Kaeperneck filing a grievance

It's talked about more, oddly enough, by the people who believe that social injustice is something that these people have made up in their minds.  They attack the messenger and not the message, going so far as to actually say that the message is something else entirely (it's about social injustice, it's not about protesting the flag/this country).  They say things like "Kaepernick isn't poor, therefore he has no idea about social injustice," which is so perplexingly stupid that I cannot for the life of me see how anybody can repeat it, and yet they do. It's talked about more because that's what people do in this country when they think you are wrong - they change the tune and put words in your mouth.  It's talked about more by people who claim to be constitutional experts when it comes to waving Nazi flags and citing 1st amendment cases, but who disappear like a fart in the wind when someone asks about other constitutional rights that are often ignored, such as due process of law.  

I don't disagree with you about the Redskins and Indians thing, although I'd go so far as to say that people being upset with teams using a mascot of a people who were the victims of mass genocide is not the same thing as taking a knee in the hopes of saying "hey, something is wrong in this country, let's do something about it."  When military personnel are coming out in support of the protesters (and many of them are), then this attack on the form of protest loses its legs.  Plus, black people in this country are REPEATEDLY told that their form of protest is unacceptable so I call bullshit on people attaching this form of protest as it represents a peaceful protest that has generated discussion, whether the right wants to hear it or not.