(09-21-2017, 11:28 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(09-21-2017, 10:50 AM)Etdavis2006 Wrote: I wanted to say this in the Nassib thread but that was not the proper place to say this.

Has anyone here actually even bothered to know why Keapernick is taking a knee? Let me say something I doubt most people even know he said. He said that everyday 22 veterans are committing suicide. They go and fight for this country because they made a promise but then they come back and the country doesn't hold up its promise to take care of them. The country is taking care of those who defend it. There are many homeless veterans who do not have access to the service they earned fighting for this country. Once this country and flags keeps its promise to them then he will start standing again.

This was something straight from his mouth but for some reason folks are just focused on the racial aspect of it. If you don't support our veterans getting the services they need when they put their lives on the line for this country then you hate American period. If you do not support his protest for the veterans then you are worse than those trying to destroy this country.

That is all.

Funny how no one ever mentioned that until now. Do you have a link? (preferable a video of him saying that, not a link to someone else claiming he said it)

Is that also why he prefers Castro's Cuba to the US? Is that also why he wears pig-cop socks?

See part of the problem is we live in our own little bubbles and we only take in what we want to take in that fits our narratives. He talks about it around the 5:00 minute mark although I would urge you to listen to everything have has to say. My frustration lies in extacly what you said, no one ever brings this up. You are correct, cause it doesn't fit the narrative they want to discuss even those who support him. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AoMj2C1OdrM

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