re: Former LSU safety Eric Reid joins Kaepernick protest

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yes screw them for protesting in a free country

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Everyone knows that they have the right to protest, that doesn't mean we can't think he is a dumbass. If the klan or Nazis have a protest rally do you jump up and down with glee? No. You exercise your right to say they are dumbasses.

Kaepernick has

1. Refused to stand up during the same anthem that MLK, the Tuskegee Airmen and many others have seen fit to stand for. It honors the ideals that our country strives (though sometimes fails) to live up to and recognizes the courage and sacrifice of the men and women (many of whom were and are black) to allow us the opportunity to live under our freedoms.

2. He wears a T-shirt with Fidel Castro on it to speak on it. Are you fricking kidding me. The same guy who would have Kaepernick's arse shot or imprisoned for exercising the right you think is so precious.

3. He says he wants meaningful conversation but he wears socks that depict police officers as pigs. AT WORK.

4. His exact words were"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." He isn't proud of our country? frick him. It isn't perfect but by historic and even modern standards it is a beacon of freedom.

I think that there are absolutely issues that need to be addressed regarding race, police, etc. But I think that unfortunately the conversation has been coopted by a bunch of mental midgets who have seen an opportunity not to win people to their cause with thoughtful discourse but to instead drive a wedge between people in this country with their thoughtless, bigoted, and aggressive rhetoric.