Washington University Journal of Law & Policy Volume 59 Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers 2019 Kaepernick Can Kick It!: Employment Discrimination, Political Activism, and Speech in the NFL Brittney Watkins J.D. 2019, Washington University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, and the Labor and Employment Law Commons Recommended Citation Brittney Watkins, Kaepernick Can Kick It!: Employment Discrimination, Political Activism, and Speech in the NFL, 59 WASH. U. J. L. & POL’Y 259 (2019), https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol59/iss1/15 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Journal of Law & Policy by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Kaepernick Can Kick It!: Employment Discrimination, Political Activism, and Speech in the NFL * Brittney Watkins “There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.” —James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name1 INTRODUCTION Anti-discrimination laws do not offer enough protection against employment discrimination. Colin Kaepernick has yet to be hired by hired by an NFL team following his anti-police brutality protests during the national anthem,2