Last week, President Trump ordered a strike which ultimately prompted the death of Qassem Solemani, an Iranian general and known terrorist. Reactions to the strike and Solemani’s death are diverse and varied, to say the least.
Many folks in America lauded the president for the strike, noting Solemani’s war crimes and murder against countless Americans. Others took issue with the strike, stating that it could trigger war with Iran, thus placing lives of military members in peril.
However, former football player Colin Kaepernick took matters in an entirely different direction. Over the weekend, Kaepernick took to Twitter, accusing America of “terrorist attacks” against brown and black people.
A Closer Look at Kaepernick’s Perception of the United States
In the former football player’s tweets, he painted America as this dark, evil, and oppressive place that loathes racial minorities. He stated that there was “nothing new” about the United States supposedly “terrorizing” non-white folks. Kaepernick then claimed that the nation’s alleged “terrorist attacks” against people of color occur for the sake of expanding American “imperialism.”
