Crapernick is a bum.. BLM wanna be and he's not even black.. LOL.... Raised by white parents..
Hope he gets cut.. No place in the NFL for that kind of behavior... NFL is an American sports tradition and represents all the good of the Country and not the bad.
Colin Kaepernick’s deliberate act of protest to sit out the national anthem caught the nation’s attention, and this initial sentence framed most media headlines: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color.” But the meat of Kaepernick’s cause actually came two sentences later: “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” Hold it right there: “Getting away with murder." That is the story. There is no need to interpret why Kaepernick is not standing for the anthem — he has told us. In taking a baton handoff from Carmelo Anthony and the incredibly underrated WNBA protests, Kaepernick has used the most specific language on police accountability of any recent athlete. Kaepernick is recentering police accountability with crystal clarity. “Accountability” is not the “murder” part, it’s the “getting away with” part. Why is the word “accountability” so hard for Kaeper-critics to understand? Because criticizing Kaepernick is dependent on not understanding it. They can’t criticize lack of police accountability, so they change the subject. So they bring up crime. But civilians go to prison in droves while police who murder almost never do. So they bring up fallen officers. But the men who shot the officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge were killed immediately as cop killers often are. Finding a cop killer not dead or convicted is even rarer than finding a killer cop arrested at all. Again, people aren’t just protesting police murder, they are protesting “getting away with” murder — the ultimate expression on the non-value of Black life in America. And while a political convention or presidential race panel won’t dare explain this super-simplistic point, Colin Kaepernick can.
So instead, they change the subject once more to imaginary military slights he never stated. Last night, Kaepernick clarified that too: “I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country." And then, Kaepernick explained the tragic hypocrisy: “This country isn’t holding up their end of the bargain… men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated unjustly, and have been murdered by the country they fought for, on our land. That’s not right.” No. That’s not right. It’s criminal. Walter Scott, killed by officer Matthew Slager on video, was a US Veteran. So was India Kager, Kenneth Chamberlain and others. Scott was not only shot while running away, but the original police report was falsified so Slager could “get away with murder." Slager, who is still awaiting trial, wasn’t just a “bad apple,” he was part of a police cover-up. Slager never honored Scott’s past military service. He murdered him. A flag does not inherently represent soldiers. That is a lifetime of political brainwashing talking. Claiming Kaepernick’s act as an insult to soldiers is as logically twisted as claiming standing up for the flag honors Micah Johnson and Gavin Long — the two military veterans who killed police in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Neither statement makes any damn sense. And yet some people are actually more offended with Kaepernick protesting police getting away with murder than those “getting away with murder” itself? Now THAT is offensive. Why? Because what they're really saying is "White Feelings >Black Lives" And this is what Kaepernick is really trying to tell us (and by us, I really mean white people). While most subject-changing Kaeper-critics avoided his message for accountability, here is one rare exception from a sportswriter who callsKaepernick a “f--king idiot”: “First, who is getting away with murder? That's a strong accusation. Who in particular has committed murder in this country and not been charged with it? If you're going to make this statement then you need to give us particulars that motivate your decision and your beliefs. I don't want bland generalities, I want specifics here.” There is a lot of denial, privilege and entitlement to unpack here. First, Colin Kaepernick owes you absolutely nothing. He is not responsible for your education — which is only a mere web-click away. There is practically a cop-killing web video library that has emerged in the last two years, and scores of other reports and data. Research them.
