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49ers’ Colin Kaepernick: I’m not standing for the anthem of a country that oppresses blacks
Canada Free Press ^ | Dan Calabrese

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.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 49ers; anthem; antiwhiteracism; blackliesmatter; colinkaepernick; cutthebum; kaepernick; kaepernickmuslim; nationalanthem; nfl; oppressesblacks; rop; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko
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To: areukiddingme1
You forgot to add the game will be in San Diego. Guess what's in San Diego area: a MASSIVE military presence with a large US Navy base (including two aircraft carriers based there), MCAS Miramar north of the city and Camp Pendleton in northwestern San Diego County.

Nice going, Mr. Kaepernick. You'll be playing in front of fans--many of whom are in the military service or on civilian employment at the various military bases in the area. You will be LOUDLY given the "Bronx cheer," to say the least.

41 posted on 08/29/2016 10:24:17 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Remember when RG3 and Kapernick revolutionized the quarterback position for forever?


42 posted on 08/29/2016 10:31:29 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Olog-hai
Oppression of blacks would preclude a black POTUS.

Yes...about that. Could Mr. K please explain just what exactly he is talking about when he uses the word "oppression"?

Voting?
Freedom to work?
Freedom of association?
Freedom to use public education?
Freedom to eat unmolested in a restaurant?
Freedom to marry who they choose?

What exactly is he talking about? Some criminals who couldn't follow the directives of a police officer and got shot for their trouble who just happened to be black? That hardly constitutes oppression.

43 posted on 08/29/2016 10:41:29 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama is just as white as Kaepernick, whose birth mother was white.


44 posted on 08/29/2016 11:57:06 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: All
FIRE KAP NOW!!!

#FireKapNow

45 posted on 08/29/2016 6:55:19 PM PDT by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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To: RayChuang88; All

WoW!!! You made my day with those facts...I sure hope he plays against the Charger starting defense...could be EPIC!!!


46 posted on 08/30/2016 5:31:32 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Organic Panic
“LOOKS AT ME!!! I am so oppressed. I only make 20 million dollars a year.”

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard him say anything about spending a dime from the millions he's making each year to help the "oppressed blacks" that he's so concerned about.

47 posted on 08/30/2016 5:44:58 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Mixed race people raised by whites feeling very aggrieved, even more so than blacks themselves is indeed a pattern that is affecting this country in very negative ways.


48 posted on 08/30/2016 2:23:29 PM PDT by Crucial
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