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(07-04-2019, 03:29 PM)GMDino Wrote:

“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.”
- Frederick Douglass pic.twitter.com/IWLujGCJHn

— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2019

The speech was about slavery still being a thing in the South at the time, having long been abolished in the North. Hence the shocking and bloody.

-9 years later, over 365,000 Americans give their lives and another 282,000+ Americans are wounded while sharing his wishes.
-1 year later, Emancipation Proclamation.
-83 years later, another 405,000+ Americans give their lives and another 670,000+ Americans are wounded while keeping the world a free place.
-74 years later, a spoiled brat who grew up wanting for nothing who made tens of millions of dollars playing a game, tweets this out in order to pointlessly stir shit on our national holiday, probably right before going to cash his millions of dollars in endorsement money from a company that literally exploits child labor, underpaid labor, and has sweat shops.