Second, after Alton Sterling was killed on a video last month, Kaepernick was actually very specific. These were his remarks in an Instagram post: “This is what lynchings look like in 2016! Another murder in the streets because the color of a man's skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us. When will they be held accountable? or did he fear for his life as he executed this man?” There is video from three different angles of Sterling being shot while restrained on the ground, yet the officer has still not even been arrested. If those videos are not enough, if you want to “wait for all the facts” over your own eyeballs, then there is nothing to discuss. If we also need Kaepernick to hold our hands through videos of Sterling, Natasha McKenna or Eric Garner, then there is nothing to discuss. Hell, if the prerequisite for convicting a killer cop is a video, then that’s merely a license to murder without one. And if you believe Walter Scott was murdered (a point David Duke would surely concede), but still would have believed the conspiratorial lies on the original police report, your concession is useless, not justice. No more subject-changing. Let’s break down Kaepernick's comments on Sterling, line by line: “What lynching looks like in 2016!” Lynching was not just characterized by rope, but by the ability to avoid conviction in a court of law. Sunday was the 61st anniversary of Emmett Till’s historic murder. The 14-year-old Till is not only relevant because of his brutal murder, but also because a jury acquitted his murderers the next month. “Another murder in the streets because the color of a man's skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us.” Kaepernick specifically points out the higher standard police get sworn into as public servants. While many whites are also tragic victims of police violence at lower rates, there is a pattern of police behavior that values white life and takes risks to save white life — even when white people are actually pointing gunsdirectly at police. “When will they be held accountable? or did he fear for his life as he executed this man?” Again, Kaepernick specifically used the word “accountable” with Alton Sterling — a deliberate word he spoke again multiple times last night. He is also questioning the absurd “fear for life” law that allows either the murderous or racially irrational “fears” of (often) white officers as a legal loophole. Ex-Seattle Police Comissioner Norm Stamper agrees. Chapter 5 of his book "Breaking Rank" is titled: “Why White Cops Kill Black Men." Stamper writes: “White cops are afraid of black men… We say that officers treat black men the same way they treat white men. But that’s a lie. In fact, the bigger, the darker the black man the greater the fear." Did the cop who executed Alton Sterling do so out of intentional murder or from a deep affliction of hyper-irrational racial fear ignited by a simple twitch? It is doubtful that Sterling’s heartbroken son cares. Front page of the New York Daily News for Aug. 28, 2016.
And neither should we. The officer must be held accountable. Or in Colin’s words, we must stop him from “getting away with murder." And in this era of increased incarceration and state violence against of Black women, that also goes for Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Aiyana Jones, etc. Kaepernick is not saying anything new. The numbers are absolutely staggering. The Daily News' own Shaun King writes: “When the officers who killed Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Mike Brown, or Natasha McKenna never even go to trial for what they did, seeing an officer indicted and charged with manslaughter or murder feels a little like fitting a camel through the eye of a needle. Of the 1,200 people killed by American police in 2015, only seven cases resulted in charges — a ridiculously tiny number... Not one single police officer was convicted for an on-duty death in 2015.” This is what an epidemic of “zero-accountability” looks like. Do we need Kaepernick to crunch these numbers for us too? So far, the only numbers Kaeper-critics seem to care about is his salary. This was best symbolized in tweets like this from CBS sports journalist Doug Gottlieb: “$61m guaranteed... Very oppressed #ColinKaepernick” Gottlieb failed to state just how many millions an athlete must make to stop police from personally assaulting them (see: James Blake or Thabo Sefolosha) or to stop cops all around the country from “getting away with murder." Of course, Kaepernick was referencing all “people of color." Last night he kindly elaborated that he was speaking for people that “don’t have a voice” and platform to “affect change." Said Kaepernick: “I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed." Critics, take note: stand WITH. Not sure if Colin can be any clearer. But valuing Black lives has never really been about reading comprehension, and Colin knows this. Which is why he is standing up by sitting down. If you don’t like the messenger, then take it from a more respectable sports icon and military veteran Jackie Robinson who wrote in his autobiography shortly before his death (h/t @profloumoore & @edgeofsports): “I cannot stand and sing the anthem, I cannot salute the flag. I know I am a black man in a white world in 1972 and 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.” As long as we keep changing the subject from “getting away with murder,” Colin Kaepernick, and the oppressed people he stands with in 2016, do not have it made.
Never forget what? That you originated from Africa?
Hippy I'll keep it real as I'm not racist... Note to BLM movement -
Lazy angry blacks that bitch and moan and blame all of their troubles on the white man should be shipped back to west Africa just for a year.. Then you all would know what real poverty, hardship, and lack of Government help and police protection is all about..
After a year all those Black haters would finally realize and really appreciate the freedoms, government hand outs, and police PROTECTION they all take for granted here in the States..
Never forget what? That you originated from Africa?
Hippy I'll keep it real as I'm not racist...
Lazy angry blacks that bitch and moan and blame all of their troubles on the white man should be shipped back to west Africa just for a year.. Then you all would know what real poverty, hardship, and lack of Government help and police protection is all about..
After a year the Blacks haters would finally realize and really appreciate the freedoms, government hand outs, and police PROTECTION they all take for granted here in the States..
