New NC Governor’s top advisor: Kaepernick is “refreshing,” we shouldn’t “honor warriors”

North Carolina’s governor-elect Roy Cooper recently chose Ken Eudy as his senior advisor. Eudy is an outspoken anti-military advocate and political insider. He’s also been accused of participating in pay-to-play politics.

In a recent op-ed, Eudy praised NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest and called it “refreshing.” He also added that American society views military members “too highly.” Eudy also added that he remains seated whenever fans stand and show respect to men and women serving in the military.

“I sit simply because I think it odd that, of all the categories of Americans that we honor, we honor warriors,” Eudy declared in the article.

Eudy also had a sympathetic message to Kaepernick’s protest and the Black Lives Matter narrative in general. He stated that the duty of police officers to serve and protect is “fiction” when it comes to “black and brown children.”

“In this country, there are demonstrable differences in the rate at which people of color are incarcerated, unemployed and even shot by their law enforcement officers who are sworn to protect citizens,” claimed Eudy.