San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has declared he will “continue to sit” during the United States national anthem.
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Actor and rare Hollywood conservative James Woods has a message for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick – the American flag doesn’t need you to stand up for it.
The twitterverse backlash was immediate and strident, and went straight for Stewart’s jugular: focusing on the 2014 incident at a sprint vehicle race in Canadaigua, NY, in which a fellow sprint auto racer Kevin Ward was killed by Stewart’s race vehicle. I find it rather interesting that the National Football League has no issue disrespecting law enforcement officers but only “encourages” players to respect the symbol of our nation, the American flag, and our anthem, the Star Spangled Banner. Good thing we both get paid when we are too banged up to “play”, huh? “Don’t disrespect the whole country or the organization that’s paying you millions of dollars”.
Modkins’ first impression of Kaepernick’s debut Friday in the new offense: “I think Colin was a lot like the rest of our offense – inconsistent”.
The 28-year-old athlete declared he would stand when he feels “like that flag represents what it’s supposed to represent, and this country is representing people the way it’s supposed to – I’ll stand”. Absolutely. In my opinion, the action was disrespectful to the millions of men and women who fought and died for him to have the right to do that.
In his 1972 autobiography, “I Never Had It Made”, Jackie Robinson detailed the moment he realized he could not “stand and sing the anthem” or “salute the flag”.
The Arizona Cardinals’ Bruce Arians was among several coaches to debate Kaepernick’s protest. That doesn’t make sense to me.
Colin Kaepernick offends me, but I’ll defend him, and I’ll even give him props for having the guts to stand up for his beliefs, misguided as they are.
“This country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all – and it’s not happening for all right now”, Kaepernick told the media Sunday, as reported by NBC. “I’m an American citizen, I pay my taxes, I want my equal rights but this is my country, and consequently I don’t want to open up for ISIS or anybody that will take away what we’ve already gained”. “Offensively I think we were all like that”.
Trump: “We have a country that is so divided”. And that needs to be acknowledged and that needs to be changed.
Kaepernick: “This is because I’m seeing things happen to people that don’t have a voice, people that don’t have a platform to talk and have their voices heard, and effect change”.
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No reasonable, patriotic American condones the unnecessary taking of a life – regardless of race – and should certainly understand the right to peacefully protest in whatever form that takes. “So I’m in a position where I can do that, and I’m going to do that for people that can’t”.
