What happens when the President has a problem with silent protest? (Dr. Harry Edwards)

In September of 2017, Trump famously asked the crowd at an Alabama rally "wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he's fired?'" Though there is undoubtedly a long history of activism in professional sports, from Muhammad Ali to LeBron James, the current controversy began last season when Colin Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to rise for the national anthem at the start of games to highlight police brutality and the killing of unarmed  African-Americans. Kaepernick has yet to sign with an NFL team after becoming a free agent earlier this year. In a special one-hour episode of TrumpWatch, Jesse speaks with Dr. Harry Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, about the role athletes have played in the struggle for civil rights in America. A longtime consultant for the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors, Dr. Edwards organized the Olympic Project for Human Rights, which inspired African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos to raise a fist in the "Black Power salute" during the playing of the United States national anthem at a medal ceremony during the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.