Trent Dilfer isn’t backing down from his comments he made regarding the Kaepernick protest. Dilfer spoke on KNBR regarding how he chose to protest when he was a backup QB. Explaining how his right of protesting and speaking out was correct behavior for a backup quarterback.
“My wife and I had been introduced to some really disturbing stuff and other social injustices: Childhood slavery in our country,” Dilfer said, via Deadspin. “And I’d gone to a couple seminars and presentations where we got really deep in the weeds about this issue. It became a passion of ours to help fight this battle of childhood slavery around the country and I had a very big platform in Seattle and I could have leveraged being a Seattle Seahawk, being an NFL quarterback, done a lot to get that message out there, but I chose not to at the sake of not wanting to disrupt the team and I never want to draw attention to myself, and take it away from Matt [Hasselbeck], the rest of our team and our preparation to win.”
Childhood slavery is way more important the winning a football game. I’m not sure why Trent Dilfer would you think speaking out against childhood slavery was a bad thing or a distraction. The biggest problem here is that for Trent to feel so strongly about an issue, why would he remain silent.
Trent Dilfer is essentially what Dr. Martin Luther King warned us about. A moderate person that is more concerned with keeping a calm oppression than fighting for injustice.