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In 2016, former quarterback Colin Kaepernick started sitting and then kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality against African Americans. It cost him his NFL career. In his 2018 Senate campaign against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the El Paso Democrat, said there “was nothing more American” than the right of NFL players to protest against inequities …

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