It has been a week since President Donald Trump's call to fire NFL players who protested during the national anthem was spoken in front of a crowd of supporters in Huntsville, Alabama.

Nearly 200 NFL players, celebrities and regular citizens took a knee, raised a fist and protested to spite Trump and his rhetoric creating the #TakeTheKnee/#TakeAKnee movement the Saturday and Sunday following the rally. Trump and many conservatives framed the protests as an attack on the national anthem and flag instead of a protest against police brutality and institutional racism.

Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson believes the NFL has co-opted Colin Kaepernick's original protest and changed it into something entirely different. 

In an interview with TMZ, he said the original goals of Kap's protest were "politically whitewashed from why it started in the first place" — and, to him, kneeling has turned into "a goddamn Ice Bucket Challenge."

Many have said that NFL players were only interested in reminding Trump that he is not their boss. Others claim the new string of protests were an #AllLivesMatter misdirection that does not force the NFL to confront police brutality. While many have remained true to the original protest message by standing in solidarity with Kap, others have compromised. 

On Monday night following Trump's rally statements, Dallas Cowboys players, staff and owner Jerry Jones took a knee before the national anthem but still received a flurry of boos. 

"We're not kneeling for the same reasons that Kaepernick kneeled for 14 months ago," Johnson said. "It's completely different."

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