CNN's Marc Lamont Hill Defends 'Principled' QB Who Protested Anthem

Matthew Balan | August 29, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

CNN's Marc Lamont Hill sided with Colin Kaepernick on the 29 August 2016 edition of New Day, after the NFL quarterback used the national anthem to protest the apparent oppression of blacks in the U.S.: "When black people...critique America, a certain label gets put on that doesn't get put on other people. When Trump says, I wants to make America great again, he doesn't get accused of saying he hates America." Hil also played up how the anthem was written before the abolition of slavery, and derided criticism of Kaepernick as "another example of white people defining for black people what's most important."

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