The Rosa Parks Take a Seat protest, and Collin Kaepernick take a Knee protest are two similar incidents that take place in different years but both are proving to be such a powerful movement. A silent protest is most likely not going to be noticed unless someone does something that blows everything out of the water. Rosa Parks sat in her seat that she sat in for years and then a white man came on and demanded her to move from her seat but in this era white people were in total control and blacks were a major minority, but Rosa Parks told him no and remained in her seat until cops came to arrest her but after that incident all black people came together to bail Rosa Parks out of jail and started the Montgomery Boycott. Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the National anthem before he took the field against the San Diego chargers and continued to take a knee and after he started to take knees before the games and during the National Anthem, but after Collin Kaepernick started to take knees he was right away disowned and bashed but when all of these things are crashing down around him more and more of the other players started to follow the same footsteps that Collin laid for them.
In 1955 Is when Rosa Parks sat in her seat and refused to stand up and the Montgomery Boycott started and then ended in 1956. And the take a knee movement by Collin Kaepernick started in 2016 and it is still an ongoing thing that is continued by other players, coaches, and now owners. Rosa Parks take a seat was a statement that she was not going to sit down not literally but not sit down and let the white man tell her what to do anymore, and after that the black community came together and became strong and did something that no one saw coming and it worked and that one thing that Rosa did turned into something that would change America forever. Collin Kaepernick t...
