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'The feelings that I have when I see that flag and hear that song and the hope that I know it instils in a lot of people worldwide - I choose to stand for that reason and there's nothing wrong with that. LeBron James: Colin Kaepernick owed an apology by NFL.Colin Kaepernick accuses NFL of 'blackballing' Eric Reid.

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Colin Kaepernick: Free agent says he is fit and ready to play.I respect him doing that and I would stand next to him if he did that. 'He actually asked if I would take a knee with him. He kind of said right then and there, 'that's what I'm going to do'. 'He thought it was actually more powerful than sitting. 'And I said if you're committed to not standing - which he said he was - I think the only logical solution or gesture, in my opinion, would be to take a knee. Kaepernick has not played since leaving the 49ers at the end of the 2016 season You're shoulder to shoulder trying to complete a task, complete a mission - win the game. You go out on that field, you play with those guys. 'I said being alongside your team-mates is the most important thing. And ironically if you choose to just stop sitting on the bench and all of a sudden you're standing for the anthem, there's going to be a whole lot of people that are very upset that you didn't stick to your guns and you didn't see this thing through just because there was a big reaction. 'I thought about it for a minute and I said, 'look, there's nothing you can do.' There's no gesture here that's going to be perfect. People have this misconception that because we all do everything in uniform when it comes to a mission overseas that we all think the same.

We come from all walks of life, all shapes and sizes, colours, political beliefs, religious beliefs. There's 20m of us - there's a ton of veterans in this country. 'The military is the most diverse microcosm in America, I think. 'When he reached out and wanted to meet and just talk, at first I was a little nervous because I thought, is this a publicity stunt? Why's he doing this? Is he going to use the fact that I'm a soldier and say, 'oh look, the military supports me because this one guy does'?Д«oyer emerged in 2012 as the starting long snapper for Texas Longhorns The flag, the anthem itself, the symbols of America based on what we've seen and done in life.

We just had opposing experiences, opposing emotions, opposing reactions to what people say, what happens in this country. 'We didn't even have opposing opinions necessarily. It's very important - you want people to listen to you, you've got to listen to them,' he said. It helped me understand that he cared enough to listen as well. 'Colin reaching out after he read the open letter, it really did a lot for me. The letter got much more attention than Boyer expected and within days, Kaepernick's publicist rang him. He also wrote overcoming racism in the US would be a 'slow process' and explained why the national anthem meant so much to him.

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'When I went back and actually listened to his first full 18-minute interview in the locker room and heard about why he was doing what he was doing, but also that he had a respect for the military and it wasn't about the military in any way, it wasn't even really about the flag or the anthem.Д®ric Reid and Kaepernick kneel on the sideline during the anthem, as Boyer stands before the 49ers game in San Diego But I wasn't listening to what he was talking about. 'Even though I was a huge 49ers fan and a Colin Kaepernick fan, I was disappointed. I'm going to have a different feeling about those colours and when that flag is raised. 'My relationship with the American flag, with the national anthem - those things are very special to me, because I've served in the military and I've carried a casket draped in an American flag with my best friend in it. 'When I saw Colin sitting on the bench during the national anthem and I read a headline and saw some pictures, I made a snap judgement based on my experiences,' Boyer told Sky correspondent Greg Milam in Los Angeles. Kaepernick talks with Boyer on the day he took a knee for the first timeДЄn army veteran, who had witnessed the atrocities of the conflict in Darfur in 2004 before going on to tour Iraq and Afghanistan, Boyer was instrumental in Kaepernick's decision to go from sitting to taking a knee.

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