Intelligence Specialist 2nd Class Janaye Ervin. Facebook photo
Call it the Kaepernick effect.
As more pro athletes around the country follow San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's lead and take a knee for the Star Spangled Banner in protest, a second sailor has gone public with her own gesture of solidarity.
Intelligence Specialist 2nd Class Janaye Ervin, a reservist on active duty within U.S. Pacific Fleet, is subject to administrative actions, still under review, for refusing to stand for the national anthem while in uniform Sept. 19, Bill Doughty, a spokesman for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Public Affairs told Military.com.
Ervin posted a public account of her actions to Facebook on Sept. 21.
"I have been proudly serving in the US Navy Reserve Force since November 2008. I have pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and to spread freedom and democracy around the world. I will never waver from that pledge," she wrote in the post, which included a photograph of herself in her Navy blue digital camouflage work uniform.
Her choice not to stand for the anthem was a conscious decision, made for ideological reasons, she said.
"I feel like a hypocrite singing about the 'land of the free' when I know that only applies to some Americans," she wrote. "I will gladly stand again, when ALL AMERICANS are afforded the same freedom."
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...or-anthem.html
ANOTHER PERSON THAT JUST DOESN'T GET IT! If BLM why not work on restoring civility to your own race and be a positive example instead of a racist crybaby?
According to the FBI stats blacks kill more blacks and other people than all other races combined in America!
IMHO, Stop or change those FACTS and Law Enforcement will be less leery and suspicious of blacks........