Victor Cruz was highly critical of Colin Kaepernick for kneeling against racism, police brutality and a portion of our society that sees minorities as subhumans.

Back in August Cruz said the flag and football were bigger than the social issues Kaepernick was fighting for. He was very dismissive of Kaepernick at the time.

“I think, personally, the flag is the flag,” Cruz said. “Regardless of how you feel about things that are going on in America today, and the things that are going on across the world with gun violence and things of that nature, you’ve got to respect the flag, and you’ve got to stand up with your teammates. It’s bigger than just you, in my opinion. “I think you go up there, you’re with a team, and you go and you know you pledge your allegiance to the flag and sing the national anthem with your team and then you go about your business, whatever your beliefs are.”

Now that Cruz’s teammate Giants fullback Nikita Whitlock’s had his home robbed and vandalized with racial slurs, swastikas and Trump slogans graffitied on his wall, Cruz is starting to realize a real problem exists in our country.

“I think it’s definitely a direct reflection of how this country’s being run and how this country’s reacting maybe to some of the decisions, some of the ways that this country’s being run and things that are being said by people at the helm of this country and at the helm of our day-to-day lives — our day-to-day, from social media all the way up to the White House.” “I think there’s a specific mindset that comes with supporting a guy like Donald Trump and supporting what he stands for, and there’s a certain type of person that comes with that, and I’m not sure that person is always a positive-minded person. You know what I mean? You just have to be careful. As a minority you have to be careful. As a person of influence you have to be careful, and you’ve just got to make sure your family’s safe and give them the knowledge to stay safe in this world.” “I mean, look at this country,” Cruz said. “Joe McKnight dies in the middle of the street, ya know?” “If you’re angry about … my opinion and you’re not angry at guys dying without a care, without being armed, they’re not causing harm, they’re not doing anything wrong, then that’s our issue,” Cruz said. “That’s the problem, is that you’re worried about what someone of influence might be talking about and his opinion rather than attacking the issue at hand. And that’s innocent minorities dying on a daily basis, and dying on a weekly basis, and going through things with their family.”

It is good to see that Cruz has woke up about the things that our happening in our country, it is just sad that it took a teammate going through it for his eyes to be open.

Flip the page to see the destruction that was done to Nikita Whitlock’s home.