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Brilliant_Rock
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Hmmm... I don't expect any symbolic gesture of protest (especially one as low-key as kneeling on the sidelines of a field before the game begins) to promptly effectuate change. Nor I do consider a protest synonymous with "good works."
In any event, between October 2016 and June 2017, Colin Kaepernick gave $900,000 to, e.g., Meals on Wheels America; famine relief in Turkey; Mothers Against Police Brutality for headstones and family support programs; crime victims' & youth groups; a fledgling health clinic on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation; urban farming & better nutrition education plus cooking classes in Minneapolis; a nonprofit in Brooklyn that assists black military veterans with housing and employment; 100 Suits for 100 Men (like Dress for Success, but serving recently released inmates); NYC's Coalition for the Homeless.
A sum 90x greater that Trump's lone gift of $5000 - 9,999 (to the NYC Police Athletic League) over the course of the 7+ years between January 1, 2009, when Trump stopped paying money into his private foundation & late May 2016, when he finally made good on his declaration in January that he was giving $1 million of his own money to veterans groups.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.4115abf69175
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...erans-group/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.ebce5a1d54a9
Not only that, but he has lost and still don't have a job likely because of his protest. So, no, it's not that easy.