This whole so-called analysis is flawed and strongly raises questions about the author's very ability to divorce herself from racist notions ingrained into the very  fabric of America by whites. To suggest that any black person, Kaepernik aside, somehow  relinquishes the basic constitutional right to bring attention to the FACT of discrimination that takes the life of black citizens by that black person, regardless of his background, is itself the height of measurement by a "double standard". Moreover, this writer even strains her so-called analysis further by attempting to compare the NFL protest led by CK to the black community's criticism of Betsy DeVos...any one knows that this criticism is based on DeVos's widely held and inaccurate attacks on the public school system in favor of the old 'private school' scheme that his be used to prolong discrimination against blacks all over the country. Get a grip white people and don't be led around by the nose by the likes of 'Don the con'.