Athletes & Sociopolitical Activity “But, why?”A Study.

Fred Burton
26 min readJun 10, 2020

“I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. To me, this is something that has to change. When there’s significant change and I feel that flag represents what it’s supposed to represent, and this country is representing people the way that it’s supposed to, I will stand. This stand wasn’t for me. This is because I’m seeing things happen to people that don’t have a voice, people that don’t have a platform to talk and have their voices heard, and effect change. So I’m in the position where I can do that and I’m going to do that for…

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Fred Burton

Political Science at California State, Channel Islands.