Colin Kaepernick hasn’t backdown from his comments about why he didn’t stand for the National Anthem and he clarified what he thought of people that said he was being disrespectful to the military.
Here is the quote via the Mercury News.
“I have great respect for our men and women that fought for this country,” Kaepernick said. “I have family, I have friends that have fought for this country. And they fight for freedom. They fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
“And that’s not happening. I mean, people are dying in vain because this country is not holding its end of the bargain up as far as giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.
“It’s something that’s not happening. I’ve seen videos, I’ve seen circumstances, where men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated unjustly by the country they fought for, and have been murdered by the country they fought for. On our land. That’s not right.”
I don’t know how anyone can disagree with that, because we have all seen it happening fair too often.