I mean he calls himself a patriot and says his protest was miss understood, and then he posts his July 4th tweet. Ether heās not saying what he believes, or heās contradicting himself. Either way those arenāt admirable characteristics.
So why would anyone support him?
Dear
Rocko
I would TOTALLY support Kaepernick in approaching these issues he champions
IN THE RIGHT WAY to be effective and unifying.
Lord knows we NEED unity among leadership to solve problems
with economic and educational disparity in this country.
However, what he used in order to troll and incite publicity
was at HURTFUL and INSULTING as using BLACKFACE
to try to make a statement.
Many people don't understand how that is hurtful, and think it's just free speech also.
But it is HIGHLY VOLATILE and causes so much offense it loses whatever intent was meant
and just sends a NEGATIVE disrespectful message.
Kaepernick needs to know that regardless what he was focused on,
the insult and injury went a totally different direction.
I'd be GLAD to work with him and his supporters AND opponents
to straighten out whatever can of worms, or wounds, he opened up with his protests.
The same lens it would take for me to look through
to see this as "free speech and freedom of expression" would also make it okay to wear Blackface and wave Stars and Bars flags as freedom of expression "as long as there is no disrespectful INTENT."
I'm okay with that if others are okay.
But if they can't agree, we should resolve these issues first, to establish equal respect for each other instead of confusing each other's intent.