Before Colin Kapernick, There Was Toni Smith

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🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 2002 years ago, college basketball player Toni Smith-Thompson turned her back on the American flag during the national anthem. sparking protests, death threats and hate mail. Today, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kapernick is refusing to stand during the national anthem. But 14 years later, the same attacks are still being used against athletes who take political stands. Toni goes through some of them and debunks the worst arguments being made then and now.

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0:00.0	You're going to be. Hello, welcome to the Katie Helper show. I'm your host Katie Helper and I'm joined as always by Gaye Pacheco. Yes hello it's me Gaye Pacheco.
0:25.8	Present. Present. Present.
0:27.3	He's a very good student. Present and clear. Clear and
0:30.8	doing the auditing at the Scientology temple and I'm clear.
0:34.0	I've made it. Clear and present danger.
0:37.0	Carlos Danger, which we'll get to in the second.
0:40.0	Carlos Danger Mouse.
0:41.0	And of course Reggie, our engineer.
0:44.0	Yeah, I'm here.
0:45.0	How you doing guys?
0:46.0	Hey, what's up?
0:48.0	What's up? What's up?
0:49.0	We have a really great show for you guys today.
0:51.0	First of all, we're going to go through some stories, some headlines, that'll be awesome. But then during the second half
0:56.0	we're going to speak to someone pretty amazing. So you guys may have heard of this
0:59.9	Colin Capernic story. As you know, he is a quarterback for the 49ers.
1:07.2	This is so far in for me, like to even talk about, I need, I have a glossary in front of
1:11.7	me right now. San Francisco 49 right now San Francisco 49ers they're
1:14.6	named after that 49 was 1849 when they struck old yeah it is correct how guys I
1:21.1	get the history of it I don't get any of the sports stuff. In fact, you know how people sometimes use sports analogies to explain something political?
1:29.0	For me, I like need a political analogy to understand the sports thing.
1:34.0	So this so as you probably know Colin am I saying it right Kappernic?
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