Penn basketball players protest

This is an interesting article about how most of the Penn men's basketball team is protesting during the playing of the national anthem. It sounds like former Cornell coach Steve Donahue is handling it well.
As an aside, I watched a few women's soccer games at Yale this fall and many of the players on the Harvard women's soccer team also knelt during the playing of the anthem.

I didn't read down to the Why part before the paywall kicked in.

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I didn't read down to the Why part before the paywall kicked in.

I didn't get a paywall myself, but here's where they start talking about why they are doing this:
The backs of all the Penn warmup tops either say EQUALITY or SAY HER NAME. This, Monroe made clear, isn’t a single-issue protest.

“Most guys, their reasons for sitting, there are issues in America that have always been here, that have to do with the way you look, the way you identify,” Monroe said, talking about how a lot of populations in Philadelphia are disadvantaged.
“We’ve had a lot of internal conversations just about how guys have felt in their experience in this country as Black young men,” said Jelani Williams, also a captain. “There are still a lot of people in the prison-industrial complex. The wage gap is still growing every day. There’s a bunch of stuff.

“We see racial gaps in pretty much every aspect of life, whether that be the health care system, education, housing. So for us, it’s about bringing light to the fact that while the anthem says that America stands for freedom and justice and equality for all — the land of the free — we want to highlight the fact that it doesn’t always live up to that. We just want to keep that conversation going, and have everybody understand that’s the way we feel.”

“What I’d tell you is we’ve talked hours and hours, maybe a hundred hours during the pandemic, about this issue,” Donahue said. “They articulate it and they give it great reasons. My thought is, they deserve that freedom of expression. They do it respectfully. I think it’s a personal decision. I’m supportive of them.”

Main Line aint gonna like that. The hell's next, Negroes at Waldron Mercy?!