Al Sharpton says Colin Kaepernick and Jackie Robinson raised the same issue just in different way.

Sharpton pointed out in NYC, that Robinson made his feelings clear in his 1972 autobiography, ‘I Never Had It Made.’ ”

“As I write this twenty years [after my MLB debut], I cannot stand and sing the anthem,” Robinson wrote.  “I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world.”

Kaepernick has refused to stand during the national anthem, noting that there’s oppression, inequality and police brutality against black people in the country.

Sharpton says both Robinson and Kaepernick raise a “critical point” about Francis Scott Key and the negative references to slaves in the complete version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The civil rights activist says although his form of protest is different, he agrees with Kaepernick and will not condemn his protest because it has not hurt anyone “but possibly his own career.”