Posted on 08/29/2016 10:08:43 AM PDT by shortstop
All Colin Kaepernick did was connect the progressive dots.
He got an A on the test.
His conclusion -- that the United States is an evil nation built and maintained for the oppression of black people -- is exactly the point made repeatedly by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic platform and any number of progressive candidates and activists.
He did nothing that their words have not implicitly demanded time and time again.
At the end of last week, in a meaningless preseason NFL game, meaningless back-up 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down through the national anthem as a sign of protest. He said he did it because he could not "show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people."
Kaepernick is just about as black as Barack Obama. Both were born to white women of black fathers who disappeared, and both were raised in white homes in white communities.
And both are pretty sure that America is, from beginning to end, a cross between the Nazi Third Reich and the South African apartheid state. They are both pretty sure that this nation was born, raised and lives in racial sin. Specifically, that the operating purpose of the American goverment and nation is the oppression of blacks for the benefit of whites.
Meaning all the "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "more perfect union" stuff is a bunch of eyewash.
The problem for Kaepernick is that he's taking guff for it while Obama gets rousing ovations for it.
The fact is, however, that Kaepernick merely chose a slightly different form of disrespect for the national anthem and the country than other similarly inclined athletes. For years we've been treated to the bored gum chomping of put-upon athletes who clearly resent having to stand in line and be subjected to what they seem to think is some moral equivalent of the Horst Wessel song.
Even during the recent Olympics it was pretty easy to sort out opinions atop the medals podium as the American national anthem played. When four American athletes are looking around and being annoyed during the anthem, or when four others stand there and one has her hand on her heart and the three others pointedly don't, it's clear to see that somebody's sending some sort of message.
And that message is the gospel of the progressive left.
Liberal Democrats at their recent convention and current campaign -- and for the last decade at least -- have defined America and its institutions as the problem, not the solution. America is the bad guy in Democrat mythology, and in too many American classrooms and lecture halls.
When Democrat politicians up and down the food chain denounce the United States for its "institutional" and "systemic" racism, they are burning the flag in their own way. If America is the South Africa of today, then its Founders and founding documents are sources not of strength, but of shame. The American heart is not generous, brave and kind, it is dark and evil, and patriots are the brown shirts of today.
In fact, the inescapable conclusion of progressive dogma is that patriotism is racism.
If you believe in and support a racist entity -- the United States of America -- you are a racist.
Maybe that's why the Democratic National Convention didn't display an American flag until shamed into doing so on social media.
And maybe Colin Kaepernick has established a new standard for progressive orthodoxy.
If he, on the basis of believing America oppresses blacks, refuses to stand for the anthem, how can any person of similar belief stand for the anthem and not be a hypocrite and a betrayer of the cause?
If rejection of America and its symbols is the logical expression of one's belief that this is a systematically racist society, how can any honest progressive do anything but reject America?
And how can any honest progressive see patriotism as anything but a support for systemic racism?
And how can any honest progressive see the American flag or other symbols of American institutions as anything other than racially offensive tokens of bigotry?
How long before the American flag joins the Confederate flag on the list of forbidden symbols?
That's how Democrats know Republicans are racists -- because they are patriots who love their country, its flag and its founding documents.
As the progressive movement of the Democratic Party insists on an embrace of globalism, it simultaneously demands a disavowal of American patriotism and identity.
Colin Kaepernick understands that.
And he sat down for it.
All he did was connect the progressive dots.
And before long you may be forced by the oppression of political correctness to do the same.
My opinion is that the vast majority of minorities want and enjoy the separation of the races.
They have a built in escape in anything that they do, its the I’m a minority and you hate me for it.
The worst thing that can happen is for everyone to be treated as an equal, because most of them know that they would fail spectacularly.
The separation and divisiveness gives them status and a position in society that they would not otherwise have.
No, he’s just an idiot who knows he’s about to be cut, and wanted to be a “martyr.” No different than Michael Sam.
Now Kaepernick has gone from the height of stardom to the realization his NFL career is basically over. He will not be the 49ers starting QB and his release due to lack of performance is a foregone conclusion.
