Posted on 08/27/2016 9:54:56 AM PDT by Baladas
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick says he refused to stand during the national anthem Friday due to his views on the country's treatment of racial minorities.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media after Friday's game. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
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"The national anthem is and always will be a special part of the pregame ceremony,"
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Bet he cashes his pay check and takes that payment in American dollars. If he were anything but a hypocrite he would emigrate.
>>Dick Enberg, live from the Olympic Auditorium in Downtown Los Angeles....<<
Don’t you mean “Mean Gene” Okerlund?
Another athletic a-hole....what are they feeding those guys? (They seemingly, are determined to foist their social and political views on the rest of us!) I say fine the big dope for acting out.
TRADE.HIM.NOW to the PyongYang pro football team.
That’s income inequality...
“Say goodbye you moron, hope you enjoy flipping burgers at McDonalds.”
He’s worth enough to buy a Mc’D’s franchise and employ burger flippers.
Time to make his name change official, COLON Crapernick.
He looks Middle Eastern. Certainly not sub Saharan African. Very Semitic looing.
Bears offense first half against the Chief (starters playing), 2 first downs, 20 yards, 8 minutes of possession, 0 points, 1 bruised Cutlet.
Good thing I forgot it was on so I didn’t watch.
“Don’t you mean “Mean Gene” Okerlund?”
Never really got into wrestling that much, though I do remember “Killer” Kowalski and his famous CLAW Hold. My stomach still hurts from getting them (used to even get them in the pile in freshman football games) almost everywhere from the guys in school. OK. Gave a few too.
I was talking about Boxing. Enberg was the announcer for most of the 60’s at the Olympic.
Effing jerk likes the country enough while its paying him millions to play a game. Yeah, he’s real “oppressed”. So sick of these creeps with God given talent running down the only country in the world with any modicum of Liberty.
Must be the pink he’s forced to wear making him sound and act like a little bitch.
Unfortunately th 9ers gave this ungrateful POS a fat contract with too much guaranteed.
What a piece of crap!
Yikes, he coined it? My bad. By the time he'd been home for a couple of decades, ol' Hack was talking about himself with that phrase.
He’ll be a hero in ultra-left San Francisco.
I heard the expression as “perfumed prince.”
I forget who said it. Rumsfeld? Priceless either
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The late Col. David Hackworth used that expression about Gen. Wesley Clark during the Bosnia campaign.
He’s garbage. I knew he was a punk, but he slid further down the totem pole.
He’s welcome to go play in Zimbabwe.
Ungrateful bastard.
Thank you!
Yes...I was talking about when the Cardinals played the 49’ers....
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