The U.K.’s foreign minister was criticized by British lawmakers and on social media for muddling the anti-racism gesture inspired by Colin Kaepernick with HBO's 'Game of Thrones' where characters 'bent a knee' to show submission to a faction
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raise their first during the anthem as Eli Harold #58 while teammates Colin Kaepernick #7 and Eric Reid #35 take a knee, prior to the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Levi Stadium on October 2, 2016 in Santa Clara, California. The Cowboys defeated the 49ers 24-17. UNITED STATES - JUNE 8: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
in 2016. Iconic images of Kaepernick's protest, which effectively ended his NFL career, have been compared to images of Martin Luther King Jr. kneeling to pray alongside civil rights leaders and demonstrators in 1965.
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