The timing is suspicious. Why didn't he do this when the Niners were in the Super Bowl? Instead it's right about the time he knows his career's ending.
Nonetheless, this is one of the most profound political statements of any athlete in a long time. The last major pro sports athlete to sit out the national anthem, I believe, was Mahmoud Adbul Rauf (formerly Chris Jackson).
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"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
