re: How can you cognitively dissociate the our less glamous deeds from our ideals?

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Maybe not to the pure extent of their original manifestation, but perhaps in a way doesn't allow us to move on fully from our past.

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In a civil society, there must be a social contract between the state and the citizen. Past wrongs that are perpetuated by the state should evolve over time; it's the citizen's responsibility, however, to trust the state's judgment and exercise prudent, discretionary action in response. I see no visible reason for the particular act of civil disobedience by Kaepernick as a prudent response to any judgment by the existing state.