Harbaugh later said on Twitter, “I apologize for misspeaking my true sentiments”. I definitely understand where he’s coming from in choosing to do what he did. “When there’s significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it’s supposed to represent, this country is representing people the way that it’s supposed to, I’ll stand”. “I want to stand and cheer for all the people who’ve lost their life of every religion, race, gender defending that flag”.
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Amid this firestorm, Kaepernick participated in practice, then sat at his locker and amicably talked with fellow quarterback Blaine Gabbert about pass plays.
Kaepernick (left) and Trump (right) are at loggerheads. He is a great athlete. I’m sure he worked hard.
“I just know that I am very thankful to be an American. Let him try. It won’t happen”. He later explained that he did so to protest the oppression of people of color in the United States.
Martin Halloran, the San Francisco Police Officers Association president, sent a letter Monday to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and 49ers CEO Jed York denouncing Kaepernick’s “ill-advised” statements and a “naiveté” and “total lack of sensitivity” toward police, along with an “incredible lack of knowledge” about officer-involved shootings.
Hannity began the segment by calling Kaepernick a “spoiled brat, out of touch, super rich athlete”, and then praised the USA for overcoming the institutional racism that it put in place for two centuries.
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At the U.S. Open tennis tournament in NY, top-ranked American John Isner spoke of Kaepernick after winning his first-round match Monday. I don’t even know where I got it. Who’s that? I’ve never heard of these people. Anyway, it said during the off-season he may have converted to Islam, and he’s also engaged with Black Lives Matter, and I guess hip hop radio personality DJ Nessa Diab?
