Gianna Farese

             Bennett Left, Kaepernick Right        While the conflicts occurred a year apart; both Colin Kaepernick (quarterback for the 49ers) and Michael Bennett (defensive player for Seattle Seahawks), decided not to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what they deem to be wrong doings against African Americans and minorities in the United States. Bennett began to take a knee after he was, unjustly assaulted at gun point by Las Vegas police officers, for what he believes to be the color of his skin.          Kaepernick chose to take a knee strictly for the rights of African Americans, "I am not going to stand and take pride for a flag in a country that opresses black men and people of color", he encloses to reporters after a game. The NFL released a statement after Kaepernicks protest in 2016, obtained by NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport: "Players are encouraged...

September 5, 2017 These two quotes given by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, both courageous African- American men whom stood up for the rights of blacks, connect morally to Spike Lees script,  Do the Right Thing. Throughout this script Mookie is the main character, and a black boy that works at  Sals Pizzeria . Up until the second to last scene Mookie takes a passives approach towards violence, like Martin Luther King Jr. An example of Mookie doing this is when Buggin Out' makes a scene in Sals Pizzeria over the pictures of only Italians on the wall, instead of joining Buggin Out' in his petition against Sal for "not including the brotherhood" in his resturant, he insist that Buggin Out' leaves and does not return for a week until it all blows over. In the second to last scene, when Radio Raheem is killed by police brutality, Mookie takes a Malcom X approach to violence and throws a garbage can through the pizzeria window as an outlet for his frustration...