These young guys get paid millions of dollars to chase a piece of rubber/pigskin - they don't know how to do anything else - they're not doctors, or lawyers, or engineers - they weren't trained in how to solve the problems of society. So when they see some societal problem they feel passionate about, then all they can think to do is something like taking a knee, like Kapaernick has done.
It's like when a small baby feels hungry, or cold, or wet - it doesn't know how to make food, or raise its surrounding temperature, or dry itself off - it just knows how to cry/wail - so that's what it does, because that's all that it knows how to do. We've raised a generation of idiots - they don't know anything about civics, they don't know how to write their congressman, or become a school trustee or social volunteer. Instead, their only instincts are primal instincts, deficient in reasoning or structure - just like that baby that is born only knowing how to cry/wail.
Today's young professional athlete is a posterchild for the stupidity that afflicts this younger generation. They're the most concentrated/distilled form of stupidity - so if anyone is going to react in a stupid primal way to a societal problem, it'll most likely be them (or one of their emulators among the broader less athletically talented mass of youth)
It's sad. What originated as a pastime, has grown into an industry, which has then become a clearinghouse for overgrown children devoid of any societal skills beyond chasing that piece of rubber/pigskin.
