Inside Eric Reid’s protest: ‘What I aim to do is empower my people’

Oct 16 2018 by SBNation.com

 

“What I aim to do is empower my people.”

On October 7th in Charlotte professional football readied itself to shake once more. Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid knelt during the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner” ahead of his first game back in the NFL. He was signed to the team after six months of being without a roster, and he’d spent the two previous seasons taking a knee in protest of the inequities black people face daily in America. There, on bended knee again, Reid...

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