Nobody was saying Kaepernick didn't have a right to protest. People objected to location and timing. Not the actual protest.

Actually, I objected to what he was protesting too.

And that's fine. That's why you have a right to counter protest. The point is no one said "Kaepernick doesn't have a right to protest"

Location and timing was precisely the point.

Protests aren’t effective if they’re not visible.

Celebrities are always visible. I still see the idiot on television and in the news even though he is no longer on the sidelines taking a knee.

Weird. That kinda blows a huge hole in your reasoning.

Because he’s not playing football, that’s for damn sure

The League made sure of that

So I’d chalk K.’s continued cultural relevance, whatever it may be, up to the principled stands he’s taken and smart career moves he’s made, despite being blackballed from the game he spent his entire life training to play

You are awful at reading.

This isn't about Kaepernick not playing anymore. I clearly said, famous people have a huge platform to be heard from, and it doesn't require being on the sidelines of the NFL. Which means any protest he would have made, from any location outside an NFL game would have been see s.

You were talking about Kaepernick's visibility, and I'm saying it continues to this day, in whatever form it does, in large part because he took a knee in the first place. That's pretty hard to deny.

But all of this misses the point, really.

Every moment wasted complaining about the time, place, and manner of Kaepernick's protest is a moment dedicated to assuaging one's own hurt feelings, that could have been more productively spent in contemplation of the ongoing injustices against minorities in America that he protested against in the first place.

Which include, without limitation: Deep income inequality, even deeper wealth inequality; educational inequality, de facto segregation in our nation's largest cities, over/under-policing of neighborhoods, and overt racism/bigotry.

If you don't want to talk about some of those, then I'm done wasting my time here.

"You were talking about Kaepernick's visibility, and I'm saying it continues to this day, in whatever form it does, in large part because he took a knee in the first place. "

FALSE...It continues today because he is a celebrity, and he was a celebrity BEFORE taking a knee with an already enormous platform. He didn't need to protest the national anthem on the sidelines. He would have been seen had he protested out in front of any government building.

As someone wise put it: If you feel like you’re struggling to pay the bills right now, that you can’t step outside without jeopardizing your life, that the police could arrest you at any moment, and that the government doesn’t care, welcome to being black in America.

White folks have had to put up with one whole month of this now, and some of them are melting like snowflakes.

And some of these protestors have demonstrated they are perfectly willing to — in effect — commit suicide and/or murder other Americans just to be able to again have the freedom to get their hair cut at Great Clips or dine out at Applebee’s or buy Christmas trim or whatever they were planning to do in the retail shops that are now closed.

I thought theyhated him because he's a racist bigoted c**t.