Kap is finished. He possibly has HIV. His body cannot sustain any weight at all. He is a physical piece of crap. Most teams do not want him for that reason alone. Even if he is not infected with the HIV virus, his body is not worth a crap. He is also afraid to get hit. He showed this constantly last season. The bottom line is this. He is nothing but a half breed who has lost everything and is now doing what many blacks do. Bitch and moan and look for an excuse for his shi**y performance as a QB. He also fails to understand that Black Lives DO NOT matter. They do not matter to most whites. They certainly do not matter to most Hispanics. And they obviously do not matter to blacks. Black males kill more black males than everything else added up. Kap, here is a clue. No one gives a crap about you or your false cause. You and your people DO NOT matter to me. Just look how much good your half breed brother in the White House did for your people.
After having given thousands of IQ tests to all races, I can tell you this cat makes Jameis look like Einstein. Its hard to abstract think when your IQ is barely above room temp
This is an obvious attempt by Kaepernick to garner media attention which has dwindled from him and not suprisingly them media has obliged him which makes perfect sense when you understand the agenda that those behind mainstream media are furthering.
If you're more upset about this than you are about systematic racism then you are part of the problem
A majority WHITE country elects a black president and you call it systematic racism We have black and hispanic supreme court justices and you call it systematic racism The head of the department of Justice is a black female and you call it systematic racism we have black and hispanic senators and congressman and you call it systematic racism we have black CEO's and you call it systematic racism we have black fire chief's, police chief's, lawyers, doctor's, generals in the Military and you call it systematic racism Black hippy, just because you couldn't make a success out of yourself doesn't mean it was racism. Most people who cry racism are the real racist failures in society.
This country has problems, but The country isn't oppressing black people. There is an under service of the black community...but that's a different topic. The flag symbolizes all those have died to give us what we have. Should respect it.
Someone needs to do something stupid to get the medias attention...this should be a non story.
also funny how Kap says Hillary is a piece of shit and should be in jail and the media COMPLETELY IGNORES IT
Colin Kaepernick’s deliberate act of protest to sit out the national anthem caught the nation’s attention, and this initial sentence framed most media headlines: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color.” But the meat of Kaepernick’s cause actually came two sentences later: “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” Hold it right there: “Getting away with murder." That is the story. There is no need to interpret why Kaepernick is not standing for the anthem — he has told us. In taking a baton handoff from Carmelo Anthony and the incredibly underrated WNBA protests, Kaepernick has used the most specific language on police accountability of any recent athlete. Kaepernick is recentering police accountability with crystal clarity. “Accountability” is not the “murder” part, it’s the “getting away with” part. Why is the word “accountability” so hard for Kaeper-critics to understand? Because criticizing Kaepernick is dependent on not understanding it. They can’t criticize lack of police accountability, so they change the subject. So they bring up crime. But civilians go to prison in droves while police who murder almost never do. So they bring up fallen officers. But the men who shot the officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge were killed immediately as cop killers often are. Finding a cop killer not dead or convicted is even rarer than finding a killer cop arrested at all. Again, people aren’t just protesting police murder, they are protesting “getting away with” murder — the ultimate expression on the non-value of Black life in America. And while a political convention or presidential race panel won’t dare explain this super-simplistic point, Colin Kaepernick can.
So instead, they change the subject once more to imaginary military slights he never stated. Last night, Kaepernick clarified that too: “I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country." And then, Kaepernick explained the tragic hypocrisy: “This country isn’t holding up their end of the bargain… men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated unjustly, and have been murdered by the country they fought for, on our land. That’s not right.” No. That’s not right. It’s criminal. Walter Scott, killed by officer Matthew Slager on video, was a US Veteran. So was India Kager, Kenneth Chamberlain and others. Scott was not only shot while running away, but the original police report was falsified so Slager could “get away with murder." Slager, who is still awaiting trial, wasn’t just a “bad apple,” he was part of a police cover-up. Slager never honored Scott’s past military service. He murdered him. A flag does not inherently represent soldiers. That is a lifetime of political brainwashing talking. Claiming Kaepernick’s act as an insult to soldiers is as logically twisted as claiming standing up for the flag honors Micah Johnson and Gavin Long — the two military veterans who killed police in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Neither statement makes any damn sense. And yet some people are actually more offended with Kaepernick protesting police getting away with murder than those “getting away with murder” itself? Now THAT is offensive. Why? Because what they're really saying is "White Feelings >Black Lives" And this is what Kaepernick is really trying to tell us (and by us, I really mean white people). While most subject-changing Kaeper-critics avoided his message for accountability, here is one rare exception from a sportswriter who callsKaepernick a “f--king idiot”: “First, who is getting away with murder? That's a strong accusation. Who in particular has committed murder in this country and not been charged with it? If you're going to make this statement then you need to give us particulars that motivate your decision and your beliefs. I don't want bland generalities, I want specifics here.” There is a lot of denial, privilege and entitlement to unpack here. First, Colin Kaepernick owes you absolutely nothing. He is not responsible for your education — which is only a mere web-click away. There is practically a cop-killing web video library that has emerged in the last two years, and scores of other reports and data. Research them.
