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Colin Kaepernick's stance
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Colin Kaepernick's no-longer-silent protest of the National Anthem has inspired any number of reactions. Many of them are not calm and some are not very polite. A discussion of race and the American flag in 2016 is not a safe place for rational thinking.
The heated atmosphere surrounding Kap's comments make the response from Nate Boyer, a Green Beret who is technically an NFL free-agent long snapper, even more inspired.
Boyer, who signed with the Seahawks during the 2015 offseason and got to live out his dream of playing in an NFL game (albeit a preseason one), wrote an open letter to Kaepernick at the Army Times.