Doyle on Kaepernick

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Originally Posted by rm1369

Lee Atwater had a fairly famous quote that I believe applies to what I believe about the situation. It goes right along with the cries about “erasing history” when taking down monuments to confederate soldiers while also passing anti-CRT legislation to make sure you control how history is taught. The venn diagram for those three things would nearly be a circle. And to be fair, some of it isn’t blatant racism, it’s willful indifference. Willful indifference on the treatment of fellow Americans by people so caught up in “patriotism” they foam at the mouth when someone quietly kneels.

There are black guys who knelt during the anthem who are still playing today. It’s not about race for most people.

World War 2 was just a generation ago, Vietnam and Korea less than a generation. A LOT of people had family members or know people who fought and died in those wars. The flag means a whole hell of a lot to them. Same for people who are in the military now.

It’s pretty unfair to label all those people as racist.