Second, after Alton Sterling was killed on a video last month, Kaepernick was actually very specific. These were his remarks in an Instagram post: “This is what lynchings look like in 2016! Another murder in the streets because the color of a man's skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us. When will they be held accountable? or did he fear for his life as he executed this man?” There is video from three different angles of Sterling being shot while restrained on the ground, yet the officer has still not even been arrested. If those videos are not enough, if you want to “wait for all the facts” over your own eyeballs, then there is nothing to discuss. If we also need Kaepernick to hold our hands through videos of Sterling, Natasha McKenna or Eric Garner, then there is nothing to discuss. Hell, if the prerequisite for convicting a killer cop is a video, then that’s merely a license to murder without one. And if you believe Walter Scott was murdered (a point David Duke would surely concede), but still would have believed the conspiratorial lies on the original police report, your concession is useless, not justice. No more subject-changing. Let’s break down Kaepernick's comments on Sterling, line by line: “What lynching looks like in 2016!” Lynching was not just characterized by rope, but by the ability to avoid conviction in a court of law. Sunday was the 61st anniversary of Emmett Till’s historic murder. The 14-year-old Till is not only relevant because of his brutal murder, but also because a jury acquitted his murderers the next month. “Another murder in the streets because the color of a man's skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us.” Kaepernick specifically points out the higher standard police get sworn into as public servants. While many whites are also tragic victims of police violence at lower rates, there is a pattern of police behavior that values white life and takes risks to save white life — even when white people are actually pointing gunsdirectly at police. “When will they be held accountable? or did he fear for his life as he executed this man?” Again, Kaepernick specifically used the word “accountable” with Alton Sterling — a deliberate word he spoke again multiple times last night. He is also questioning the absurd “fear for life” law that allows either the murderous or racially irrational “fears” of (often) white officers as a legal loophole. Ex-Seattle Police Comissioner Norm Stamper agrees. Chapter 5 of his book "Breaking Rank" is titled: “Why White Cops Kill Black Men." Stamper writes: “White cops are afraid of black men… We say that officers treat black men the same way they treat white men. But that’s a lie. In fact, the bigger, the darker the black man the greater the fear." Did the cop who executed Alton Sterling do so out of intentional murder or from a deep affliction of hyper-irrational racial fear ignited by a simple twitch? It is doubtful that Sterling’s heartbroken son cares. Front page of the New York Daily News for Aug. 28, 2016.
And neither should we. The officer must be held accountable. Or in Colin’s words, we must stop him from “getting away with murder." And in this era of increased incarceration and state violence against of Black women, that also goes for Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Aiyana Jones, etc. Kaepernick is not saying anything new. The numbers are absolutely staggering. The Daily News' own Shaun King writes: “When the officers who killed Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Mike Brown, or Natasha McKenna never even go to trial for what they did, seeing an officer indicted and charged with manslaughter or murder feels a little like fitting a camel through the eye of a needle. Of the 1,200 people killed by American police in 2015, only seven cases resulted in charges — a ridiculously tiny number... Not one single police officer was convicted for an on-duty death in 2015.” This is what an epidemic of “zero-accountability” looks like. Do we need Kaepernick to crunch these numbers for us too? So far, the only numbers Kaeper-critics seem to care about is his salary. This was best symbolized in tweets like this from CBS sports journalist Doug Gottlieb: “$61m guaranteed... Very oppressed #ColinKaepernick” Gottlieb failed to state just how many millions an athlete must make to stop police from personally assaulting them (see: James Blake or Thabo Sefolosha) or to stop cops all around the country from “getting away with murder." Of course, Kaepernick was referencing all “people of color." Last night he kindly elaborated that he was speaking for people that “don’t have a voice” and platform to “affect change." Said Kaepernick: “I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed." Critics, take note: stand WITH. Not sure if Colin can be any clearer. But valuing Black lives has never really been about reading comprehension, and Colin knows this. Which is why he is standing up by sitting down. If you don’t like the messenger, then take it from a more respectable sports icon and military veteran Jackie Robinson who wrote in his autobiography shortly before his death (h/t @profloumoore & @edgeofsports): “I cannot stand and sing the anthem, I cannot salute the flag. I know I am a black man in a white world in 1972 and 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.” As long as we keep changing the subject from “getting away with murder,” Colin Kaepernick, and the oppressed people he stands with in 2016, do not have it made.
