Posted on 08/28/2016 2:22:21 PM PDT by drewh
Rep. Pete King shot back on Sunday.
"Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem is entirely wrong," King, a Republican Representative from the second district, said in an email statement. "It is also an indicator of how low our cultural standards have been degraded that anyone is actually supporting this behavior.
". . . Having an NFL quarterback insult our flag by refusing to stand during the playing of the 'Star Spangled Banner,' adds neither honesty nor intelligence to that debate."
King added Kaepernick's claims of black oppression are overstated and, more controversially, self-inflicted.
"Kaepernick charges that America 'oppresses black people and people of color' even though America has elected and re-elected an African-American President and in the previous eight years of the Bush Administration both Secretaries of State (Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice) were African-American," King said. "And in Kaepernick's NFL the large majority of players are African-American.
"If he is referring to violence against African-Americans, that comes primarily from within the black community itself. If he is reciting the fraudulent Black Lives Matter theme that police are targeting African-Americans, then he is clearly wrong and misguided.
King added America's immigration is a sign of strength in the racial debate.
New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz, a black Puerto Rican American, chided his fellow NFL player for making it personal and racial.
"Regardless of how you feel about the things that are going on in America today and the things that are going on across the world with gun violence and things like that: You've got to respect the flag and stand up with your teammates," Cruz told USA Today's Lorenzo Reyes.
"It's bigger than just you." !
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Blacks are 13% of the US population but I swear I see a much higher percentage as actors, sports figures, sportscasters, newscasters, politicians, progressives, and and rabble rousers.
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Kaepernick needs to be sent packing.
He refuses to acknowledge all of the undeserved benefits he has received solely due to his race, including his adoption by a well to do white family.
Time to cut him loose.
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Image was the wrong way to post this.
#FireKapNow
Hope Kap paid cash for his great big SF mansion. His paychecks may be quite a bit smaller if he bought it on a 30 year mortgage like the rest of us......He might not be able to keep up the payments-—AND the Calif taxes—1.25% +++ of the purchase price, with 2% increases every year.
**** “That was the first VCR tape I ever bought..the story always stayed with me as well as Woods and Belushi’s acting...” ****
Just watched the pre-views... Never, I could not finish the pre-views...
It is the period, not the acting.
yup, it’s a free country, for him and for all of us (we hope it still is!)
I know it’s too much to hope for, but it would be great if tv viewership and stadium attendance would plummet for any games this anti-patriotic a-hole is involved with. He may not be starting more games anyway, his career has been in the toilet for a while.
send the POS to Canada, then....
Canada won’t take him. As a support for the NFL, the CFL won’t hire any player from the NFL that exhibits any behavior inconsistent with the NFL ideals. So, he has no where to go, literally.
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This issue puzzled me for a couple of reasons.
The first is that Colin does not look obviously Black.
The second is that what would drive him to this weird behavior? If he were white, is it white guilt?
If he sees himself as Black, what's his beef?
So I dug deeper.
The facts make him a male Michelle Obama, "for the first time, proud of his country...
The rest of the story makes him a world class ingrate and an insult to his White adoptive family.
Nothing else needs be said.
Judge for yourself :
"Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, a 19-year-old woman who was single and destitute at the time. His birth father, an African American, was out of the picture before he was born.[1][2][3] Russo placed her son for adoption with Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple who had two children...
I must lead a really sheltered life.
This country gave him everything and he spits all over it. That’s the way slimes behave.
Can his ass! Wouldn’t want to pay some jackass in US dollars that flag represents!
Just as Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, "No one can make you feel guilty without your consent," which I had intuitively lived before learning the words, this loser ingrate has zero effect on me. Doesn't even generate pity.
Thugball is soooooo last century!
That this clown, making himself rich playing a game, impresses me not one whit.
Just kissing his bicep because he is so strong
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