Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

I am Karen Hunter, and I am a sports fanatic.

I have to confess that, right?

I started my career as a sports writer.

First for the New Jersey Star Ledger, and then for the New York Daily News. I started my

career covering actually the very first sport was high school football. And I love football. I've been

in several football leagues, fantasy football leagues, and I absolutely love it. But then Colin

Kaepernick took a knee and the NFL decided they were going to make an example of him.

And I decided I was never going to watch it again.

Yes, I've seen all of the things, the way in which they run their combines, the way in which

they treat their players.

And I've always thought the owners and the players had a very strange relationship and it

harkened back to something happening on a plantation.

But it never allowed me to

think more deeply about it until Colin Kaepernick did what he did. And then they got exposed in my opinion.

So I've been boycotting ever since, even though I do love football. I'm not going to watch a minute of Shador

Sanders this season unless it's in a clip. But I'm standing on business because I think it's time for us to let these people know who has the power. And it's us. It's our eyeballs. It's our purchases. It's all of that. We make the sport, not the other way around. So up next is the reason why I'm still boycotting. Stay tuned. And this week, I'm also going to delve into the power of our voice, the power of our saying no.

I want to just be clear because I want to get it on record because there have been so much

misinformation over the last three plus years since Colin Kaepernick first took a knee

about why he took a knee. So these are facts. Fact alert,

yes. 2016 Colin Kaepernick, then a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, took a knee.

He was the first NFL player to take a knee. He took a knee to protest police brutality during the national anthem. His protest

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