This is an essay I wrote in 2018 for Anthropology News regarding my views on the power of sports to change American ideals. It begins:
“When the now former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt for the national anthem in a preseason game in the summer of 2016, he set off far reaching political waves. He empowered other players to follow suit and provoked the sitting United States president to lash out at kneeling players. But Kaepernick also challenged all us to reconsider the role our most powerful professional sport plays in our politics and in the politics of our workplaces.”
