And four years later, when the whole world is marching, all of a sudden you go and do a FaceTime, talk about you sorry. Minimizing the value of our lives."
“You sorry? Then repay the damage you did to the career you stood down, ’cause when Colin took a knee, he took it for the families in this building,” Sharpton added. “And we don’t want an apology. We want him repaired.”
The topic of Kaepernick getting a job back in the NFL has resurfaced in the wake of Floyd's death and protests against police brutality -- something Kaepernick took a knee to protest during the national anthem four years ago.
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According to ProFootballTalk, nothing has happened in regard to a potential Kaepernick return, and no teams have shown interest in seeing what he can do yet.