Posted on 09/09/2017 10:26:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The quarterback’s future has become a political cause over the last year.
When the top black lawmakers and operatives in America meet later this month at an annual, days-long conference in Washington, they want Colin Kaepernick there, too.
The chatter in the lead up to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference in two weeks is that there's a plan in place for Kaepernick to be involved somehow, a half-dozen independent sources told BuzzFeed News.
Both Kaepernick and the CBC find themselves in an entirely different position than just a year ago: The now former NFL quarterback has become a political cause and lightning storm, while some CBC members like Rep. Maxine Waters have also moved to the forefront of national politics in the Trump era.
The sources had no knowledge of whether an agreement had been reached. A representative for Kaepernick did not respond to a request for comment.
The political environment is a complicated one for black lawmakers, who’ve emphasized taking on the president and by-and-large see a racial dynamic in the national news worth addressing: Just in the last month, there’s been the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Trump’s controversial responses to the violent events there, and the apparent police profiling of a well-known NFL star. All the while, the apparent refusal by NFL owners to even hire Kaepernick as a back-up QB has become an activist cause — organizers involved in the winter’s Women’s March recently sent a set of demands to the NFL over the issue.
Congressional Black Caucus chair Cedric Richmond said in July that Kaepernick had “superior talent” than players currently on teams and was simply exercising his first amendment right. “I think it's unfair,” Richmond, a Louisiana Democrat, told TMZ Sports. “I think that he has a lot of talent. He was the starting QB in the Super Bowl and he's a great athlete. And the fact that he spoke up means he's a great person and he spoke his conscience. And I don't think we should penalize people in this country for doing that.”
And now the CBC annual conference is approaching in a much different landscape than last year when Barack Obama delivered an impassioned endorsement of Hillary Clinton. (A foundation spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email asking whether Trump had an invitation to speak this year.) The priorities this year look more like: getting back some of the progressives and young voters who didn’t show up to vote last year, and opposing Trump’s agenda on matters including Obama-era criminal justice guidance.
“It has to be a collective meeting of the minds of first-time Obama voters, progressives, and younger folks, and more,” a Democratic strategist close to the CBC told BuzzFeed News. “We need that coalition [because] if you look what happened [in 2016], we lost some people. We’re not at a place where we can afford to have different segments and especially. So the message at ALC is unity and the need that everyone is active collectively and has a central role to play.”
Well he certainly isn’t your average run of the mill unemployed black man.
I would suggest that out in the working-class black community....Colin Kaepernick and his antics aren’t that inviting, and this tool to use his theme won’t work. For the black lawmakers (notably Democratic)....this will be a limited situation.
I do believe that Kaepernick will end up in two years as some political creation and probably even run for mayor of some California city.
Lousy politicians hanging out with a lousy quarterback. Yep - makes sense to me...
Good, glad he’s found a new career. He can give speeches at airport meeting facilities for $250 a pop.
I love this stuff. Nothing burger molehill.
We are getting this cr@p rammed down our throats, and there’s very little that will be done. The MSM is helping to keep this nonsense as an ongoing cause. I sometimes think we would be better off with a civil war.
He’ll probably just lead them in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Invocation.
This is Kaepernick’s future - as a bit player in America’s left-wing racial grievance scene. I really thought some team would pick him up - he’s got talent, even though he’s fallen off badly since his 2012-2013 peak - but his actions indicate that he’s really no interested in football anymore.
Hardy-har-har!
Serious question, though: Does the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation even have the Pledge of Allegiance and/or Invocation during their annual legislative conferences?
I would pay actual money to see Kaepernick attend that, and then refuse to rise... or to agree to rise... Either way, it would be a hoot.
Regards,
They will invite Michael Bennett to come and lie some more about the Las Vegas Police.
What? They don’t want Bill Cosby anymore?
No, it does not, you idiot. It means he is an ignorant, narcissistic bunghole.
What next? Shaking down NFL to make Kaepernick NFL president much like Obama got there through shakedown and hate of whites?
The Democrats are going to put Kaepernick into Congress. next year or 2020. They will say it proves what a great guy he is to overcome bigotry and go on to get elected but it will e entirely due to a Democrat machine putting him into a reliable slot from one of the Democrat cities.
His life is not screwed up. he is a promising political personality and George Soros and the DNC are surely making sure he continues in that role is paid appropriately.
Oh, yeah because Chairman Mao and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Stalin are dead.
These morons do not even realize that they are exactly the reason this man will never get a job playing on a football field again!
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