Daily News Columnist Sides With Colin Kaepernick

Shaun King explains why he will also no longer stand for the national anthem.

In this day and social-media age when many people form an opinion based strictly on a tweeted news article’s headline, today’s second dispatch by New York Daily News social justice columnist Shaun King is trouble. The headline for the Aug. 29 op-ed reads: “Why I’ll Never Stand Again for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.”

King begins with a rather strained culinary analogy. But once you get past that, his argument is straightforward, picking up on a July 4 article published by The Root.

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