“Don’t make sports political.”

Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the American national anthem is not about politics–it’s about life or death. Because trying to help your autistic patient and obeying every order of police gets you shot like Charles Kinsey. Because having car trouble and being flustered gets you murdered like Terence Crutcher. Because being black in America is one step away from being a live-streamed body laying at the side of the road.

Because your vocation doesn’t really matter if your dead. Because Black Lives Matter.

Lord have mercy.