Amid protests, social unrest
that is yet. We’ll figure that out. But we want to do it all together. We want everybody to feel a part of it. We want everybody to have a right to make their own decisions about what they want to do. And we’ll go from there. Everybody sees what’s going on out there in the sports world and what everybody is talking about. So for me it’s not about one single gesture.
“If the guys want to create a gesture or figure it out, we’ll figure it out. We will address those issues. My goal is to keep the conversation moving, the conversation going. Talking to the right people, getting in front of the right people, making a stand for kinda what we believe in — whether you’re black, white, indifferent. I think it’s for everybody to come on board and figure everything out.”
Derrick Rose, the first mainstream athlete to wear an “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirt after Eric Garner was choked to death at the hands of a Staten Island police officer, said he supports Kaepernick’s right to protest. He added that the Knicks have not discussed their own plans.
“Just the issue is people are dying. That’s the issue,” Rose said. “I feel like everybody is entitled to their own opinion and whatever they do. They are entitled to that. But at the same time just see the backlash that he gets from it, that people get from it that have this platform — but I respect it. He believes in something and he’s going for it so I respect it.” CHRIS SWEDA/ CHICAGO TRIBUNE)