Earlier this week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview that Colin Kaepernick’s protest, and those of the other athletes involved, was “dumb and disrespectful.” She did not begrudge them the right to engage their right to protest, but she did, “strongly take issue with the point of view that they are expressing when they do that.”
Kaepernick was asked about those comments following his first press conference as the 49ers new starting quarterback. Elliott Almond of the San Jose Mercury News appears to have been the person speaking with him, and Kaepernick offered up this:
“It is disappointing to hear a Supreme Court justice call a protest against injustices and oppression ‘stupid, dumb’ in reference to players doing that,” Kaepernick said by his locker after speaking to reporters about taking over for Blaine Gabbert.