Very soon, I'm going to talk about basketball, because Vegas has released some over/under numbers, and there's some interesting stuff in there. But first, let me plug some protesters.

One of the most common responses to Colin Kaepernick sitting out the national anthem was that it was an "inappropriate time to protest". This kind of reasoning is just a trap, though, because of course, there's never a time to protest that is convenient for the targets of protestors. And so, if protestors really agreed to sit by the sidelines and be "respectful" on "special occasions", they'd just get caught in an endless game of "Now? Ok, how about now? Can I go now? Is it my turn now? What about now?" Or, as Lawrence Ross puts it:

When you tell black folks that they need to not protest on Sept. 11, you’ve just made the declaration that black people, and their lives, are disposable. And it’s a con. Because if you can get me to be quiet about oppression on your special day, then you will be able to shut me up on the other 364 days of the year. I will have compromised myself to the point of marginalizing my fight against oppression.

So, if you are a privileged white male like me, I believe you have a duty to, at the very least, support people's right to protest. And I don't mean silently. When you see folks on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Real Life trying to shut down protestors, step up for their rights. Here are some people on Twitter to get you started:

• https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome
• https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7
• https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis
• https://twitter.com/bomani_jones