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.
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.
Remember when RG3 and Kapernick revolutionized the quarterback position for forever?
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.
Obama is just as white as Kaepernick, whose birth mother was white.
#FireKapNow
WoW!!! You made my day with those facts...I sure hope he plays against the Charger starting defense...could be EPIC!!!
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.
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.
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