So, he came up with this stunt to 1. get his name in the news and on Sportscenter, 2. paint the 49ers into a "racist" corner if they release him (thus hopefully prolonging the time to that inevitable release), and 3. if he is released it is because of RACISM and he can fool himself into thinking someone else will sign him and SUE the entire NFL for "blackballing" him when nobody does step forward to sign him.
Now they'll be HALF-EMPTY!.................
So do I.
I also hope they put him on the field a lot. Behind their 2nd string line...
Yes, he is the face of muslim America. Also defying our culture and make a big fuss about it with cameras around.
He is also the face of an entitled, way way overpaid athlete with low IQ.
He is a has been/one trick pony NFL QB.
So like the Clintons, he uses the phoney charges of racism to cover his being a loser.
Later, he hopes to become another Ali, getting big money telling liberal audiences how his brave stand against racism cost him his NFL career.
It will not work for him. At least Ali was a world champion and not a low talent wanna be like this pos.
Great point about legal immigrants from Africa.
The ones I know either have advanced degrees, or they are small businesspeople who work their tails off. They don’t have any sense of entitlement or chip on their shoulder about white people. They are genuinely glad to be here and out of that hellhole they came from.
They denied the Cowboys the right to honor dead Police but allow this fool everything
I call BS on the NFL they have a dress code on and off the field.
It may take time but with concessions and the money to go to an NFL it may be on it's way out. The Public are not so happy to give Billionaires free Stadiums anymore
Even though you can't get a Super Bowl unless the Taxpayers fool the bill for a new Stadium
This serves to further alienate people making them more likely to vote for Trump
By virtue of his conversion to Islam, he should be on that list.
These shoulder chips also ironically turn out to be rather colorblind. Whoever they bump into — and it’s mostly people of their OWN color — gets the chip treatment. The result is to amp up the general anger and frustration.
The Christianized people had the right idea — wish good to your neighbor and look to God for blessings, and you’ll succeed in both.
It’s actually a very simple trick and I can’t believe the Left keeps getting away with it: two standards, one of which is that if there’s anything good about a progressive system (healthcare or literacy in Cuba, for example), it validates the complete goodness of that system, and if there’s anything bad you can find about this country’s system (a single instance of a “hate crime” even when it’s a fake), it completely invalidates that system. You accept that premise, the rest follows. When your President promotes that system, the rest follows. When it becomes academic canon, the rest follows. It’s a simple and blatant cheat, but through sheer dint of repetition it’s come to be regarded as fact.
Sit on the bench, hypocrite.
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Absolutely.
Man's first instincts are to blame someone else, or something else, for their predicament, rather than looking in the mirror. Yes, people are depraved and tend to treat others badly, or with suspicion. In America this has included Blacks, Irish, Mexicans, Chinese, Italians, etc, ad nauseum. And America is the best of countries - it has been (and is) worse in many other places (e.g., Tutsi slaughtering Hutsis - or vice versa - in Rwanda).
The liberals/Democrats in America want to keep groups wallowing in victim hood, rather than embracing Christian forgiveness, allowing for Man's natural depravity, and moving on to improve their lot by their own honest actions and efforts.
Teddy Roosevelt & his 'Bull Moose' running mate Hiram Johnson (a Liberal Republican who called himself a Progressive) would both have absolutely despised those the writer was referring to. So would the Liberal Senator La Follette who tried to revive the "Bull Moose" movement in 1924. These men were part of the small group that raised the public awareness to stop Wilson's League of Nations gambit.
Now do not take me in the wrong way on this. I am pointing out the writer's confusion. I am not endorsing Hiram Johnson or La Follette; merely pointing out that they were patriotic Americans, even if they favored more Government at home than I would ever have accepted.
As for Teddy Roosevelt, he had some not so good points. But at least two of his children, turned out to be very effective Conservatives in the 1950s & 1960s; who fought against the Leftist tide of the era.
And really, how much of "a minority" is he?
He looks more Italian than African American.
Take him as the individual he is, not as representative of some group he really doesn't belong to.
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