Taking a knee or waiting in the locker room never helped one American of African Descent.
President Trump hired Americans of African Descent before he was President.
Had a conservative of color around here who always wrote very conservative opinion pieces in the local paper. But he would use phrases like: my people, fellow blacks, African American etc. I went back and forth with him for quite some time in the comments section following his writings.
My point to him was that as long as your ethnicity comes before your nationality in describing yourself and others like you, you are being divisive. You define yourself first by your color or origins and by doing so you show where your true loyalties are. Instead of healing racial wounds you are picking at them and they will never heal.
He got it eventually and started describing himself as an American of African Descent.
I used to visit him as he was under Hospice care and he kept up his opinion pieces right to the end. Local lefties hated him with a passion as he refused to stay on the plantation.
I miss him.