Posted on 09/11/2018 8:41:13 AM PDT by topher
It is quite possible that Colin Kaepernick was kneeling during the National Anthem the first time because his life as an NFL football player was such a MESS. He may have been kneeling at that game since he was thinking about how MISERABLE HIS PERFORMANCE WAS AT QB AND HE MIGHT BE FIRED AT THE END OF THE 2016 SEASON (which he was)!!!
In 2015, his QB rating was 78+, which is terrible for an NFL QB. In 2016, it was slightly higher, but he was hurting the SF 49'ers, not helping them.
So the word LOSER should be equated with Colin Kaepernick. He is now a very rich loser, but a loser.
He has not helped the African-American community (black community). He should be arranging for these communities to address:
1. Address the deaths in the African American communites by violence of black versus black person.2. He should be addressing the problem with single family homes in the African American or black communities. Many of these communities have families with no adult male role models. Why? They are either dead, in prison, or have gone to other women to sow their seeds.
Who is William Harvey Carney? He is a former slave that fought in the first colored regiment during the Civil War.
He was wounded multiple times but did not allow the American flag to drop!
His actions are depicted in the Hollywood movie Glory starring Denzel Washington.
He was the first African American (black) to win the Medal of Honor.
The LOSER Colin Kaepernick drags the legacy of William Harvey Carney through the mud. LOSER Colin Kaepernick also drags the American flag through the mud -- which many Americans have fought and sacrificed for, or fought and died for. The movie Glory is Hollywood fiction but based on fact.
Maybe if we are going to help Make America Great Again we must promote the LEGACY of William Harvey Carney (as well as other Medal of Honor winners), and make sure that Colin Kaepernick is known for what he truly is: a loser...
It is interesting to note that William Harvey Carney thought of becoming a minister -- just Alvin York had deep religious convictions.
The Aborigines of Australia are black. So to distinguish from these people and the native people of Africa who now live in the United States, the term African American should be used...
It would be better if everybody just ignored the kneelers. It is the free publicity they are after and the presence of TV camera makes them do it more. Just like thee rioters looting stores.
Kap was actually trying to cause enough trouble to get himself cut from the team and paid out for his contract early. He was a terrible QB.
Which girlfriend, the transgender or the Muslim?
I consider him a LOSER. Period. Not a role model.
I spent many years researching the 54th and 55th Mass. Regiments. From a collection of letters I found at Cornell University, I was able to track down Smith's descendants. My first contact was with his grandson Andy who lives in Indiana. It was through Andy that I learned that Smith's two daughters, Geneva Susan Smith (Andy's mother), and Caruth Smith, were still alive. This was in the early 90's. I met up with Andy and his family, along with his Aunt Caruth in Washington, D.C., and we kept in touch for several years. Both daughters have passed, but I'll never forget how exciting it was to speak to, and meet the daughters of an American Civil War Soldier.
The photo of Sergeant Smith on the wikipedia is the photo I discovered in the collection of the regimental doctor's papers at Cornell. After the war, Burt Greene Wilder taught at Cornell, and left his papers, and his brain to the school. There was also a photo of a little girl amongst the papers. It turned out to be Andy's mother Geneva as a young girl. Since her father could not read or write, Smith would dictate the letters to Dr. Wilder, and she would write them for him.
Ad campaigns are short lived. And athletes in ad campaigns don’t last forever. It’s been a day or two since OJ hurdled through airports for Hertz.
Nike uses ideas and people for a bit, then they move on. This will end.
I worked with Fred Zabitosky until cancer took his life on Ft Bragg everyday for two years - again had someone not mentioned it me I'd never know.
I worked for a Army Col Gillem in the 80's; whose father won the MOH in WWII (Ft Gillem Ga named after him),and his family had severed with General Officers every generation since the Civil War - he felt he didn't measure up but his brother carried on the General Officer tradition (USAF Academy) and a BG. His family served the military from the beginning of the Country - he was a rather distinguished man, good nature, solid military!
I remember when I got the 82d Abn Div IG office as the NCOIC, and read the reports from the mid 70s about the rumors I'd heard about the MoH winner who prepared for the old "red pen" IG Inspections by leaving muddy boots under his bunk and his open MoH Award on his pillow! The Army takes care of their own.
The thing about the MoH is HUMBLING and these guys to man loved their fellow soldiers and Country. Pat Brady was doing Save the Flag in mid-90's pushing back against the Dem's back then touring the US.
NFL disrespects every American.
Mike Rowe Wades in to Nike-Kaepernick Controversy in BIG WAY
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3686697/posts
Thank you for sharing, I love hearing unknown & little known stories of America, our country & our people. I love the photo of Sergeant Smith, such a handsome young man.
There's also a photo of Alfred Stedman Hartwell (from Harvard College), who became the Colonel of the 55th Mass., and was wounded at the Battle of Honey Hill, S.C., the battle in which Sgt. Smith saved the regimental flags. I was also fortunate to be able to track his descendants down, and shared my research about their great-grandfather with them. Hartwell ended up in Hawaii after the war, and according to family history, besides being an attorney, newspaper publisher, etc., he also formed a consortium to get Pearl Harbor dredged for use by The U.S. Navy.
Wikipedia link on Hartwell:
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