Best Of: Colin Kaepernick / Danielle Brooks
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This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, whose entire life took a sharp, unexpected, and very unpleasant turn. And it did take me a while to realize that it's basically because the monkey pressed the button. That's right.
Because the monkey pressed the button. Surprising stories every week, wherever you get your podcasts. From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley in Los Angeles. Today, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, he took a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence and never played in the NFL again.
A decade later, he says the point of that protest is still being missed. We want to stop police killing black people, and the NFL had an issue with that being said. I want people to just take a moment and think about that. Why would that be an issue for anybody to say we want police to stop killing black people? Also actor Danielle Brooks.
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