Will we see players kneel?

[grampahol]

I'm hopeful they do and in fact I'd like for the entire league, all professional leagues and players and coaches to also join in as well as every fan and spectator not because I'm any kind of rabble rouser or radical. My reasons have to do with citizen participation in our so called democracy.  
Takeo Spikes wrote a good article in The Players Tribune,

"Under the circumstances that we face today as a people and as a nation, when WE THE PEOPLE must recognize the difference between right and wrong, when we have an obligation to speak out in the wake of Ferguson, Baltimore, Charlottesville and more, silence is acceptance, if not collusion. You’re either part of the solution … or you’re a major part of the problem if you are not speaking out against injustice and inequality in America. It has been said that “Silence is evil’s greatest ally.” Our country’s Constitution puts responsibility for forming “a more perfect union” squarely upon “We the People…,” and it doesn’t stipulate “We the People … with the exception of athletes.”
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/takeo-spikes-wake-up/

While this may feel inconvenient to some people democracy isn't a matter of convenience. 
Those who like to make the claims that soldiers fight for the first, second or even 10th amendment to the constitution aren't really paying attention to why soldiers go to war in this country to begin with. 
Although we're seldom told the truth it doesn't take a history major to see most of the fighting is to protect someone else's wealth. That alone is pretty inconvenient, but it's why the majority of wars are fought. Nobody ever went to war to protect a flag. They may be conned into believing that is the reason, but it isn't and never has been.  Flags are mere symbols as are songs. 
Think back to how athletes have been treated over the years and you'll soon realize that by in large they've been treated by team owners as property to be used, traded, sold and disposed of and until just recently in history weren't paid much either. It really wasn't until the 1960s with people such as Mohammed Ali and Curt Flood challenging baseball's reserve clause that athletes in general had any voice at all in the business of sports.
There is nothing in our constitution or laws that say athletes should remain silent about how our nation or any nation operates and it's my belief that since they do have such an open and widely seen platform for bringing things to light they should be allowed and encouraged to use this unique position in life to speak up and not be treated as chattel or mere hired hands on the farm. 
You don't have to like it and certainly nobody is forcing anybody to attend or pay attention to the games.
You can tell us that you won't attend another game or won't be a fan of the team if players decide to exercise their rights of free speech and exactly how does that help our society move on from bigotry and racial division ? It doesn't and I suspect nobody cares if you do or don't.