Donald Trump is missing the point when he says that [Colin] Kaepernick should "find a country that works better for him." Instead, Kaepernick believes so deeply in this country that he is willing to offer correction rather than abandon the nation -- and to donate a million dollars in support of racial justice causes. But innocent whiteness recoils at such instruction. It pushes back against the notion that it could possibly learn anything from a black body kneeling on white sacred territory. But it is that same territory that profanes and then swallows the bodies of unarmed black folk. We must see Kaepernick's criticism as love -- the tough love that America needs.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop, p. 115
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