Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has called the protest started by San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick “dumb and disrespectful.”
Ginsburg likened the protest of not standing during the national anthem to something like flag burning: not illegal in any way, but “a terrible thing to do.”
“I would have the same answer if you asked me about flag burning,” she said. "I think it’s a terrible thing to do. I wouldn’t lock up a person for doing it."
“If they want to be stupid, there’s no law that should be preventive. If they want to be arrogant, there’s no law that prevents them from that.”
Kaepernick, upon hearing Ginsburg’s criticisms, said “it is disappointing to hear a Supreme Court justice call a protest against injustices and oppression ‘stupid, dumb’ in reference to players doing that.”
He feels that people “are getting too caught up in the flag,” and that “At the end of the day, the flag is just a piece of cloth, and I am not going to value a piece of cloth over people’s lives.”
Sorry Kaepernick, but when one of the most liberal judges on the Supreme Court says you are being “dumb and disrespectful,” it might be time to take a hard look in the mirror.
Last month, a YouGov poll showed that most Americans, 57 percent, disapproved of Kaepernick’s protest, but was sharply divided on racial lines. A full 69 percent of whites said they disapproved compared with 23 percent who said they did. Conversely, a large majority of African-Americans approved of the protest (72 percent) compared to just 19 percent who said they didn't.
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