Colin Kaepernick Says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is 'Disappointing'

Ouch.

(Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images)

(Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images)

It is disappointing to hear a Supreme Court justice call a protest against injustices and oppression ‘stupid, dumb’ in reference to players doing that.

I was reading an article and it refers to white critique of black protests and how they try to delegitimize it by calling it ‘idiotic, dumb, stupid,’ things of that nature, so they can sidestep the real issue. As I was reading that I saw more and more truth how this has been approached by people in power and white people in power in particular.

[P]eople are getting too caught up in the flag. At the end of the day the flag is just a piece of cloth and I am not going to value a piece of cloth over people’s lives. That’s just not something I can do, it’s not something I feel morally right doing and my character won’t allow me to do that.

— San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, in response to remarks from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about his refusal to stand during the national anthem at football games. Earlier this week, Justice Ginsburg referred to Kaepernick’s peaceful protest of police brutality as “dumb and disrespectful.”


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