Your friendly neighborhood idiot.

All these different discussions about Kaepernick's form of peaceful protest, the influence among those who feel the same and the critical judgement from those who "understand" but "don't agree with the form of protest" is nothing new. 

The media always love to use MLK Jr .as an example of peaceful protest but forget even MLK Jr. was judged by those who "understood" the struggle but "didn't agree" with his methods and he called them out for it. Excerpt from the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": 

"First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."