Kaepernick, activism and politics. The NFL doesn't know how to stop this row

UK Guardian ^ | August 23, 2017 | Les Carpenter

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Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers,...

August 30, 2016
FoxNews.com

“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.

Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.

But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]

During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers,...

August 30, 2016
FoxNews.com

“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.

Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.

But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]

During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

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[rlmorel]

Thanks for the comment-I must admit, I always thought RGIII had more pure passing ability than Kapernick, but thought once he got injured, was unable to get his mechanics right and became more erratic and inaccurate. (It was his knee, IIRC)

Either way, you cannot last in the NFL as a running quarterback, Fran Tarkenton, Bobby Douglass, et al not withstanding. College, yes. Pros...no.

[Drew68]

BECAUSE HE'S CRAPPY QB................................

Yep. If he were a great player, the NFL wouldn't give a crap about his behavior.

[notdownwidems]

It’s time for the union to stop trying to balance players’ egos and players’ salary and start focusing on the best financial outcome for it’s members. It shouldn’t be a hard sell if coming from the union: “The NFL has given you fame and money that allow you to create your own platform for change. But doing that during “entertainment” events on the owner’s platform is not appropriate or smart business for your personal income future. A few people kneeling hurts all owners and thus will hurt income for all players. So entertain on football Sundays and work on your social change platform on other days”

VERY well said, LostPassword!

[Mad Dawgg]

I've been a Browns fan since Jim Brown was playing, I've been a season ticket holder since Bernie Kosar was playing. I will still be a season ticket holder See if they want to protest then it is fine with me.

I will still buy my season ticket packet each year but with one thing in mind that I still make a profit, we haven't been to the game in several year so we sell the tickets on the NFL ticket exchange and make a couple thousand bucks profit (we have 4th row seats in the Dawg Pound)

Evey couple of year smy wife gets me one of those new expensive jerseys and coats etc. that all stops. I won't watch them I won't buy their over priced merchandise and I won't pay to see them in a ny form. I will buy those tickets though.

See if the millionaire hypocrites can kneel and disrespect our flag while making money, then I can respect the flag by taking their tickets and making money and selling them to out of town fans of the other teams.

But they get not another dime from me for anything else. And I am spreading the word far and wide. I dropped baseball when the millionaires went on strike for more money I have dropped football for something far more important.

See Mr. Football Commissioner Goodell, NFL for me now stands for No F***ing Longer will I participate in your anti-American bullshit. But I will be glad to make a few bucks off of it while I work to undermine your business model. I mean really this sport is too dangerous all those concussions right? Maybe congress needs to make a law!

[rlmorel]

I heard Kordell Stewart (QB, Pittsburgh Steelers 1995-2002) on a podcast where he said one of his main gripes with non-guaranteed contracts in the NFL is that players cannot take part in social justice protests and such because their contracts are not guaranteed and they could be cut loose because of it. I had three thoughts when I heard it:

1.) I didn't really have any negative feelings about him before I heard that. But I do now.

2.) That was one of the dumbest and stupidest things I have ever heard from a professional sports announcer.

3.) He says they don't have guaranteed contracts as if it is a bad thing.

[60Gunner]

Totally agree. No team in any sport is worth my time and money if they allow their players to get away with this nonsense or - in the case of the Browns, encourage it. And in Seattle, even the fans are getting in on the act. That figures.

Next thing ya know, an Antifa hooligan will be hoisting the 12th Man flag.

[QualityMan]

yep.

as they say...the best defense is a good offense.

that said....as ye sow, so shall ye reap...

let em burn...

I will continue my 7 year streak of ignoring football on sundays.

[snoringbear]

“There is no reason to play the National Anthem at these games. If you don’t play it, you take away their protest platform. Think about that.”

Football as we know it is in a death spiral anyway. It will die from the bottom up. Many parents are no longer allowing their sons to play in the peewee and rec leagues and this will work its way up through middle schools, high schools and colleges. So, the talent pool will dry up. Then, there’s lawsuits, will get ever more frequent and bigger. Sponsors will soon no longer wish to be associated with football. There will eventually be rule changes, maybe even legislation, that will radically change the game. Fans, attendees, viewers will dry up. Gone baby gone....

[Herodes]

There is no reason to play the National Anthem at these games. If you don’t play it, you take away their protest platform. Think about that.

Wow...what a great idea. Let’s all just bend over.

[Da Coyote]

K is unsigned because he is a asswipe.

[dfwgator]

There is no reason to play the National Anthem at these games. If you don’t play it, you take away their protest platform. Think about that.

That's EXACTLY what they want. And they ultimately want to change the National Anthem to something more PC.

[dfwgator]

It will be interesting to see who the NFL will get to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.

There is going to be a lot of pressure on black singers to decline the invitation.

[MrEdd]

I feel disgusted by any person who is so enamoured with a diversionary passtime that they would remain engaged in it when disgusting filth like this becomes part of it.

[Defiant]

Randall Cunningham, Michael Vick, Roger Staubach, Aaron Rodgers. I think you can be a scrambler and have a long career, so long as your first instinct is to step up in the pocket. But you can’t last if they make you one of the running backs, and that’s what read option does.

[morphing libertarian]

Tarkenton

[dancusa]

If the SJW’s wants Colin Kaepernick to play and start, they should buy their own franchise. Spike Lee throw in your riches with your fellow SJW investors and build a team. Put your money where your mouth is. Follow your SJW guidelines and lose every game 72 to 0. I’m sure every player wants to make nothing but be “Down with the Cause”.

Spike can get his front row seats too.

[FredZarguna]

The difference is between running because you can't do your basic quarterbacking, or running in order to extend the play. Fran Tarkenton, Terry Bradshaw, and other NFL greats known for "scrambling" were typically trying to find an open receiver when protection broke down.

As the very good breakdown above says, Rectum Kaepernick was fine until DC's realized he was not running to extend the play, but was running simply because did not know where to go when his primary receiver was covered.

Once a DC figures that out, you no longer have to cover the downfield receivers plus the quarterback -- which leaves you with a one man disadvantage. You figure out who the primary is (which Kaepernick telegraphs by a mile) and you cover him. The entire rest of your defense is then available to concentrate on containing the QB and any easily found outlets.

Kaepernick is not playing because he is a liability in every conceivable way. That's all there is to it.

[TTFlyer]

I think you can be a scrambler and have a long career, so long as your first instinct is to step up in the pocket. But you can’t last if they make you one of the running backs, and that’s what read option does.

Correct. The Carolina Panthers are attempting to make a pocket-passer out of their read-option QB, the world's largest 10 year-old, Cam Newton.

Good luck with that, Carolina.