On september 1st, 2016, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to use his platform and protest police brutality by kneeling down during the national anthem. The reasoning for doing this was because there were many cases of young African American males getting killed or beaten by police officers around the country and protesting racial injustice. Colins first gesture of protest was sitting during the national anthem but later changed it to kneeling, he was joined by team Eric Reid, and this was the two’s way to protest. There were two big sides to this protest. There were people who agreed with what Colin Kaepernick was doing was fighting for human rights and what he was doing was for the people. People thought what he was doing was a peaceful protest and just fighting for civil rights. The other side strongly disagreed with what Colin was doing and they saw it as disrespect towards the American Flag and the veterans who served or lost their lives fighting for this country. The media really came after Colin Kaepernick after his peaceful protest, media sources like Fox news made Colin seem as if he was the worst person on the planet. The media turned what he was peacefully protesting for and that was for social injustice. Not long after kneeling during the national anthem, Colin didn’t have a job. Let me remind you that he led the San Francisco 49ers to a 11-4-1 record and a super bowl appearance. He was a great quarterback but due to what Colin was fighting for and what he was passionate about, he got blackballed by NFL owners. There was a whole argument between people who thought Colin was still capable of being in the league and the other side disagreed because Colin was kneeling during the national anthem. Colin was fully capable of being either a starter or even a backup quarterback in today’s league. Goodell apologized to Kaepernick, saying the league should have listened to the quarterback’s reasons for kneeling sooner. “I wish we had paid attention to what you were kneeling about and what you were trying to draw attention to before, To this day Colin still isn’t an NFL quarterback but he still fights for social injustice and using his platform for the greater good.