Nobel Peace Laureate: "I Wish I Could Take a Knee with Kaepernick"

[Judi Lynn]

By KHALEA ROSS ROBINSON CBS NEWS October 19, 2017, 9:05 AM


On October 15th, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, New York, bestowed one of its highly coveted Human Rights Awards on Nobel Laureate, Jody Williams. As part of her acceptance speech, Williams voiced her support for Colin Kaepernick's having "taken a knee" to draw attention to black men being disproportionately shot by police, and other racial inequities.

Williams became the third American woman in history to receive the Nobel Peace Prize when she won in 1997 for her work to ban landmines. She joined us on the phone to discuss her stance on the NFL protests. Edited for brevity and clarity.

KRR: Why in your opinion are athletes, both black and white, taking a knee?

JW: The seeming inability of this country to deal with racism in general, but in particular, the police brutality against primarily black men. There certainly has been violence against black women but the killings of black men have been very, very disturbing to many people. I think [they] helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement.

So when Kaepernick decided to use his fame to take a knee, and by doing so, make a public statement about the need to deal with this, I thought it was outstanding, personally.

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1. Me too! The NFL owners should be treating CK as a hero, instead of a pariah.

Their white supremacist actions speak LOUDER than words.