The wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford apologized to Colin Kaepernick on social media on Saturday for her 2017 remarks, in which she criticized him for kneeling during the national anthem.
Kelly Stafford announced on Instagram that she and her husband donated $ 35,000 to the University of Georgia, their alma mater, to help fund a social justice program. In the same post, she apologized to the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback for attacking his protests back in 2017.
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‘When Kaepernick nodded at the national anthem, I had strong feelings about it. Even when he went on to say that it had nothing to do with the flag being military, I did not listen. “I did not listen to him or anyone else and the political rhetoric convinced me that he had a great deal of respect for our military,” she read.
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“The past several months I’ve opened my ears, mind and heart and it’s opened my eyes to see how wrong I was and that’s sorry.”
At the time, Kelly wrote that the national anthem was not “the national racist song,” according to the New York Daily News. “I believe we can stand up and show our unity against anything that does not represent what this flag stands for.”
Renewed protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have prompted many, just like Kelly, to apologize for their initial reaction to Kaepernick’s protest that began in 2016.
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“This systematic racism will not go away unless we ALL work on it by working on ourselves and those around us,” she said Saturday. “It’s time for everyone to do their part to end this system.”
