Damn, Ruth Bader Ginsburg just slammed Colin Kaepernick's protest as 'dumb and disrespectful'
On Monday morning, in the midst of the Republican Party’s very public meltdown, Yahoo’s Katie Couric released her half-hour interview with #yasqueen Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was promoting her new book, My Own Words. When the subject of Kaepernick’s national anthem protest was brought up, RBG did not beat around the bush.
Ginsburg told Couric she believed Kaepernick’s protest—in which he, and many others, have taken a knee prior to the national anthem in the name of drawing attention to this country’s many racial injustices—to be “dumb and disrespectful,” and characterized other athletes following his lead as “really dumb of them.” OK, Ruth!
“Would I arrest them for doing it? No,” Ginsburg told Yahoo. “I think it’s dumb and disrespectful. I would have the same answer if you asked me about flag burning. I think it’s a terrible thing to do, but I wouldn’t lock a person up for doing it. I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act.”