While his colleagues stood and bolted arms on the sideline as the national song of praise played before Sunday's preseason amusement against the Los Angeles Chargers in Carson, Calif., Seattle Seahawks cautious lineman Michael Bennett sat alone on the seat. Bennett's demonstration came one day after his previous partner, Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, sat on a cooler amid the national song of praise before a preseason diversion against the Cardinals.
Bennett talked about his choice to sit amid the national hymn after the Seahawks' 48-17 win.
"With everything that has been going on the most recent few months, and particularly after the most recent few days seeing everything in Virginia, seeing everything that is going ahead out there, and prior today in Seattle, I simply needed to have the capacity to utilize my stage to have the capacity to ceaselessly talk on unfairness," Bennett said.
Bennett, whose father, Michael Bennett Sr., served in the Navy, included that he wasn't standing firm against the military.
"As a matter of first importance, I need to ensure individuals comprehend, I adore the military," Bennett said. "My dad was in the military. I adore sausage like whatever other American, I cherish football like some other American, yet I don't love isolation, I don't love riots, I don't love mistreatment, I don't love sexual orientation criticizing. I simply need to see individuals have the balance that they merit. I need to have the capacity to utilize this stage to ceaselessly push the message of that, continue venturing out and continue discovering how unselfish would we be able to be as a general public. By what means would we be able to persistently cherish each other and comprehend that individuals are unique? Also, in light of the fact that they're diverse doesn't mean you shouldn't care for them. Because they don't notice the way you smell, since they don't eat what you eat, in light of the fact that they don't petition a similar God you appeal to, that doesn't mean you should detest them. Regardless of whether it's Muslim, whether it's Buddhist, whether it's Christianity, whatever it is, I simply need individuals to comprehend that, regardless, we're in this thing together. It's more about being an individual now."
Bennett said he settled on the choice to sit amid the national song of devotion all alone and plans to keep on doing so. He trusts the motion can "enact everyone to get off their hands and feet and go out to the groups and push helping each other."
Seattle Coach Pete Carroll said he didn't know until after the diversion that Bennett wasn't remaining with his partners.
"I truly haven't had an opportunity to consider it," Carroll said when requested his response. "I heard it strolling in the entryway, so I'll tell you later."
Like Lynch, who didn't talk freely about his turn after Saturday's amusement, the frank Bennett has been a vocal supporter of previous San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who confronted feedback for bowing amid pregame versions of the national song of devotion last season to dissent racial foul play and police fierceness.
Kaepernick quit the last year of his agreement with the 49ers in March, realizing that he would've been discharged by the group he prompted the Super Bowl in 2013 in the event that he hadn't chose to do as such, and he stays without an occupation. Many, including Bennett, trust Kaepernick's dissents are the reason he's as yet a free specialist.
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"Obviously he's being renounced," Bennett said on a New York radio station in June. "No one loves race and legislative issues in sports. I feel that is something that no one needs to discuss, and for him to get race and legislative issues sports, I think it struck many individuals the wrong way. … You watch the general population that truly watch football, it's center America, and the general population that purchase tickets to the amusement aren't generally African American individuals, and for him to bring that into that group was one thing that individuals felt like shouldn't have been there."
Bennett, who is co-writing a book titled "How To Make White People Uncomfortable" and got together with Kaepernick at the quarterback's Know Your Rights Camp in June, battled for the Seahawks to sign Kaepernick to go down Russell Wilson this offseason. Seattle marked Austin Davis.