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# President Obama Wants Colin Kaepernick to Consider ‘Pain’ of Military Families

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_Published 2016-09-29. President Barack Obama wants Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose national anthem protests have spurred similar action across the National Football League, to consider the “pain” of military families._


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## Transcript

There are gonna be a lot of folks who do stuff that we just don't agree with. But as long as they're doing it within the law, then we can voice our opinion objecting to it but it's also their right. And I think that it's also important for us to recognize that Sometimes, [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Out of these controversies, we start getting into a conversation and I want everybody to listen to each other. So I want Mr. Kaepernick and others who are on a knee I want them to listen to the pain that that may cause somebody who, for example, had a spouse or a child who was killed in combat. And why it hurts them to see somebody not standing.

But I also want people to think about the pain that He may be expressing about somebody who's lost a loved one that they think was unfairly shot. And one of the things I always say about American democracy is it can be frustrating. But it's the best system we got.

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