Posted on 11/24/2016 10:07:03 AM PST by simpson96
With the 49ers visiting the Dolphins this week, San Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick engaged in a conference call with members of the South Florida media. However, one reporter wanted to discuss something that happened in August, when Kaepernick wore a shirt that appeared to show support for Fidel Castro, which led to a tense exchange. (snip)
According to the Palm Beach Post, a Miami Herald reporter began pressing Kaepernick about the shirt during the call Wednesday. The quarterback initially chose to emphasize the fact that Malcolm X was also on it, saying that it showed the slain civil rights activist’s willingness to be “open-minded” about aspects of the world.
The reporter, who was not identified by the Post but was described as “from a family of Cuban exiles,” asked again about Castro. Kaepernick replied, “I’m not talking about Fidel Castro and his oppression. I’m talking about Malcolm X and what he’s done for people.”
That had the reporter accusing Kaepernick of changing the conversation because it was “uncomfortable” to talk about Castro, who remains a largely reviled figure in Miami’s sizable community of Cuban immigrants. At that point, the quarterback praised a social initiative of the revolutionary-turned-politician.
“One thing that Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system,” Kaepernick said, “which we do not do here, even though we’re fully capable of doing that.”
The reporter pointed out that, unlike what happens in the United States, Castro also broke up families. “We do break up families here,” Kaepernick responded. “That’s what mass incarceration is. That was the foundation of slavery, so our country has been based on that as well as the genocide of Native Americans.”
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Tone Deaf Idiot
Liberals instinctively side with evil.
I need to skip more NFL games
One of these days that idiot’s going to change his name to some Muslim name so he can get even more attention.
Comrade Skilletface needs to move to Havana.
I’m at my son’s house for Thanksgiving. He still watches football. Aretha Franklin sang the national anthem. Awesome.
Why else did Malcolm X pick it?
I wonder if Kaep understands that if he were a Cuban citizen he’d be earning a wage just enough to keep him alive, not the $61 million guaranteed contract he currently has.
Or that he understands that he wouldn’t be allowed to leave the island of his own volition — that he’d be a prisoner.
Or that he understands that publicly expressing an opinion critical of the Cuban gov’t invariably leads to dire consequences.
Nah, the ignoramus understands none of this.
At some point, the team is going to realize he is a liability and buy out the remainder of his contract.
If I read this correctly, has already had his contract through 2020 shortened to end on 2017 instead:
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/colin-kaepernick-7751/
I had to turn off the volume.......her voice has seen better days.
If I read this correctly, a restructure has voided the last 3 years of his contract:
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/colin-kaepernick-7751/
2017 is the last
Why do these guys always seek personal attention in the wrong ways?How about being a spokeman/advocate for St. Judes Hospital for example?Or does that project too much of a good guy persona for a puke like him.
Correct. Since CK had an injury guarantee, the team wasn’t going to play him at all for fear of injury. They would then release him at the end of this season. He renegotiated his contract so he could get playing time without the risk being too high for the Niners.
Reporter wasted his time arguing with a brain-dead moron.
The idea that Cuba has a better educational system and medical system is ludicrous. Who and how are they measuring these things?
And why are people risking their lives to leave Kap?
Blind idiocy
I bet his agent is pissed.
...grilled by a Miami Dolphins reporter...
I'm confused.
New contract, another commission. Churning to earn.
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