Poll: Niners QB Colin Kaepernick most disliked player in league

ESPN ^ | September 21, 2016 | Darren Rovell

[C19fan]

Colin Kaepernick is now the most disliked player in the NFL.

That's at least according to a recent poll of Americans by E-Poll Marketing Research, which asked 1,100 people whose demographics were representative of the general population.

The poll, taken last week, revealed that Kaepernick was "disliked a lot" by 29 percent of those polled, more than any of the more than 350 players asked about in the survey. Kaepernick finished ahead, in the dislike category, of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston (22 percent), Miami Dolphins defensive end Ndamukong Suh (21 percent), New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (13 percent) and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (10 percent).

[C19fan]

Further in the article Kaepernick's approval from the African-American community has skyrocketed. He is not much use anymore to sell men's shaving products but he would make a tremendous spokesman for malt liquor.

[jjotto]

The black community will eventually catch on to Colin Dolezal.

[Libloather]

Has Colin said anything about the looting in Charlotte?

[Hot Tabasco]

And when his football days are over, he’ll cut his hair, shave his face and go back to trying to be a white guy.......

[ETL]

Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, since dating activist DJ

August 30, 2016
FoxNews.com

“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.

Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.

But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur.

During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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For anyone who didn't know, the original Black Panthers were a communist-revolutionary domestic terrorist group like Bill Ayers' Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army. All were Maoist to be precise.
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

[Vaquero]

NFL. What’s that? And what’s the NCAA?

They’re Dead to me.

[scooby321]

Trump V Clinton Debate numbers versus Monday Night Football will be ugly

[SpaceBar]

I actually wonder about freepers who watch professional sports, go to the latest movie, and otherwise fund the very people they detest. Political speech starts at your wallet.

[jiggyboy]

Maybe he could kill some dogs. NFL fans seemed to get over that pretty quickly.

[rlmorel]

As long as you don’t buy a single product made by any company that supports leftist causes like Microsoft, Apple, Ford, GM, or goes to the EU where they are ultra leftist, or if you don’t spend a cent on any product that has any components made in China, or any oil from any Middle Eastern country, I think that is a good philosophy.

If you can say all that, it is a good thing, and you can truly say that political speech starts at your wallet.

Otherwise, you are funding the very people you detest.

[SpaceBar]

Point taken. But you at least have to make an effort.

[SpaceBar]

You basically said that our economy is so complex that we can’t help but pay the people who will slit our throats.

[rlmorel]

I agree. I do think that the fight has to be carried out on a personal level, and for one person versus another, I believe it is for that person to determine where the battle should be fought.

I got to experience just recently how I had to surrender on something that runs counter to a principle I have long held: the concept of denying, limiting, or increasing the cost of health care to someone due to choices they may have, or been perceived to have made.

My health care plan is holding out a financial carrot to people who undergo a health care screening at work (blood sugar, Body Mass Index measurements, signing a form that says you don’t smoke, and so on.)

I vehemently oppose that on the principle. Sure, they say they aren’t charging people MORE for their health care plan if they have high blood sugar, are fat, smoke, or skydive...they are simply offering a discount for people who take the test. (I am sure they are using the tests and questionnaires for “research” and other internal mechanisms)

I have refused to participate in this since they started, and have been paying more for my health care simply because I wouldn’t participate in their screening. So, by default, the provider is charging me more because I won’t participate on principle. My feeling is, if one lets the camel’s nose into the tent, how long would it be before they deny something because you are overweight, smoke, ride without a bicycle helmet, eat liver pate, consume some food with hydrogenated fat or sugar, or drink any kind of soda?

My wife and I view this quite differently, she views this as money, I view it as principle, and a strongly held one, because I don’t think it takes a fertile imagination to see where it will go. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday it will, I guarantee it.

Well, my wife is not happy, because we are spending hundreds of dollars more than we should each year because I won’t just pick up a pen, sign a form, have my weight taken, and get my finger stuck. I see her viewpoint, but it was principle for me, but it was creating an undercurrent in my marriage that I didn’t like. She backed off and didn’t pursue it after a while, but anyone with a spouse knows how to read that spouse, and she wasn’t happy about it. So I gave in.

Point is, there are a LOT of things I simply won’t do, products I won’t buy, and establishments I won’t frequent due to various political considerations. (Examples: Target and JC Penney...won’t buy, won’t go in.) To my wife, she sees there is a sale at JC Penney for some kind of thing, and she leaves me a flyer and a note, asking me to pick something up. I just don’t buy it, or I go somewhere else to get it at a different price. But I have to do what I can, and I have to pick and choose.

I just think it has to be personal, and I can’t bring myself to judge anyone else for these kinds of decisions.

[rlmorel]

Well, there is a lot if interplay.

I can buy a GM car, but the money that pays the workers and goes into their union dues supports unions (which I despise) and is handed out by unions to people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Or there might be a fuel pump in that car made in China that gives them revenue. And so on.

One can limit the flow of money to things they don’t like, but it is impossible to eliminate it.

I personally can’t get excited about taking down the NFL because they are leftist-leaning and politically correct, when my employer is that as well, my computer I type on is run on software created by a company in Redmond, Washington that is far, far, worse, and so on.

I make the effort, but I cannot be 100% consistent, because I think it is impossible for any reasonable person to be 100% consistent. And if you can’t be consistent, then it is like the old joke about an exchange between a man and a woman:

MAN: Would you have sex with me for money?

WOMAN: Well, I don’t know. What are you willing to pay?

MAN: A dollar?

WOMAN: What do you think I am, a prostitute?

MAN: Well, I thought we had already established that and were just haggling about the price...

[Molon Labbie]

Wait a minute while I find my shocked face...

[grania]

The movement Kapiernik started has to take a large part of the blame for the actions of those who were led to riot in Charlotte.

[grania]

As far as “funding the people we detest” we can avoid it as much as possible. Choosing alternatives for products from those who advertise with the NFL and calling the corporation’s consumer line and telling them why has an impact.

[wbill]

Good for you. It's an intensely personal decision to put principle ahead of finance. Be glad that you have choices; I've none at my company, other than to play by their rules or get insurance on my own. Which is completely unaffordable, thanks to Obamacare.

I find myself doing much as you have. I've picked several targets - Target is most certainly one of them - and chosen to boycott them. It shouldn't, but it does give me pleasure to see Target having significant financial difficulty. What was more telling is that the boycott is about the only excuse for poor performance mentioned in any of their quarterly reports for Q2....will be interesting to see what Q3 and 4 hold for them.

I don't, however, pay a whole lot of attention to the "Boycott This or That" crowd on FR. They'd quickly have us living in caves and foraging for food. Almost every corporation in the world does something that some conservative, somewhere, will find distasteful. So, I pick my battles.

JC Penney was one, awhile ago. They're slowly working back into my good graces, as the fools who made a litany of bad decisions (and nearly destroyed the company) are all departed. As I said, though, the decision to boycott is a personal one.

[pepsi_junkie]

Black folk LOVE to talk about how put upon they are. Just eat it up. Not surprised they are in love with Kaepernick.

[rlmorel]

I agree completely with that, grania...