00:00Colin Kaepernick has caused controversy by kneeling during the national anthem, sparking
00:05a dialogue about race relations in America.
00:08Of course, Kaepernick isn't the first athlete to protest between the lines of play.
00:12There was the man who shook up the world.
00:14Boxing legend Muhammad Ali refused his draft orders for the Vietnam War in 1967 with his
00:19famous words, I ain't got no quarrel with those Viet Cong.
00:23He was fined, sentenced to five years of prison, and banned from boxing for three years.
00:27Ali managed to stay out of prison by appealing his case and later reclaimed his heavyweight
00:32title.
00:33Just as Ali's stance became iconic, so too was the powerful image of sprinters Tommy
00:38Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
00:41The pair raised their fists during the national anthem as a message to the world about America's
00:46racial inequality.
00:48The result?
00:49Smith and Carlos were suspended from the U.S. team and scorned by the media for being unpatriotic.
00:54Forty years later, a statue of the Olympians was erected in their honor at their alma mater,
00:59San Jose State University.
01:02And before Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the anthem, Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf remained seated.
01:07The Denver Nuggets guard felt that standing for the national anthem contradicted his Islamic
01:11beliefs.
01:12When asked why he would not stand, Abdul-Raouf said, you can be for God and for oppression.
01:18Despite averaging more than 19 points per game, Abdul-Raouf was traded following the 1996 season.
01:23Colin Kaepernick is only the most recent athlete to stand for a cause.
01:28Even as fans burned his jerseys, Kaepernick has been joined by his fellow athletes, men
01:32and women, black and white, across the sporting landscape.
01:36Kaepernick isn't the first, and he certainly won't be the last.
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