Still, it is not clear, as in the American Football professional League NFL, with anthem of the protests should be handled. A new regulation has been put on ice. But now has turned on US President Trump.
Football player of the San Francisco 49ers at 8. October 2017
US President, Donald Trump got involved via Twitter again in the debate to the anthem protests in the Football professional League. He urged the crackdown and took the League Boss Roger Goodell in a duty: “The 40-million-Dollar-Commissioner has to take a position,” wrote Trump with respect to Goodells annual salary. “For the first Time knees, – a game lock. The second Time, the knees lock out for the entire season, without pay!”
A sign against racism
Two years ago, San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick had knelt as the first NFL professional, as the US national anthem was played. He wanted to set a sign against inequality, racism, and police violence against Black people – and that is a wave. Many athletes, even outside of American football is joined, at the height of the protests alone, there were about 200 Football professionals. Even then, Trump expressed his displeasure and denounced the players as “sons of Bitches”.
Colin Kaepernicks (center) kneeling Protest in October 2016
Still in need for advice
In may, the League announced a new rule that allows NFL players in the coming season, to wait during the playing of the anthem in the locker room. This, however, was set on Thursday. In a joint statement, the NFL and the players Union NFLPA announced that they were working on the correct handling of the anthem debate and the new rules have to a solution is not valid.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistBlack Power in Mexico City
The picture of the two of US-American 200-Meter runners Tommie Smith (2.v.r.) and John Carlos (R.) has become an icon. At the awards ceremony of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, you stretch the fist in the black glove to the top, the sign of the Black-Power movement, which campaigns for political and economic independence of the black population.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fist“No Vietcong ever called me Nigger!”
Closely with Black Power, the Nation of Islam is connected to, the U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X (l.) is a member of. Prominent member of the “Black Muslims” in 1964, world champion boxer Cassius Clay alias Muhammad Ali (R). In 1967, Ali refused military service, because he does not want to be in the Vietnam war. He loses his world title and his Boxing license.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistResistance on the knees
In August 2016, stand with Colin Kaepernick for the American national anthem, which is played before each game, not on. On the contrary, The Quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers knelt down in Protest against racism and police violence against Black people. It came to a head, fueled by the Tweets of the US presidential candidate Trump. In the new season, Kaepernick got a new contract.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistWidth Support
Since the first Kneeling Kaepernicks, many followed his example. Also in the recently launched new NFL season, kneel, player and Official with the national anthem. US President, Trump commented on the behaviour continues to be on Twitter, partly garnished with insults. The challenged, among other things, a response from the basketball player LeBron James: “Our President is an asshole!”
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistA Symbol of tyranny
Years before, Colin Kaepernick of the US anthem denied the respect, did not want to NBA up-basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, when in the hall of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played. The reason is that the Muslim saw in the American flag is a Symbol of tyranny. Stand up therefore, in contrast to his Faith. He was briefly locked down, and prayed from that day on, when the anthem of delivery.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistBlack life matters
After the acquittal of a white US-American, who had shot and killed black Teenager Trayvon Martin, was born in 2013, the “Black Lives Matter”movement. Among others, these include Basketball Superstar LeBron James. In 2014, he was wearing a T-Shirt with the inscription: “I Can Breathe”. Those were the last words of Eric Garner, a Black man choked to death in the chokehold of a white police officer.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistEqual opportunities for all
Six years before the Australian runner Cathy Freeman at the Olympic games in Sydney, is the national heroine, and brings you to parts of the conservative population. In 1994 at the Commonwealth Games Freeman, himself an aboriginal, with the flag of the Australian aborigines on the lap of honour. You want to make on the deprivation of their ethnic group in the society.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistVictims of the policy
He would have been allowed to start, he would have won at least one medal, perhaps even the Olympic Gold. But since the Western world boycotted the Olympics in 1980 after the invasion of Russia in Afghanistan, can watch a German decathlete Guido Kratschmer in Moscow only. Four years later, the Eastern bloc returned the favor with his Boycott of the games of Los Angeles.
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Athlete protests: Diffracted knees, a raised fistAgainst exclusion and oppression
As Feyisa Lilesa at the Olympic Marathon in Rio runs as a Second over the finish line, he lifts the crossed arms, the clenched hands into fists. The Ethiopians would like to say with this gesture, the sense of injustice that the people of the tribe of the Oromo drives in his home. Although they are the largest ethnic group in the country, have politically hard to influence. Protests are violently suppressed.
fab/ust (dpa, sid)