The 74-year-old added, "No matter who chooses to deflect with this narrative and continue to mix these two in the same message, it is not so and cannot be made so by anyone speaking it. Singer Gladys Knight responds to critics who believe she should not sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl in protest over the NFL’s treatment of Colin Kaepernick. I am African-American and I do not agree with Colin Kaepernick’s idiotology.
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3 to give the Anthem back its voice, to stand for that historic choice of words, the way it unites us when we hear it and to free it from the same prejudices and struggles I have fought long and hard for all my life, from walking back hallways, from marching with our social leaders, from using my voice for good-I have been in the forefront of this battle longer than most of those voicing their opinions to win the right to sing our country's Anthem on a stage as large as the Super Bowl LIII." Against heavy criticism, Knight defended her decision to perform the Anthem despite the NFL’s alleged blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick. Gladys Knight will sing the National Anthem during Super Bowl LIII. It is unfortunate that our National Anthem has been dragged into this debate when the distinctive senses of the National Anthem and fighting for justice should each stand alone," Gladys shared in a statement to E! News. Kaepernick is protesting two things and they are police violence and injustice. Kaepernick’s protest began in 2016, during the third pre-season 49ers game in which he sat (and in later games knelt), instead of standing up with.
Just days after the National Football League announced that the "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" singer will be singing the National Anthem at Super Bowl 2019, the Grammy winner decided to defend her decision to participate in the festivities. The soul singer’s upcoming performance of the national anthem comes at a time following former member of the San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick’s game setting launch of a political protest.
Gladys Knight defends singing national anthem at Super Bowl. Gladys Knight is speaking out ahead of her special performance. The soul singer says she wants to 'give the anthem back its voice' and criticised Colin Kaepernick.
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