Why I stand – or rather choose to sit – with Colin Kaepernick

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By Patrick O’Neill- co-founder of the Fr. Charles Mulholland Catholic Worker House, an intentional, pacifist community that provides hospitality to people in crisis. Reposted from News Observer.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is teaching us all an important civics lesson: Freedom is not free. The term, usually reserved to support war, can also be applied to the price Kaepernick is paying for his decision not to stand and sing the national anthem at NFL games as a protest of police killings of African-Americans. Continue reading “Why I stand – or rather choose to sit – with Colin Kaepernick”