Colin Kaepernick Explains Why He Sat during National Anthem

Why this matters here

Steve Wyche’s August 27, 2016 NFL.com report quotes Colin Kaepernick explaining that he would not show pride in a flag for a country he said was oppressing Black people and people of color, citing racial injustice and police violence and acknowledging career risk. The Game We Think We Saw uses that attributed explanation to fix what concern the speaker said he was placing in public—without settling whether the protest was wise, fair, or likely to succeed. The interview establishes Kaepernick’s stated meaning; the book separates speaker intent from the contests over meaning that followed.