Kap is finished. He possibly has HIV. His body cannot sustain any weight at all. He is a physical piece of crap. Most teams do not want him for that reason alone. Even if he is not infected with the HIV virus, his body is not worth a crap. He is also afraid to get hit. He showed this constantly last season. The bottom line is this. He is nothing but a half breed who has lost everything and is now doing what many blacks do. Bitch and moan and look for an excuse for his shi**y performance as a QB. He also fails to understand that Black Lives DO NOT matter. They do not matter to most whites. They certainly do not matter to most Hispanics. And they obviously do not matter to blacks. Black males kill more black males than everything else added up. Kap, here is a clue. No one gives a crap about you or your false cause. You and your people DO NOT matter to me. Just look how much good your half breed brother in the White House did for your people.
A majority WHITE country elects a black president and you call it systematic racism We have black and hispanic supreme court justices and you call it systematic racism The head of the department of Justice is a black female and you call it systematic racism we have black and hispanic senators and congressman and you call it systematic racism we have black CEO's and you call it systematic racism we have black fire chief's, police chief's, lawyers, doctor's, generals in the Military and you call it systematic racism Black hippy, just because you couldn't make a success out of yourself doesn't mean it was racism. Most people who cry racism are the real racist failures in society.
And yet some people are actually more offended with Kaepernick protesting police getting away with murder than those “getting away with murder” itself? Now THAT is offensive
Blacks are so fukkin dumb they keep electing Dems and make their lives worse
They'd rather continue to get GR/welfare checks from the Government and Section 8 free housing rather then look for real work and get a job.. I know this for fact.. Have another baby instead and the monthly check amounts get larger.. It's a good gig I can't lie.. Of course blacks will continue to vote for the Democratic Presidents because it's a free ride.. Tax the rich more and give to the poor but in reality that just cripples the poor and makes the ghetto's become more worthless.
No real change will ever happen in the hoods and ghettos of America when no one wants to work anymore sadly enough..Young ghetto blacks don't know what real work is anymore IMO.. I've tried to hire 100 or so young blacks or so in my life time and I know these things.. Just lazy and really didn't want to work.. I'd rather hire Mexicans to be honest for construction and labor jobs if I ever went back to owning a business again......
From the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner, its among the three verses that aren't sung,
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"
I hope I don't need to translate that, I believe its pretty straight forward. If any black person doesn't want to stand during the SSB, you can't blame them. The person that wrote the song owned slaves and was against abolishing slavery. The song was made our national anthem by President Woodrow Wilson. The same president who screened the racist movie The Birth of A Nation inside the White House.
From the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner, its among the three verses that aren't sung,
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"
I hope I don't need to translate that, I believe its pretty straight forward. If any black person doesn't want to stand during the SSB, you can't blame them. The person that wrote the song owned slaves and was against abolishing slavery. The song was made our national anthem by President Woodrow Wilson. The same president who screened the racist movie The Birth of A Nation inside the White House.
From the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner, its among the three verses that aren't sung,
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"
I hope I don't need to translate that, I believe its pretty straight forward. If any black person doesn't want to stand during the SSB, you can't blame them. The person that wrote the song owned slaves and was against abolishing slavery. The song was made our national anthem by President Woodrow Wilson. The same president who screened the racist movie The Birth of A Nation inside the White House.
Unfortunately this missing 3rd verse isn't Kapaernick's reason as to why he didn't stand. If he did, then minds would have been blown.
From the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner, its among the three verses that aren't sung,
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"
I hope I don't need to translate that, I believe its pretty straight forward. If any black person doesn't want to stand during the SSB, you can't blame them. The person that wrote the song owned slaves and was against abolishing slavery. The song was made our national anthem by President Woodrow Wilson. The same president who screened the racist movie The Birth of A Nation inside the White House.
That has nothing to do with honoring your Country and showing respect at the start of the NFL football game. He wasn't sitting out because of that verse either..
Crapernick should be happy to be a millionaire and have a job... If he cares about the blacks for real then he should help and hire them like Magic Johnson does, it starts there.... Lead by real example and not by sitting out on our NA and looking like a jack ass to get attention..
He will get cut, those owners aren't gonna stand for that kind of behavior on the field...
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We have black and hispanic supreme court justices and you call it systematic racism
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