NAACP President Compares Colin Kaepernick to Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks
Posted on September 9, 2016
Cornell William Brooks, the president of the NAACP, compared Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand during the national anthem at NFL games in 2016 to Rosa Parks’ decision not to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
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