Posted on 11/29/2017 9:17:29 AM PST by Kaslin
In August of 2016, Colin Kaepernick was asked by Nick Wagoner, ESPN Staff Writer, “Will you continue to sit?”
“Yes, I'll continue to sit,” said Kaepernick, “I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. To me, this is something that must change. When there's significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent, this country is representing people the way that it's supposed to, I'll stand.”
So it began, late summer 2016, the eighth year of the Obama presidency. The kneeling was intended to provoke, and it did. By declaring America to be trapped in a nightmare world of police brutality and racial injustice, Kaepernick insulted the fans. In the process, he proved to those of us who know more than he does just how little he understands about America.
Colin, did you know what you were doing when you started this? Did you know the nature of the people you were accusing? Did you stop to think about the world as it actually exists?
As a biracial child, raised by a white couple, educated at a predominantly white university, paid millions to play a game, supported by white fans, you turn around and call the nation “racist?” People like me are offended because we were there for the Jim Crow years. Want to talk about racial injustice? It’s offensive when you claim that those who oppose your protest are racists or sellouts. It’s much deeper than that.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Who cares?
Is this the same ESPN that’s eliminating 150 studio, production jobs in latest cuts? They just can’t add 2+2 can they.
There...fixed. I'm so bored with him and what he has to say that I'm reduced to correcting his English.
My thoughts exactly. He can sit, stand, until blood comes out his whatever. The National Felons League has exposed itself as anti-America.
He will continue to sit at home watching football on his TV instead of being on the field. No team is going to hire this guy.
“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
— Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament
Supposedly he was a 4.0 student in high school. It is interesting that you can seldom find info if any of these guys graduated from college. Sadly, a fair percentage of them do not. Across all levels of college athletics, the graduation rates are low though higher in Division I. Wooten was very concerned with his athletes graduating. He would tell them their primary purpose at the school is to get an education. Most think their primary purpose is to play ball and go pro, though the odds are very slim.
**YAWN**
Anti-American is right. They are showing themselves to be be nothing if not the super-wealthy version of “ANTIFA”.
The NFL has been taken over by money, moved to the Left, run by Leftist gazillionaires, and is NOW mostly a work release program for overweight felons.
It really should be treated as such, and the truth should have its voice. They deserve boycott, or otherwise they’re endlessly indulged and totally unaccountable.
What chance for reform is there if Goodell is allowed to remain and owners allowed to continue putting money first, before American sport ideals and tradition?
Someone needs to ask the NFL kneelers their definition of oppressed and who exactly is being oppressed and how are they being oppressed. My guess is their answer will be the black and Hispanic people are oppressed because there is an inordinate number of them incarcerated than white people. Well take a guess at which two ethnic groups commit most of the crimes. That’s how a meritocracy works. Those who can do, do and those who choose to create victims as a career go to effing jail. It’s that simple.
I still would rather have Tim Tebow than him as my quarterback. Classier also.
The Democrat Party in San Francisco will pick him up in a heart beat. I expect to hear at any time that he's running for a political office in San Francisco in the next election.
Look out Nancy, here comes Colin.
The NFL has Colin cancer. The disease has spread throughout the League, and it’s terminal. I hope someone puts them out of our misery soon.
At first I thought that the last word in the title had an “h” in it, lol.
Yep - He’ll continue to sit on his couch Sunday afternoons!
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