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Posted on 08/29/2016 9:18:59 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The nation's fiscal house is collapsing, but we're talking about this crap
I don’t think he deserves the attention that a column about him brings, but Colin Kaepernick’s stunt this past weekend of refusing to stand for the national anthem in a preseason game did generate a couple of thoughts I wanted to share. One concerns the increasingly commonplace (and thus, increasingly meaningless) use of gestures like this by athletes to showboat about issues they really don’t understand. The other concerns the growing inclination of normal Americans to proceed into histrionics about people not standing, not saluting, not putting their hands on their hearts, whatever.
49ers’ Colin Kaepernick: I’m not standing for the anthem of a country that oppresses blacks
A proper response:
America: We're not standing for a football player that puts his personal issues ahead of the national anthem.
Colon Ratnick!!
I’ve seen some comments chide him about his huge shoe collection, all made by pennies an hour Asian child labor.
Perfect irony while he makes $19M a year to ride the pine.
The country does not oppress blacks. Some individuals have at various times oppressed blacks. The country as a collective entity has not oppressed blacks. Some individuals at various times have denied whites their civil rights. At no time has any white ever claimed that the country oppresses whites.
I ask this guy to go to the place that illustrates what happens when you have the perfect combination: black and muslim: Somalia.
Hopefully this d-bag will start this Thursday night and the San Diego Chargers defensive line and line backers have a break out game against him...If Bosa is playing maybe he can get double digit sacks...maybe some of the boys on 49er O line might let a couple Charger linemen “slip past” on accident of course. Maybe a couple of real humbling sacks will clear his head of all this BS!!! Just say’n. Well, at least that is how football used to work.
” I’m not standing for the anthem of a country that oppresses blacks...”, says the black who makes $11M to throw around a football.
Oppression of blacks by whites?
Well he is half-white ... so why doesn’t he punch himself in the face and call it a day?
hypocrisy by these idiots today has reached record levels
I think Kaep knows the end is near, so like Michael Sam, he wants to position himself as a “martyr.”
Full of BS
How about a country that oppresses taxpayers?
You might be on to something. Any move against him now will, of course, be some combination of anti-black discrimination plus Islamophobia. The half black, Muslim in the White House can also opine and stir up more conflict and division in the country, too.
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This asshat needs been reacquainted with whom it was who SOLD his ancestors into slavery. Frankly I am at my whits end of listening to these AH’s. Unfortunately there is not much that can be done to this head case now as he is sitting on a ton of green which he would have NEVER acquired in any other pursuit.
Ha! I just posted pretty much the same thing....like minds! LOLOL
The fans should exercise their First Amendment rights by standing and singing the National Anthem as loudly as possible each and every time CK is sent in to take a snap.
Likely won’t be among the candidates for a Pat Tillman award this season.
“49ers’ Colin Kaepernick: I’m not standing for the anthem of a country that oppresses blacks”
Which country is that? Because it sure isn’t the country that’s made you a millionaire, you putz!
It seems to me that this douchebag is cut from the same cloth as Kanye West. Both are human stains; attention parasites.
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