{"id":49406,"date":"2016-09-05T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=49406"},"modified":"2016-09-05T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:26:43","slug":"veterans-take-to-social-media-to-support-colin-kaepernick-blm-activist-sums-it-up-with-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=49406","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Take To Social Media To Support Colin Kaepernick; BLM Activist Sums It Up With Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Kaepernick<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colin Kaepernick has been under harsh criticism since his decision to sit during the national anthem of the 49er\u2019s pre-season game last Friday (Aug. 26), protesting the oppression of people of color in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Many thought it would be distasteful to veterans who have served the nation, but it turns out a bunch back his decision and don\u2019t see any problem with him exercising his right. The hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick exploded on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter activist, Deray McKesson, summed up the controversy pretty well with this political cartoon involving Kaepernick and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-49408\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/colin-kaepernick-and-deray-mckesson\u2019s-cartoon..jpg\" alt=\"colin kaepernick and deray mckesson\u2019s cartoon.\" width=\"153\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/colin-kaepernick-and-deray-mckesson\u2019s-cartoon..jpg 884w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/colin-kaepernick-and-deray-mckesson\u2019s-cartoon.-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/colin-kaepernick-and-deray-mckesson\u2019s-cartoon.-768x662.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drawing by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist Deray Mckesson.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Colin Kaepernick\u00a0 Colin Kaepernick has been under harsh criticism since his decision to sit during the national anthem of the 49er\u2019s pre-season game last Friday (Aug. 26), protesting the oppression of people of color in the United States. Many thought it would be distasteful to veterans who have served the nation, but it turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}