NFL Players' Kneeling: A Stand Against Injustice

Football players in the National Football League (NFL) are kneeling during the national anthem to protest many things such as police brutality. Colin Kaepernick kneeled to bring notice to the fatal shootings of black men over the summer. Such as the Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings earlier this year. The article talks about how new rules about kneeling are being discussed, but they have not been finalised or even really planned out. The football players are kneeling to show us that what is happening in the world is wrong.
The American Revolution was a war between Britain and their thirteen colonies, the war started because the thirteen colonies, who were also called America, were mad at britain because they were taxing them without

representation and they were seizing their land. The war began when the british shot into a crowd of protesters killing 5 colonists, this event was known as the Boston Massacre.
The dictionary says the a revolution is “an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed” (Revolution). The kneeling during the anthem is a revolution because they are trying to change what is happening with the police and the what happened over the summer. The American Revolution is a revolution because the colonists were trying to overthrow the British government.
These events relate to each other because they both started because of an unfair or unjust shooting that happened. For the British it was the Boston Massacre, and for the players it was the unfair shooting of black men by the police this summer. They both believed that how they were being treated was unfair; the colonists thought how they were being taxed without representation was unfair, and the players think how the police are targeting blacks especially black men is unfair.
This current event is important because it shows us how football players are using their fame to try and make a change in the world. I believe that what the players are doing will make a difference because even if people don’t like what they are doing they are still going to talk about it. If they talk about it then they will still be giving the protest thought which is what the players want, for people to think about what’s happening in the country.