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8 NCAA Basketball Players Kneel for National Anthem in Protest

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Eight University of Mississippi men’s basketball players kneeled in protest during the national anthem Saturday in response to a Confederacy rally near the arena in Oxford.

Minutes before the game against Georgia, both teams formed lines for the anthem.

As soon as “The Star-Spangled Banner” began, six players from the Rebels took a knee and bowed.

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Toward the end of the anthem, two teammates joined them.

Some observers questioned the logic of kneeling during the anthem of the country that defeated the Confederacy in order to protest the Confederacy.

Many people expressed anger over the Ole Miss protest.

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The Confederacy demonstration was led by out-of-state protesters a few hundred feet from the arena.

Various student groups held counterprotests on campus Thursday and Friday.

On Saturday, one began on the city square and ended at the Confederate monument in the heart of the Ole Miss campus.

Anthem protests were started in the NFL by then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2016. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media at the time.

The demonstrations spread in the NFL but never found a foothold on the college level.

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