He also told reporters on Tuesday that he will donate $100,000 a month for the next 10 months and is setting up a web site so the public can track how the money is spent.
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Colin Kaepernick has his eye on the prize and nothing can distract him from that – not even something as disgusting as a death threat.
As he approaches the window, one officer fires a stun gun, while another fatally shoots him.
He also spoke out on Tuesday about the death of Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man who was shot dead by police on Friday.
Kaepernick’s protest has been national news since it first became public August 26 and even has been a talking point during the U.S. Presidential race.
People can criticize Kaepernick all they want, but the one thing that you absolutely cannot say is that he’s not trying to back up his words with actions. “From the video that I saw, even with the way he was being referred to, I mean there is this dehumanization going on on the audio, and people seem to be more outraged by an National Football League player taking a knee than the murder or killing of an unarmed black man”. “I think it’ll be very telling what happens with the officer that killed him”.
With the now-infamous words, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color”, he has made a name for himself as a supporter of the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Furthermore, plenty of veterans support his protest. “I don’t know why that is or what they’re scared of, but it needs to be addressed”. “That’s not something I haven’t thought about”.
At the 49ers’ game Sunday in Charlotte, N.C., Kaepernick received verbal and visible taunts from fans before and at halftime as he left the field in the 49ers’ eventual 47-26 loss to the Carolina Panthers. I don’t think that by acknowledging as a white male that America isn’t the same for me, maybe, as it is for everybody, the same great place, that we’re complicit in the problem or that we’re saying America isn’t a great place. “It would be loud and clear for everyone why it happened”. Regardless if you agree or don’t agree, that does not give people the right to sent death threats.
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“It’s something they either don’t care about it or they don’t understand it, which I find it very hard that people don’t understand what’s going on”, Kaepernick said.
