Kaepernick actually reminds me a lot of a Vietnam veteran whom I encountered by chance on the streets of San Diego twenty five years ago or so.  

Yeah, yeah... the old stereotype about how all black guys look alike... guilty.

Will never forget how angry he was after fighting for his country, getting injured and then feeling totally abandoned.  The only person who had listened to him at all on that day was some some naive, white kid from Nova Scotia who really had little idea what he had gone through while in Vietnam and what problems he had faced since coming back to America after the war.  This was, of course, back in the day when people actually talked to each other face to face... not tweeted at each other at a distance.

There is significance in everyone's actions if we can only make an effort to listen to appreciate what it's like to walk in another man's shoes.

We don't all need to be knee jerks here.