{"id":1495205,"date":"2022-05-27T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495205"},"modified":"2022-05-27T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:29:50","slug":"in-wake-of-uvalde-shooting-san-francisco-giants-manager-boycotting-national-anthem-until-he-feels-better-about-direction-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-wake-of-uvalde-shooting-san-francisco-giants-manager-boycotting-national-anthem-until-he-feels-better-about-direction-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"In Wake Of Uvalde Shooting, San Francisco Giants Manager Boycotting National Anthem Until He Feels Better About Direction Of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-wake-of-uvalde-shooting-san-francisco-giants-manager-boycotting-national-anthem-until-he-feels-better-about-direction-of-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495205&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler told reporters prior to his team\u2019s Friday night game against the Cincinnati Reds that he will not be taking the field for the national anthem and will not be doing so until he feels better about the direction of the country in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting that occurred earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Andrew Baggerly tweeted, \u201cGabe Kapler told reporters in Cincinnati that he doesn\u2019t plan on coming out for the national anthem and that will be his plan going forward \u2018until I feel better about the direction of our country.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kapler, who has been the Giants\u2019 manager since 2019, also published an online essay explaining his decision Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was the same age as the children in Uvalde, my father taught me to stand for the pledge of allegiance when I believed my country was representing its people well or to protest and stay seated when it wasn\u2019t,\u201d Kapler explained. \u201cI don\u2019t believe it is representing us well right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, at Robb Elementary School. Kapler noted that he wanted to protest the anthem on Wednesday evening, but didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Wednesday, I walked out onto the field, I listened to the announcement as we honored the victims in Uvalde. I bowed my head. I stood for the national anthem. Metallica riffed on City Connect guitars,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brain said drop to a knee; my body didn\u2019t listen,\u201d Kapler continued. \u201cI wanted to walk back inside; instead I froze. I felt like a coward. I didn\u2019t want to call attention to myself. I didn\u2019t want to take away from the victims or their families. There was a baseball game, a rock band, the lights, the pageantry. I knew that thousands of people were using this game to escape the horrors of the world for just a little bit. I knew that thousands more wouldn\u2019t understand the gesture and would take it as an offense to the military, to veterans, to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kapler also blasted elected leaders in his essay, writing that he is \u201coften struck before our games by the lack of delivery of the promise of what our national anthem represents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Red Sox player opined that Americans \u201cstand in honor of a country where we elect representatives to serve us, to thoughtfully consider and enact legislation that protects the interests of all the people in this country and to move this country forward towards the vision of the \u2018shining city on the hill.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut instead, we thoughtlessly link our moment of silence and grief with the equally thoughtless display of celebration for a country that refuses to take up the concept of controlling the sale of weapons used nearly exclusively for the mass slaughter of human beings,\u201d Kapler continued. \u201cWe have our moment (over and over), and then we move on without demanding real change from the people we empower to make these changes. We stand, we bow our heads, and the people in power leave on recess, celebrating their own patriotism at every turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I\u2019m participating in a self congratulatory glorification of the ONLY country where these mass shootings take place,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kapler also tweeted, \u201cWe\u2019re not the land of the free nor the home of the brave right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re not the land of the free nor the home of the brave right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XilHsz4s0W\">https:\/\/t.co\/XilHsz4s0W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 gabe kapler (@gabekapler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gabekapler\/status\/1530255326976479232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Giants play the Reds Friday evening at 6:40 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler told reporters prior to his team\u2019s Friday night game against the Cincinnati Reds that he will not be taking the field for the national anthem and will not be doing so until he feels better about the direction of the country in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1495223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}