The Navy SEALs will no longer support the National Navy SEALs Museum in Florida … this, after the organization used a man in a Colin Kaepernick jersey as a target for a dog training demonstration. The videos went viral over the weekend … showing the man in pads and a Kap 49ers jersey being attacked […]
NAVY SEALS SEVER TIES WITH MUSEUM After Kaepernick Demonstration Goes Viral — 360APROKO
msamba 
Really now?
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I took it that to not sever ties would be to endorse the (racist) sentiments in the video, and prevent association of the museum with such views in the future? Which would be why they condemned the video in the strongest terms. The videographers were EX Navy Seals.
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I did not get the racist implications, I just thought they were competing clubs. It just shows me that I should be more careful …
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Colin Kaepernick made the meme of kneeling instead of standing respectfully during renditions of the American national anthem popular , kept alive by Trump’s (barely veiled racist) comments and then adopted as part of contemporary progressive normal gestures at protest after the killing of George Floyd by the global Black Lives Matter movements.
But as neither of us is American and that was a while back, it’s easy to lose track (especially with the tacit double negative Videographers ≠ Navy Seals ≠the museum {although as far as I know the museum haven’t weighed in})!
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Thanks for reminding me! There are some habits in America, where I don’t understand, why people would be offended by that, racial and not racial, because I don’t know the background.
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Always remember American schoolchildren salute the flag every morning…
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I have seen that on TV, and it reminds me very much of the former DDR.
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