“We have too many Americans now accepting the notion that the flag should be a place where people should be ashamed of or take a knee, that’s what it comes down to,” Burgess Owens, who played for the New York Jets in the 1970s said.
"We’re willing to have the distraction of a Marxist, a Castro loving Marxist to come back and play that many Americans don’t want to see him play,” Owens said.
Owens said he is disheartened to see professional athletes taking part in what he described as a vilification of America.
“I am disappointed that so many people are acquiescing today. They don’t understand the American way; they don’t understand the price paid," Owens said.
"My message to Colin Kaepernick is learn your history," he said. "Karl Marx says something very simply back in the 1800s, and that's showing itself true today, and that's the first battleground is the rewriting of history. [The flag] represents everything that we as Americans want to have."
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