Posted on 10/31/2021 3:04:27 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former NFL quarterback and original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick compared the NFL Combine process to a slave auction in Netflix documentary series chronicling his life experiences.
In the series Colin In Black & White, which Kaepernick narrates, he appears in a scene where he talks about NFL prospects being “poked, prodded, and examined” for defects before the NFL Draft. The players at the “combine” then leave the NFL field and enter a mid-1800’s slave auction where white landowners examine slaves for purchase.
In the scene, Kaepernick says this is how “they” establish a “power dynamic.” The scene closes with the NFL coach and slave auctioneer shaking hands against the backdrop of bonded slaves.
NFL prospects are not whipped or beaten into submission. And, not to mention, those players being “examined” will be compensated with the kind of wealth that most people can scarcely even conceive of, while the grand prize for a slave at auction in the mid-1800s was a lifetime of penniless servitude and torture.
Colin Kaepernick exercised his freedom – freedom no slave ever had – to walk away from a multimillion-dollar contract in San Francisco after spending the 2016 season protesting America and smearing the police. But, then, because we live in a truly sick society, the anti-capitalist Kaepernick was then able to parlay that foolery and the kind of mind-numbingly insulting and foolish “reason” he exhibited in the above clip into a $20 million financial empire built almost entirely on corporate sponsorships after leaving the NFL.
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I had to bend over and “spread ‘em” at MEPS for USAF entrance.
I did not get millions of dollars...
Good. The more he talks nonsense, the greater the backlash against the BLM Marxists.
Tend to agree. Keyword here is “like”. It would be much more closely aligned if the slaves of old trained for 10 or more years for the chance at voluntarily getting on a luxury cruise liner to go “try out for” a chance to pick cotton for the equivalent of 40 million a year, where they would work about 6 months out of the year, stay in nice hotels, fly around in private jets and if they were not chosen or tired of the work could just as easily go back right to where they had begun.
So in that sense - not all that alike after all.
But would you condemn your children to follow you in that slavery like Archie Manning did? < /S>
Yeah, well, if you figure that all productive employment, regardless of the small or INSANELY large level of compensation, is slavery.
Yeah.
Right.
Yep. The combines are almost as unfair as college entrance exams and math. Excuses for and by idiots.
What’s Netflix?
LOL! Dumbass Colon could always buy a team and “whip” his picks into shape how he sees fit.
Of course, better to whine like a little bitch from the outside.
He got fed and clothed pretty good during his enslavement.
And yet he claims the NFL is racist for not letting him back onto the plantation.
What can you say. Brady is amazing.
Where I goest, so say they goest...Even with more money!!!LOL
Colin, what was the minimum salary for 1880’s slave draft?
In the NFL the minumum is $660,000 a year now. About double the average doctor or lawyer.
Cancelled my subscription.
If making eight figures for working three hours a week for four months of the year playing a kid’s game is slavery, then I would like a piece of the action.
That ain’t saying much. I guess slaves at market could have just opted out. Take a knee, as it were.
The broken clock and blind squirrel comes to mind here. Fair modern comparison to the old practice. Still, it doesnt make the modern version wrong. Sure you could do it all online but buyers/renters deserve to see the property in person before the deal is done.
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