A very touching moment for Cleveland Browns players

Cleveland Browns players, before a football game, September 24. The knee on the ground is part of the movement started by black sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who brandished in 1968 a glove on the podium of the Mexico City Olympics, five months after the assassination of Martin Luther King

On September 1, 2016, San Francisco 49ers football player Colin Kaepernick, a giant with tattooed arms, kneels down when the American national anthem plays in San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. By refusing to remain standing, hand on heart, as tradition dictates, the quarterback (quarterback) intends to denounce the police violence that is increasing against African-Americans and the impunity enjoyed by law enforcement officials. in the USA. In the middle of the presidential campaign, the candidate Donald Trump judges this execrable attitude and advises him to "find a more suitable country", while republican social networks demand his exclusion from the club and get it.

While kneeling during the hymn, Colin Kaepernick launched an unprecedented protest movement in the history of American sport. He is soon imitated by several Afro-American stars of American football, then supported by glories of basketball and baseball. In August, hundreds of people demonstrate in New York in front of the offices of the National Football League (NFL), claiming that he can play again. On September 22, at a rally in Alabama, Donald Trump, referring to players kneeling in the national anthem, called on the NFL leaders to bring out these "son of the bitch.

In response, on the weekend of September 23 and 24, 150 football players kneel down for The Star Banner. In American football, putting one knee down - to take a knee - serves to suspend the game when a player is injured, in solidarity. But also, according to the Urban Dictionary, to keep the ball, late in the game, to slow down the game. Quebec historian Laurent Turcot, a specialist in recreation and sports, sees him a "diversion" of the classic kneeling