so you dont believe that he genuinely has an issue and this is just virtue signalling?
you cant fathom why anyone would have a problem with it?
im not saying you have to agree with them but can you seriously not understand why there are groups who have grievances...?
I understand why these groups have grievances. There's plenty at history to be mad at, but most advances in this country have been done by terrible means. Look back at any of human history. It's nothing but war, disease, death, and slavery. A lot of medical advances in this country were done through illegal experimentation and combining illegal substances together. Most of the developed world, whether it be the United States or most of Europe, Asia, was built off of the backs of racism and slavery in some way, shape, or form. Should we abandon those too? Should we tear down all the buildings?
History should never be forgotten. That's a message that's actually worth spreading. A message people
should be spreading. People who were going to wear this shoe aren't going to be white supremacists. Celebrating America is nothing to apologize for. That's a sparsely small fraction of the U.S population who are racist, xenaphobic.
And I'm sorry, but the country, as a whole, has moved forward. From a legal perspective, our
federal government has done everything it's supposed to. To believe you can completely eradicate racism, sexism, homophobia, etc is hilariously naive. Those things should
never be condoned, but life is not fair. Some people in the world just suck. Sorry, not sorry, it's true.
But this is virtue signaling to the highest order. And he's clearly trying to grab attention here. No one has heard from him in months. This is no different from when he praised Fidel Castro, a
very oppressive world leader who unless Donald Trump was also a serial killer, could
never be worse than. I doubt he believes it. I doubt that's the case here. Why do I say that? Most Americans don't even know what that flag is, and if they learned it, that was from decades ago. Most Americans don't even know who
Betsy Ross is. They'll probably think she's the Incredible Hulk's love interest(Betty Ross). Most Americans, myself included, would have ignored this (sorry fly) ugly-ass shoe and it probably would've been a failure. Kaepernick is making a mountain out of a molehill. The people who are mad, get mad at almost any instance. Getting mad at every little thing accomplishes nothing. That flag is
not a symbol of racism, sexism, etc. It never was.
