Hangzhou, China – President Barack Obama says the NFL quarterback who is refusing to stand for the national anthem is the latest in a long line of professional athletes who have exercised their constitutional right to make a statement about social issues.
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The president was asked at a news conference Monday about Colin Kaepernick’s protest gesture. Obama said he has no doubt that the San Francisco 49ers player is sincere and “cares about some real, legitimate issues.”
Kaepernick has been heavily criticized since starting his silent protest. He’s said it’s not an anti-American gesture but a means to bring attention to racial injustice.
Obama says he hasn’t paid close attention to the matter. But he adds approvingly that Kaepernick has generated more national conversation about “issues that need to be talked about.”
Yeah, Yeah,Yeah… If he’d have a son…
Shameful!
Waiting for BHO, K, and BLM to protest NYC West Indian Day shooting deaths–or BLM frauds only count with white shooters involved !!! DMD
why should this surprise us,after all this traitorous make believe president sat in Rev.Wright’s church for over 20 years where at the end of every sermon that traitorous swine declared “in this church we don’t say “God bless America” we say God damn America .
And to think that the American people voted not once but twice for this traitorous America hater
I understand his protest too, Kaepernack is a Muslim and hates the USA.
If it is anti-American, Obama understands it.