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In reply to the discussion: "You don't like what Kaepernick has to say? Then prove him wrong, BE the nation he can respect." [View all]KMOD
(7,906 posts)60. Way out of line, and very rude.
You clearly do not understand the systemic racism in this country and how it affects black people.
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"You don't like what Kaepernick has to say? Then prove him wrong, BE the nation he can respect." [View all]
kpete
Aug 2016
OP
A great nation that took an abandoned interracial child and raised him to be a multimillionaire
Taitertots
Aug 2016
#3
Because he's a multimillionaire whining about how oppressed people like him are.
NuclearDem
Aug 2016
#49
Even Black multimillionaires like Colin get picked-on by the police too, that's how he knows.
Stellar
Aug 2016
#52
Your premise is ill informed. He is not whining about how oppressed people like him are.
Glassunion
Sep 2016
#69
That's an interesting and mostly factual post that is a complete non-sequitur
Taitertots
Sep 2016
#66
It's both odd and ironic that when calling him an idiot, you confuse "evidence" with "proof."
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#9
I have a feeling Kaepernick will be sitting during the National Anthem for a new team soon.
jalan48
Aug 2016
#5
Kaepernick can do what he wants but it's a distraction to his team & an unnecessary lack of respect.
Sunlei
Aug 2016
#12
I am fundamentally opposed to very little...I loathe fundamentalism in ALL its guises, but
Moostache
Aug 2016
#15
So, this is just about football (the game) with you and not about this thread...Or is it.
Stellar
Aug 2016
#44
If Colin want to be shown respect then he should show respect to his first (birth) mother. (eom)
StevieM
Aug 2016
#53
You mean the mother that gave him away at six week old even though his grandparents wanted him,
Stellar
Aug 2016
#54