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Mon Jun 8, 2020, 04:20 PM Jun 2020

Ben Carson Echoes Trump Administration's Ignorant Response To Kneeling Protests

Ben Carson, President Donald Trump’s secretary of housing and urban development, on Sunday suggested that NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to protest police violence should thank the military in the process.

Carson’s comments appear to miss the point of the protests and back up his boss’ disdain for them at a time when kneeling ― a symbolic act of protest developed by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, teammate Eric Reid and former Green Beret Nate Boyer ― is becoming more widely accepted.

“If those players were to come out and say, ‘We love our nation. We are patriots. We love our flag. We honor the memory of those who died to give us our freedom, but we are protesting some of the brutality that has occurred, and that’s why we’re doing this,’ I think it would solve the problem,” Carson told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And I suggest they do that,” Carson added.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ben-carson-continues-trump-administrations-ignorance-about-kneeling-protests-192653051.html

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