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Essay / Colin Kaepernick and the question of who can be...
games. By comparing patriotism to racism, Morris is able to identify where the gray area of patriotism lies. It is important to emphasize that “racism and patriotism tend to point toward the exit.” Morris explains that it is racist for a white American to blame black Americans for the problems in American society. Morris also discusses how it could be considered racist to hold other ethnic and minority groups beholden to self-proclaimed tolerance toward these groups living in America. The same could be said of patriotism. Today's American patriots like to think that everyone is responsible for the world's problems and are always pointing the finger at another group of people, rather than tackling their own problems within the country. Morris says, however, that the NFL commissioner believes that patriotism in football lies in the fact that players want to see change in football..