GREATEST GENERATIONS
By protesting the treatment of African-Americans, COLIN KAEPERNICK followed the lead of Jesse Owens, Muhammad Ali and the author himself by using his status as an athlete as a weapon in the fight for social justice by KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR Sports Illustrated , December 11, 2017 I have never been prouder to be an American. That might seem like a strange confession in these dark times, when there is so much divisiveness in the country. Every day we are faced with cringe-worthy behavior by our country’s leaders: sexual harassment, enabling hate groups by publicly echoing their messages, the enactment of policies that curtail the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of the nonrich. We who love our country are often left embarrassed, enraged and exhausted. It’s as if some jokester slapped a going out of business sign on our country’s back and scribbled underneath: everything (we stand for) must go. Then why am I so proud of America? Because, to paraphrase w...