I'm not surprised at all either, but I can't say I have any sympathy for that POV. Plenty of military and people with military connections understand that this isn't about them, and that centering themselves in this is obfuscating the real issue at hand. Plenty of military people also suffer from the very injustices Kaerpernick's trying to point out. It's just a way of silencing black people, even if that's not the conscious intent.