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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castro and che hated blacks. The cuban police hate blacks. Breitbart wrote a great book where he tells how the cops tell blacks they pulled them from the trees and cut off their tails.
Stupid thug.
He’s in full delusional / denial mode:
Quarterbacks are supposed to be among the brightest
players on a football team at all levels. Kaepernick
is a huge exception. It is said that his Muslim
activist girlfriend, Nessa Diab, has had a big influence
on him the past couple of years. If that is true then
it shows me that he must have lacked the strength of
character and the intellectual ability to establish his
own identity before he met her a couple of years ago.
I suspect that he has had to somewhat fake it to make it
to have been able to accomplish whatever he has in
his profession. He does not have the smarts to be able
to be an activist rabble rouser and develop his
professional career at the same time. He has passed his
prime such as it was and he is going nowhere but down,
taking his team with him.
Just watching the Lions Vikings game. This halftime phony idiotic show crap has to stop. I don’t even know who the lip syncing singer was but the paid synchronized arm waving supposed fans dancing around is so embarrassing it makes my skin crawl. It seems to get worse every year.
That literacy rate stat is BS. Cuban kids may be able to read the sentence that says America is the evil empire, but the lack of meaningful books to read puts that phony idea to bed fast.
Putting a bullet in the head of your political prisoners will save money on a trial and incarceration.
On my trips I've found Cubans to be well educated, but your taxi driver may be an engineer because he can earn more money in tips from tourist than the $25 per month the government pays.
The Real Cuba - The Infamous Firing Squads (Warning: Graphic Photos)
Symptoms... no matter how wrong my POV may be, in my mind, I'm ALWAYS "right."
He’s a loyal Communist.
I don’t think Mr. Kaepernick is a “loyal communist” at all, he’s just playing an angle and doing a schtick.
Football skills are often fleeting, and unfortunately for Kaepernick, he just isn’t the star he was just a few years ago.
The unamerican, anti-cop story keeps people’s interest in him, and makes people want to tune in or pay to watch him play, if just to boo him.
Controversy sells tickets, when the players don’t have the excellence to compete at the very highest level anymore.
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