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re: Colin Kap converted to Islam and is engaged to BLM activist
Posted on 8/27/16 at 11:52 pm to saintsfan22
Posted on 8/27/16 at 11:52 pm to saintsfan22
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Kaepernick is a 28-year-old biracial man who was raised by the white parents who adopted him, and who believes he can no longer remain silent in a country where young, black men are too often shot by overheated cops, and where blacks are forever asked by whites to rise above obstacles that whites themselves created.
African-American athletes are often asked (unfairly, perhaps) to speak out on social issues and, well, Kaepernick just did. If you don't like what the man did or said, that's your prerogative. But telling him that what he said and did was un-American is to lose sight of what it means to be an American.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 12:10 am to tduecen
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African-American athletes are often asked (unfairly, perhaps) to speak out on social issues and, well, Kaepernick just did. If you don't like what the man did or said, that's your prerogative. But telling him that what he said and did was un-American is to lose sight of what it means to be an American.
They are asked by some - mostly people who expect them to consider themselves a member of their race first, and whatever else they are (gender, religion, philosophy, politics, nation of origin) second.
There are some ungrateful counts in our history as well. So yes, it is American for wealthy people of privilege to fail to understand how lucky they are. Not all American traits are to be emulated.
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