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Kaepernick on July Fourth: 'We reject your celebration of white supremacy'
The Hill ^ | 07/04/2020 | Brook Seipel

Posted on 07/04/2020 7:24:24 PM PDT by Kevin in California

Former NFL star and activist Colin Kaepernick marked July Fourth by sharing a video of actor James Earl Jones reciting Frederick Douglass's historic speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" with Kaepernick calling the holiday a "celebration of white supremacy."

The video shows images of the Declaration of Independence, slaves, Klu Klux Klan members, lynchings and police brutality as Jones's voice narrates in the background: "Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?"


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To: EagleUSA

You know, I did not even realize that he was black until he started kneeling. I just never thought about it.


61 posted on 07/05/2020 3:08:11 AM PDT by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: suekas

Fine young black man from a white suburban family


62 posted on 07/05/2020 3:23:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Kevin in California

THis has never been about police violence which these celebs heavily depend on to kill any ghetto person trying to wander near their properties, this is about stealing AMerican from the people and shting on the people’s 4th of july.


63 posted on 07/05/2020 4:03:06 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: PLMerite

They should have left him on the island.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7742499/Colin-Kaepernick-speaks-Thanksgiving-Day-criticizes-government.html


64 posted on 07/05/2020 4:19:32 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Kevin in California
LOL! This Arab looking black guy is a millionaire! That’s how racist America is. Only dummycrats fall for these Marxist lies.
65 posted on 07/05/2020 4:25:35 AM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: conservativepoet

Colin- two action verbs and a personal pronoun-


66 posted on 07/05/2020 4:30:34 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: Kevin in California

Another way of saying they’re going after the Constitution.


67 posted on 07/05/2020 5:22:19 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Glad2bnuts

Seems like I read somewhere that it was 13 tons.

Kind of disgusting when you read about it.


68 posted on 07/06/2020 5:09:55 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semitechildren like these people were i)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

It is not lampshades, but not far off. 260,000 lbs That has to be from 500,000 people. THAT is what they stopped and found. Think of the 95% that gets through.


69 posted on 07/06/2020 9:06:39 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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