Posted on 09/01/2016 8:52:12 AM PDT by yoe
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has said he plans to sit out the national anthem tonight, just as he did in the preseason game against the Green Bay Packers last week and other games this summer before reporters took notice.
He says his protest will continue indefinitely. “When there’s significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it’s supposed to represent in this country, I’ll stand,” Kaepernick told reporters Sunday.
[snip] The timing of the Military Night is coincidental, a Chargers' spokesman told the San Diego Union-Tribune earlier this week, adding that the team sponsors a Salute to the Military once every preseason.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Really???? When??? He is scheduled to start
Nearest I can tell, it will only be locally broadcast, in San Diego and San FranFreako.
Yawn........another ANGRY and MISERABLE Black man.....yawn......I mean half Black man.....
Paid a guaranteed $61 Million dollar bonus. No wonder he can’t smile.
IF he gave all his money away, moved to the worst neighborhood in Chicago and dedicated his life to helping a single neighborhood improve I might give him some credit for putting his money where his mouth is. NEVER WILL HAPPEN.
and put on the pointy hat
LOL! I was thinking the same thing. The dunce cap. Quite fitting in this case. :)
I think he’s got guaranteed money, and a guaranteed payout if he gets hurt...for 1 more year. They’ll probably keep him on the roster as a backup, but only play him in the direst of emergency, to avoid the injury payout. This effectively steals a year of his career from him...but its what the players get when their union pushes for guaranteed injury payouts.
Then he’ll be a free agent, with a checkered past and not many good years left - in other words a Raiders prospect.
Yep, not in a million years. There's a much better chance of him paying off the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
“Look at him.....angry, petulant, spoiled”
Exactly! He claims to give credit to God, and has tattoos of scripture on his body, but as always, actions speak louder that words, and this guy is not only making a fool of himself, but is being very disrespectful of both God and Country: God gave him talent, America gave him the opportunity to prosper, and he’s spitting on both. “Angry, petulant, spoiled.” Perfect.
Yawn........another ANGRY and MISERABLE Black man.....yawn......I mean half Black man.....
Paid a guaranteed $61 Million dollar bonus. No wonder he can’t smile.
IF he gave all his money away, moved to the worst neighborhood in Chicago and dedicated his life to helping a single neighborhood improve I might give him some credit for putting his money where his mouth is. NEVER WILL HAPPEN.
He’s a piece of shit
CK’s contract has been misreported. He isn’t guaranteed anything after this season. The $61 mill is in case of injury. His actual ‘guarantee’ is under $30 mill. With his attitude, he’ll be broke in a couple years.
Oh yeah. And...
Eff You Colin Kaepernick.
I kinda agree with liberals on this.
It is his right to remain seated during the national anthem, protest the police and grip about his stupid complaints.
The part the liberals don’t understand. Everyone else has the right to protest Kapernick, critcize him and boycott him as well.
Think I heard this morning on news that military families given tickets for the tribute so grab the popcorn!
This idiot will probably wear his pig socks too
Actually, the "OLE" block is used quite often, especially in pre-season, to help guide Prima-Dona QBs back into line.
Teams tolerate it with backup, marginal or troublemaker QBs.
Obviously you wouldn't see it with a franchise QB like Brady, but even John Elway was the recipient of this when he was a rookie.
many times the OL player will even let the Defense know he is going to let him run free.
While he sits out, and disses our National Anthem, the opposing DEEfensive players will be painting a mental bullseye target on him. I foresee a tough game for the lad.
Or bring out a whole new crop of media whores looking for attention. This is like the clenched fist black power thing of the late 60's.
Anyone reading about this loser’s history would have to agree he certainly isn’t grateful for all the handouts he has been given in life. What a role model. Not!
Colin Kaepernick’s Clumsy Caper
Written by Laurie Higgins - Illinois Family Institute
Colin Kaepernick, NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, has generated a dust-up over his refusal to stand during the “Star Spangled Banner.” Kaepernick said “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”
While some “progressives” are defending his stunt, arguing that a verse of the National Anthem that is never sung—anywhere—has a racist message, Kaepernick didn’t mention the National Anthem, he referred to the flag.
For those who don’t know, Colin Kaepernick was adopted by a white family after his destitute, 19-year-old, white birth mother gave him up. His black biological father abandoned him and his mother before his birth. Kaepernick excelled at basketball, baseball, and football in high school and in addition to a football scholarship, he was offered multiple scholarships to play collegiate baseball. He has made millions playing for the NFL since 2011.
So, some questions for Kaepernick:
When you say the country, what exactly do you mean? The government? Every branch of government? Every department? Every elected official? The Constitution? Laws? Which laws? The police? Every police department? Every police officer? Teachers in government schools?
Does your assessment of the unworthiness of America include the sacrifices of soldiers who have given their lives to defend and protect people all around the world? Does it include men like my father who served and suffered during WWII? Does it include missionaries and medical personnel like Jim Elliot and Natalie Bullock who sacrificed the comforts you enjoy and sometimes their lives because they love people of color?
Could it be that the “country” that oppresses people of color is primarily constituted by Democrats?
• After all, it was Democrats who supported Jim Crow laws in the South.
• It was only 23 percent of Democrats in Congress who supported the passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, while 100 percent of Republicans supported it.
• It was Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• It’s Democrats who have been promoting policies and laws that have incentivized fatherless families, which has long been known to be the central cause of poverty and anti-social behavior.
• It was Democrats who through their demand that homoerotic unions be legally recognized as “marriages” have now institutionalized fatherless (and motherless) families.
• It’s Democrats who for decades have controlled virtually every major American city where schools are failing people of color and where crime destroys lives.
• It’s Democrats like Barack Obama who, while sending their children to elite, expensive private schools, deny school vouchers for inner city families of color whose children are instead forced into underperforming and dangerous schools. And it’s Democrats who protect teachers unions that enable terrible teachers to keep their jobs.
• It’s Democrats who support Planned Parenthood, the baby-killing machine that profits from the deaths of far more babies of color than colorless babies.
One of the many problems with public schools today is the imbalanced and dishonest way they address the entwined issues of race and American history. Leftist “agents of change” (also known comically as teachers) present a lopsided view of American history, emphasizing the injustices that mar America’s history while de-emphasizing America’s social and political progress and acts of justice and compassion that ignite the imaginations of oppressed peoples around the world. America undeniably has a troubling history with regard to race, but that’s not the whole story.
America also has a remarkable history of racial and ethnic integration and an admirable history of self-correction. Is there a country on the planet that has as successfully integrated as many diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups as America? Is it possible to walk through a mall or a public school in America without seeing interracial couples or interracial, inter-ethnic groups of teenagers chatting and laughing together? Can you enter a church without seeing families that are multiracial by choice through adoption?
This is a country whose founding principles and documents have made possible the kind of social progress that enabled a biracial baby to be adopted by a white family and go on to earn millions. This is the country Kaepernick sees as “oppressive” and others see as a social and political marvel.
The American flag represents the greatest nation in history. It’s a country that countless people have died to defend or died in the attempt to arrive at its shores. While Kaepernick continues to publicly demonstrate his disappointment with our imperfect union, perhaps he could tell us which country’s flag he finds worthy of respect.
I hope the Chargers are treating thousands of Marines to free tickets to this game!
A Muslim that handles pigskin. I stole that line.
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