“Oh, I just got all my stuff back/Cops are pigs again, cops are pigs/Colin Kaepernick’s a good backup…” The two recently spoke via telephone.
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“I would ask him to really have a conversation with the families of people that have been murdered and see if he still feels that way, because I bet you he hasn’t just because he hasn’t experienced that type of oppression”.
“More than half of my life was living – I don’t want to say in poverty – but living in the inner city”.
“For me, it was something that I couldn’t see another ‘hashtag Sandra Bland, hashtag Tamir Rice, hashtag Walter Scott, hashtag Eric Garner, ‘ the list goes on and on and on”, Kaepernick said.
In addition to Kaepernick, Niners safety Antoine Bethea and linebacker Eli Harold joined their teammate Monday night by holding up fists. I suppose that most places and groups that do this think they a respecting the flag by displaying it in this manner.
In a new video of his Friday concert at Fenway Park in Boston, the singer stopped in the middle of singing “Born Free” to say “F-k Colin Kaepernick”.
Kaepernick – who is of mixed race – was protesting what he considers racist police practices and behavior throughout the United States. “They’re out of the loop, because they’re no longer hot copy”. But there’s a lot of work to be done. Use this as an opportunity to educate yourself as to why African-American people are so upset over police brutality.
South Park Studios released a new promo on Tuesday that reveals the residents of the Colorado town reciting a modified version of the National Anthem. “So if you want to be effective, the work has to be done”.
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On opening day of the National Football League on Sunday, four Miami Dolphins knelt next to each other in a line with their teammates standing next to them. Trent Dilfer is one of those people who told Kaep, in so many words, to shut up, and Colin had a predictably appropriate and thoughtful response. “They just look at now you’re making all this money”. “But in the major scheme of things, there are things going on right now that people are putting their money and time behind”.
