Posted on 08/27/2016 2:14:43 PM PDT by Beave Meister
“I understand Kaepernick’s intention, however I disagree with his means. His NBA counterparts protested the same ideas in a way that neither hurt the country, nor ignored the ideals that people of color have fought and died which; ideals represented by the symbolism of the American Flag and words of the National Anthem.
As a member of a national organization, reaping the benefits of a country that apparently oppresses people who look like him, his argument is thin on a personal level.
Doing what Dwayne Wade and company did at a game opener to support BLM, or making a public verbal statement as Carmelo Anthony did, or even a written statement as Michael Jordan did are all more appropriate acts of protest.
He could write his congressman, he could petition, he could picket, he could join the service and actually fight for the rights he seems to think are not offered to him; his sitting through the National Anthem was a lazy lack of will and brain power.”
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He’s not worthy of living in this great land. America, love it or leave it!!
He ought to move someplace that won’t pay him $19 million per yr to play a kids’ game, someplace that he thinks is a racial paradise. Why doesn’t he try one of the awesome African countries that are so much better places for “people of color” nowadays.
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