Allow me to add yet another perspective. In 1988, I was coaching baseball in the former Soviet Union. I asked those young men why they were playing baseball and the majority told me that they were forced to play. Some said that not only were they forced to play but also if they didn't do well, they would never see their families again. The time I had there was too brief and very intense. I got close to a bunch of those young men. All of them wanted to come to America. They wanted the freedoms we have here. Many were from areas that had been subjugated.
On July 4th, 1988, some of those young men went out to the flag pole of a soccer stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania, four of those young men lowered the Soviet Flag and ran up the Star Spangled Banner to honor me and our country. They were all arrested. I have been told one died as he was sent to Afghanistan. Kapernick states that people are oppressed in America. He has no clue.