Former Green Beret Nate Boyer, who advised Colin Kaepernick to kneel, reacts to Drew Brees' protest
The former Green Beret who in 2016 advised Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the pregame national anthem to protest police brutality and social injustice spoke out on Drew Brees' controversial comments about that practice.
Nate Boyer -- a long snapper for the University of Texas following his Army service who played for the Seattle Seahawks in the 2015 preseason -- told San Diego's 97.3 The Fan on Thursday:
"I'll just speak on the Drew Brees thing really quickly – he's a really good dude, man. He does a lot for the city of New Orleans ... Even what he said in his response, well, he said what he said, so I don't know what he meant exactly. But I absolutely don't think he meant to ostracize himself or make this issue about something that it's not.
"But the fact of the matter is that we've gotta ... make sure that the narrative is understood that the protests are about racial inequality, social injustice and police brutality, and that kneeling during the anthem was a mechanism to raise that attention and to get those voices heard. But it's not about disrespecting the flag or disrespecting the military, and I think Drew knows that.”
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