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Colin Kaepernick: 'I am not going to value a piece of cloth over people’s lives'

Colin Kaepernick does not believe it is Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s place to be commenting on his protests of what he sees as excessive police violence against black people.

At least if she disagrees with his actions.

“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 in the 49ers locker room Wednesday, per the San Jose Mercury News.

Ginsburg, a Democrat, was asked by Yahoo News’ Katie Couric what she thought of Kaepernick and other athletes kneeling during the national anthem.