As the national anthem played before Friday night’s game, the Watkins Mill football team took its stand with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick by taking a knee on the Gaithersburg High sideline. Hispanic/Latino and African American students make up three-fourths of Watkins Mill’s student population, according to Montgomery County Public Schools data. Watkins Mill Athletic Director Reggie Spears estimated more than 70 percent of the football team is African American. Other high school football teams around the country have followed Kaepernick’s lead. Spears said the school had no plans to either encourage or discourage them from continuing to in future games.

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2016 23:03 UTC