WOUNDED KNEE: NFL Players Kneel for Social Justice, But Is Trend Now Splintering Liberals?

The trend of National Football League players electing to take a knee during the singing of the national anthem, launched last year by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a means of protesting alleged racial biases in the criminal justice system, soared to new highs Sunday after President Donald Trump tore into kneeling players Friday night during a speech in Alabama.

But is the kneeling movement, initiated by Kaepernick to protest police brutality, on the verge of splintering social justice causes? A scan of social media activity shows there is a growing resentment forming inside of groups such as Black Lives Matter, who are now apparently noticing that white liberals have appropriated the act as a form of "resistance" against all things Trump, and not a call for criminal justice reforms that players like Kaepernick had originally intended.