Jaweed Kaleem wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled “In the ‘land of the free,’ are you free to sit out the national anthem”, to discuss Colin Kaepernick not rising for the national anthem. People recently noticed professional football player, Colin Kaepernick, does not stand and put his hand over his heart, per tradition, during the national anthem. This intern caused a major debate, with a split between Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter. The author explains why Kaepernick does not stand by quoting him, saying, “To me, this is something that has to change and when there is a significant change and I feel like the flag represents what it is supposed to represent and this country is representing people the way its supposed
