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Colin Kaernick Persuasive Speech

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We all know Colin Kaepernick. If you don 't, I will tell you. He is a quarterback in the NFL and he plays for San Francisco 49ers. He is the one that started the movement for kneeling during the national anthem. He thinks that he is starting a movement for Blacks but all he is doing is dividing the country even more. Blacks are being treated terrible because of their skin. It is 2016 and there should be no discrimination whatsoever. There is so many ways you could show your protests in peaceful ways, but Colin Kaepernick chose the wrong way to protest which angered America
Blacks in the U.S. have been discriminated and hated because of their race. According to THE HUFFINGTON POST there has been approximately 194 Blacks killed by cops in 2016.

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