Lansing City Council honors football players who knelt during anthem to protest racism
LANSING — City Council honored four
black Lansing Catholic High School football players who were punished by
their school after kneeling during the national anthem to protest
racism.
On Monday night, council adopted a resolution, which referred to the students as the "Lansing Catholic High School 4."
Lansing
Catholic High School told students this year they would be penalized if
they refused to stand for the national anthem before football games.
Senior Michael Lynn III, senior Matthew Abdullah,
junior Kabbash Richards and senior Roje Williams knelt before several
games this season to call attention to racial injustice. As a result,
the school prohibited the boys from starting during some games and, in
certain cases, appeared to reduce their playing time.
“There
are people that have called our actions disrespectful and I ask that
those people find the disrespect in the injustices that we are calling
attention to," Lynn said during Monday's city council meeting.
Read more at Lansing State Journal.
