I don’t see these issues as part of the team’s play calling on the football field – even though players are oftentimes wearing “pink” on their NFL uniforms. Much to their chagrin, the NFL gave focus and presence to Women’s Domestic Violence and Breast Cancer. But there were many who chided Kaepernick for interrupting sports with issues outside of the football arena. It is the same posture we employ when we pray. For this humanitarian genuflection, Kaepernick was vilified and eventually ostracized by the NFL – and America. With his bush flopping in the wind, Kaepernick took a knee to bring much needed attention to the police killings of unarmed blacks. THE AFRICAN AMERICAN: Kaepernick became the bane of the NFL brand.
Knight sang America thru her songs: believing America would live up to her promise. You could hear her songs crooned by Doo Whoopers beneath street corner lamps across America’s Universities of Street Corners. Knight gave meaning and expression to the disillusionment many blacks feel daily about America. Knight is a major contributor to the indigenous American Musical Art form known as R&B. However, it seems both camps will be watching the Super Bowl. Nonetheless, there are just as many who believe Knight has “earned” the right to perform even though they too harbor some kind of resentment. THE AMERICAN AFRICAN: Many people shun the idea that Knight decided to perform the National Anthem.
#GLADYS KNIGHT NATIONAL ANTHEM COLIN KAEPERNICK TV#
As a result of this “double consciousness,” Du Bois adds, “African Americans suffer from a damaged self-image shaped by the perceptions and treatment of white people.” Knight and Kaepernick evince these opposing identities and will superimpose these irreconcilable differences onto our TV screens on Super Bowl Sunday. Du Bois in his classic work, The Souls of Black Folks characterized the black dichotomy as, “twoness”: as an American and as an African two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The famed scholar, Pan Africanist and sociologist, W.E.B.
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