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Jamal Bryant will stay defending NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick and here is why
During an interview with the Christian Post, Dr. Jamal Bryant shared that he feels indebted to the football player turned activist.
“I think it’s so important because [what’s] been sold to so many black boys is the only way they can get out of the hood is to go through a sport. Somehow or another this translates [that] you go to sports for success and abdicate your social responsibility,” Bryant said. “And so for a player who is economically comfortable, who is in fact at a meteoric rise, for this to make that kind of rift for his conscience, it didn’t have to.”
“The fact of the matter is Colin wasn’t playing for the Chicago Bears or the Detroit Lions or the Baltimore Ravens. He was in San Francisco where there are not a lot of instances of police brutality,” Bryant told CP. “For him to take Black Lives Matter from the fringes right to the kitchen table of America, I feel indebted as a part of that movement. Somebody was courageous enough to make that kind of stand.”
