LeBron James says the NFL needs to apologize directly to Colin Kaepernick
Over the last few weeks, the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell have apologized on more than one occasion for not supporting their players in their peaceful protests against police brutality and the mistreatment of Black people across the country.
But they still have yet to apologize directly to Colin Kaepernick — the player who started the peaceful protests and hasn't been able to land a job in the NFL since he began protesting.
Because of that, there have been a choir of voices railing against the NFL and calling on the league to apologize directly to Kaepernick and give him a job back.
LeBron James is now officially the latest, and maybe the biggest, voice to join in on that call.
In an interview on Bloomberg on Thursday, James directly called out the NFL and said the league owes Kaepernick an apology.
"As far as the NFL, I'm not in those locker rooms. I'm not with those guys. But I do understand that an apology, I have not heard a true, official apology to Colin Kaepernick on what he was going through and what he was trying to tell the NFL and tell the world about why he was kneeling…so, I just see that to still be wrong," James said in the Bloomberg interview. "And now they are listening some, but I still think we have not heard that official apology to a man who, basically, sacrificed everything to better this world."
There you have it, folks. LeBron wants the apology. Everyone else wants the apology. The NFL just has to give it now.
Probably a good idea not to hold your breath waiting on it, though.