Randy Orton Talks Colin Kaepernick Not Standing For The National Anthem, His Bad Conduct Discharge

Source: Heated Conversations

WWE Superstar Randy Orton was recently a guest on Booker T’s radio show Heated Conversations on Houston’s Sports Radio 610. You can check out some highlights from Orton’s conversation with Booker below:

Orton clarifies his comments on Twitter regarding people not standing during the National Anthem amongst the recent police shootings going on across the United States:

“I basically said that Americans are dying, no matter the color of their skin, Americans are dying. And I also said courage is what it takes to stand up and fight, not kneel or raise the fist during the National Anthem. I got a lot of backlash, the comments that I saw the most were ‘how can you speak about courage and stand up and fight, when you got a bad conduct discharge from the United States Marine Corps?’ And I’d like to address that first off. That was 18-years ago Book, I was 18-years-old. Went straight into the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp out in San Diego, California. I graduated boot camp with a meritorious promotion, went on to the school of infantry where I was a squad leader and a guide. And when I went to the fleet — and I’m not here to talk about all the negative things I saw that made me come to this realization — but there were things that I wasn’t proud of seeing or proud of being a part of. But what I realized was that I didn’t have …

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