Posted on 09/05/2016 4:57:58 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Remind players in no uncertain terms that our freedom to speak and demonstrate comes with responsibilities too
Thank you Colin Kaepernick, we’re all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. I don’t know what your problem is, but I bet it’s very hard to pronounce. Like the few combat veterans, including my fellow Green Beret vet Nate Boyer, who stood by Colin at the pre-season game Thursday evening, I did indeed risk my life for people’s right to express their opinions freely and stand up for what they believe in. However, I respectfully disagree with each of them who are standing by Kaepernick and justifying his stand based solely on freedom of speech. Freedom Is not free. It was paid for with the blood of patriots. Scoring a touchdown does not make you a hero. Getting shot and killed in the cause of freedom does. That includes blood spilled by cops and soldiers alike.
There are a number of factors at play in this that have not been mentioned. Colin Kaepernick has a fiduciary responsibility to the fans of the San Francisco 49ers who spend hundreds of dollars just to attend games. He also owes that fiscal loyalty to the corporation he works for, the 49ers. If Colin Kaepernick was an athlete in the manner of Serena Williams, it would be different. Serena competes in tennis tournaments as a major superstar athlete, and frankly is a whole lot more fun to watch than Colin. If she wants to make a statement about law enforcement professionals or racism in America, she only hurts herself in the pocketbook.
Coward is the word I use. If he were a man he would pay back his bonus,quit , and go be whatever SJW he wanted to be
The sooner they cut him, the better.
If his employer is too cowardly to rein him in, then he can do whatever he wants. That’s pretty much how it works.
Fundamentally, though, a league like the NFL is almost 75% black. 90 to 95% of blacks support Democrats. So I’d actually expect more of this sort of thing in the future, just based on demographics.
It’s all about TV ratings. Will ratings be up or down due to this? That is the only question that will concern them.
Freegards
I'm sure the 49'ers will forgo this windfall.
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