National Anthem Protests Infiltrate MLB: Giants Players Kneel at Monday Night's Game

Major League Baseball is back and so, it seems, is the pro-Athlete practice of kneeling during our national anthem in professional sports.  

Before an exhibition game Monday night with the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum, several San Francisco Giants players and manager Gabe Kapler kneeled during the rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.  

This was the first national anthem protest at an MLB game since 2017 when Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first MLB player to do so following Colin Kaepernick's example. 

MLB posted a video of the protest on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and the new Black Lives Matter emoji of three fists in different shades of brown skin color. 
 

Members of the @SFGiants kneel during the National Anthem. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/QbvAvCZiEs

— MLB (@MLB) July 21, 2020

They also shared a photo quote post of Dodgers player Clayton Kershaw speaking out about racial injustice. 

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