In the 2016 interview published by Yahoo News, Ginsburg, who died last year, was quoted as saying that protests by NFL players choosing not to stand before games were “
dumb and disrespectful.”
The kneeling protests, led by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, were meant to call out police violence and systemic racism against Black people in the U.S.
What Couric didn’t include in the Yahoo News interview was Ginsburg saying that athletes protesting in this way were showing “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life … which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”