{"id":2566,"date":"2024-03-17T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2024-03-17T15:19:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T15:19:16","slug":"colin-kaepernick-is-the-most-important-athlete-of-the-decade-reports-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick is \u201cThe Most Important Athlete of the Decade,\u201d reports USA Today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent USA Today sports reporter, Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL player, is the \u201cmost important athlete of the decade.\u201d<br \/>\nAn anchor compliments Kaepernick<br \/>\nChris Korman praised Colin Kaepernick for his historic National Anthem protests, in which he took a knee during the patriotic hymn to express his disapproval of racial unfairness in the United States, on the USA Today \u201cFor The Win\u201d website.<\/p>\n<p>According to Korman, Kaepernick\u2019s protests \u201cworked as intended,\u201d which makes him \u201cimportant.\u201d<br \/>\nIn order to get us to talk about the topics he wanted us to talk about\u2014police violence against black men and the systemic racism that supports it and shapes so much of how we live and have always lived in America\u2014he first sat and then knelt during the playing of the national anthem, according to Korman.<\/p>\n<p>Korman Is Not Correct<br \/>\nBut Korman is incorrect to present this case. The Black Lives Matter campaign was already underway by the time Kaepernick started kneeling. Therefore, the problems that he claimed to be attempting to bring to light were previously known to everyone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent USA Today sports reporter, Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL player, is the \u201cmost important athlete of the decade.\u201d An anchor compliments Kaepernick Chris&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}