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Posted on 08/28/2016 2:22:21 PM PDT by drewh

Rep. Pete King shot back on Sunday.

"Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem is entirely wrong," King, a Republican Representative from the second district, said in an email statement. "It is also an indicator of how low our cultural standards have been degraded that anyone is actually supporting this behavior.

". . . Having an NFL quarterback insult our flag by refusing to stand during the playing of the 'Star Spangled Banner,' adds neither honesty nor intelligence to that debate."

King added Kaepernick's claims of black oppression are overstated and, more controversially, self-inflicted.

"Kaepernick charges that America 'oppresses black people and people of color' even though America has elected and re-elected an African-American President and in the previous eight years of the Bush Administration both Secretaries of State (Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice) were African-American," King said. "And in Kaepernick's NFL the large majority of players are African-American.

"If he is referring to violence against African-Americans, that comes primarily from within the black community itself. If he is reciting the fraudulent Black Lives Matter theme that police are targeting African-Americans, then he is clearly wrong and misguided.

King added America's immigration is a sign of strength in the racial debate.

New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz, a black Puerto Rican American, chided his fellow NFL player for making it personal and racial.

"Regardless of how you feel about the things that are going on in America today and the things that are going on across the world with gun violence and things like that: You've got to respect the flag and stand up with your teammates," Cruz told USA Today's Lorenzo Reyes.

"It's bigger than just you." !

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...

With Trump fixin to kick "Pickles" ass every which way but loose, the swing back to patriotism, this Colin Kaepernick picked the wrong time to make an anti-U. S. statement.  This won't end well for him.

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