It's worth noting that RBG

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:16:00 +0000

It's worth noting that RBG isn't who we'd usually associate with a flag waving nutty patriot, so taking her comment at face value as sincere helps us understand this type of patriotism a bit better (and allows us to better communicate with it). Also no doubt RBG considered the struggles of Kap's parents and grandparents in making that comment, not automatically assigning them to a different category. Or maybe she didn't - should it make a difference? (Kap's mom was white, father was unknown Ghana, adoptive parents both white, moved from Wisconsin to California early on to give him all sorts of opportunity...)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick

[reading his bio, the dude seems incredibly gifted athletically and intellectually. Frankly it'd be a real shame if the last 5 years became his only marker.]

Excerpt, what Ruth Bader

artappraiser — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:04:24 +0000

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Excerpt, what Ruth Bader Ginsburg said about pro-football players like Kaepernick

While many A-listers come up for criticism in her telling, the biggest revelation in the book is one that arguably reflects poorly on the author herself: In a passage first leaked by the Daily Mail, Couric writes that she once selectively edited an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg to “protect” the Supreme Court justice’s reputation.

Couric writes that Ginsburg, who died last year, told her during an interview for Yahoo in 2016 that professional football players such as Colin Kaepernick, who knelt during the national anthem to protest systemic racism, showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.” While Couric included some of Ginsburg’s criticism in the finished product, she decided to leave out that particular barb, concerned that it would besmirch the reputation of someone she was a “fan” of. In hindsight, she calls it a failure of her long effort to keep her personal feelings and politics “in check.”

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It's worth noting that RBG

Excerpt, what Ruth Bader