Posted on 08/18/2017 5:13:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The National Football League's preseason is underway, and national anthem-hating quarterback Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have an NFL job. One can easily identify the liberal journalists by their anguish over this so-called injustice. You can also identify them by their dishonest arguments.
Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer pulled out a very large straw man on Aug. 17 in a column headlined "Days of Docile Black Athlete Have Ended. Get Used to It." He doubled down in the text, saying: "Sorry for the inconvenience, sports fans, but the days of the docile black athlete are over. This isn't a time to stick to sports. This isn't a time to be afraid because Kaepernick has been blackballed." To argue that Kaepernick's critics want "docile blacks" is character assassination.
Then, Brewer added that the national anthem lasts about two minutes, as does an interview after the game about that anti-American kneeling stunt. He spewed: "If you think that's too much of a distraction from sports -- the ultimate distraction -- you're living an awfully petty life. I'm sorry you didn't get to put extra sprinkles on your ice cream, but there are more important matters."
Brewer surely knows that Kaepernick's antics didn't cause two minutes of liberal concern or conservative outrage. We've had an entire summer of ESPN and other liberal sports pundits like Brewer demanding that Kaepernick somehow has an inalienable right to a job in the NFL after his antics.
Most of these liberals impose their own righteousness about America's "systematic racism" without acknowledging that Kaepernick went beyond this quiet pre-game stance. They ignore that he wore socks in training camp featuring pigs with police hats on them. They ignore that he wore a T-shirt with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on it as he supposedly advocated for freedom of speech.
When challenged by Cuban exile Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald about the T-shirt, Kaepernick proclaimed that communist Cuba was better than America. He said, "One thing that Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system, which we do not do here, even though we're fully capable of doing that."
Salguero called that out as false, as phony as the Castros winning 100 percent of the vote. When he told the quarterback that Castro's regime broke up families (including his own) as they sought to escape, Kaepernick attacked America again. "We do break up families here," he said. "That's what mass incarceration is. That was the foundation of slavery, so our country has been based on that as well as the genocide of Native Americans."
It's not a matter of "extra sprinkles on our ice cream" to smear the police as porcine, racist killers and smear America as founded not on liberty and justice but on slavery and genocide.
But Brewer, that professor of logic, thinks that Kaepernick's complete evisceration of America is somehow what makes this country ... great? He said: "But if America is still America -- beautiful despite some ugly features, slow to evolve but persistent, a compassionate democracy -- history will judge Kaepernick ultimately not as a rogue and defiant objector, but a man ahead of this time who helped spur an important athlete revolution."
What liberal journalists are demanding here is that every famous person in front of a microphone exploit that platform to call for a leftist revolution. Athletes, actors, musicians, reality TV stars and everyone else should always be shilling against the horrid country that America was -- and presently is under the Republicans. "History" (always equated with liberalism) will grade them as heroes ahead of their time.
Docile black athlete?!?
Lol. Okay.
He’s only a hero to you if you’re an anti-American Socialist/Communist POS.
Football fans are patriotic and do not like what Colin did. He’s poison now and the owners know it.
Kap is out of job for one reason and one reason only: The NFL believes his presence cost them $$$$. It’s no more complicated than that. It’s not about ethics or morals or even race. It’s about $$$. Kap drives paying customers away. Any player that did that, would not be welcome. On the other hand, if his antics brought more customers in, they would be happy to have him. It’s called reality. On to the next topic.....
They cease to be multi millionaires when enough of us stop watching, and stop paying high ticket prices.
After being raised by white adoptive parents and paid millions by the 49niners, this knothead copped an anti-American attitude because he wanted in the knickers of his Communist “activist” girlfriend. It’s all about getting some trim, not concern for the plight of the black man in the USA.
Moron and hypocrite.
That's your interpretation. Mine is that he's a self-centered grandstander who doesn't appreciate what's been given to him by this country or the fans who used to support him. Personally, I think much of this was initially done to appease his leftist girlfriend. In the end, I don't care what his motivations are. His lack of respect for the country and its flag means I did not, nor would I, watch any team that had him on their bench. While my little protest goes unnoticed, I think there are millions of other fans who feel much the same.
Remember when identity politics didn’t push it’s ugly snout into every aspect of our lives?
There was a time when we could go to a restaurant, a concert, a football game or walk past a monument a memorial or a historic park without being put upon by bug-eyed raging liberals spewing their hate and venom.
Democrats have torn great holes in the fabric of the nation and our culture by destroying civilty and making every breathing moment about leftist politics.
It’s an American game...
Just a guy raised with priveledge that feels guilty about it trying to prove he is down with the struggle.
Dude obviously needs to go play Canadian ball. Does Montreal have a team? He might fit right in there... for a long time.
I’d like to think he doesn’t have a job because he stinks as a quarterback.
Two more of these assholes have taken his place....so far.
Well...that and he’s a washed up mediocre has been111
I’ve got $500 bucks that says neither Kaepernick or the majority of his followers could pass a 7th grade History test.
The day of the loudmouth asshole athlete is over, too.
Amen to both of you. In addition to copping his anti-American attitude in order to get sex from his Communist girlfriend, the douchebag became a vegan, lost a bunch of muscle mass, and became an even worse QB.
Knothead.
Kapernic is a Soros whore .
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