Rep. John Lewis: If I Were on the Field I’d Kneel for the National Anthem

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REID: "You mentioned the right to peaceful protests. I feel compelled to ask you about the proliferation of kneeling protests that have gone through the NFL, Colin Kaepernick started it, now it’s sort of spread throughout the national football league. You had Lebron James chastise the president of the united States for attacking players who choose to kneel. What do you think of the kneeling protests?" 
LEWIS: "So inspiring to see these young men standing with their owners and with managers and it’s saying something. It’s all right. It’s saying when you see something that’s not right, not fair, not just, you have to assess something. You have to do something. Guaranteed and protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. People telling you don’t do this, don’t do that. We have a right to do it. Some of these people in the ‘60s would have said don’t go on the freedom rides, don’t participate in the sit-in at the lunch counter. Don’t March in Washington. Don’ch from Selma to Montgomery. You have a right to March. It’s protected by the flag."
REID: "Would a young John Lewis if you were among those players, would you kneel at the national anthem? 
LEWIS: "If I was on that court, with that owner, I would kneel with the players. A young John Lewis would kneel. We may be kneeling in Washington a few days to come. Maybe on the floor of the house. Maybe in the rotunda, maybe on the steps of the capitol." 
REID: "I want to ask you one more question, yourself and Eric Holder the former attorney general of the United States have come together to fight another thing, with so much going on, that’s the situation with gerrymandering. Can you tell us your position on gerrymandering? There’s a Supreme Court case being Teed up. What are you and the former attorney general doing and what are your thoughts on gerrymandering?" 
LEWIS: "We have the question of how they legislate it, districts and lines have been drawn, not just at the federal level but also at the state and levels. We have too many politics today selecting voters, rather than voters selecting them. It’s a good thing to make the political bodies much more democratic."