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Conservative Tribune ^ | 9/5/16 | Benjamin Arie

[Impala64ssa]

Here’s How We’d Have Dealt With This

Colin Kaepernick is having a rough year. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback turned “social justice warrior” gained attention last season for protesting America by refusing to stand for the national anthem… and now he seems to be perpetually out of a job.

To add insult to injury, a far more famous football player just had some harsh criticism for Kaepernick.

NFL Hall of Famer and Super Bowl IX MVP Franco Harris spoke out about situation over the weekend, and explained how a team would deal with someone like Kaepernick back in the golden days of football.

“We had two of the meanest guys in football who I think would have dealt with it that way. And that would have been Joe Greene and Jack Lambert,” the former Pittsburgh Steeler told journalist John Ziegler.

Greene was so tough that he earned the nickname “Mean Joe Greene,” while Lambert was known to intimidate opponents with a toothless smile.

Harris made it clear that while free speech is important, dishonoring the American flag is not something that his generation of players would find acceptable.

“This has been my position from the start that we always, sure we have certain social issues that we will always be dealing with, but that you stand for the flag,” he said. “And that we are all behind the flag.”

Harris, whose father was African-American and whose mother was a white “war bride” from Italy, stated that he respected Kaepernick’s right to protest. But he had a major issue with how the controversial quarterback used his team uniform for attention.

“But when he puts on that suit and steps out on that field, now it’s more than just him,” said Harris.

“It’s his teammates, it’s the NFL, and it’s the fans. And when he puts that suit on, it is not just about him and his position and things that he wants to back and he wants to believe in,” Harris said. “Because the team has to come first.”

Harris added that there was a time and a place to make a social statement — but the football field wasn’t it.

“If he wants to make statements and take a position, then that’s fine absolutely, go do that,” stated Harris. “But there’s no reason why you couldn’t do it after practice, on another platform than doing it with a suit in the stadium.”

The old-school football player is on the ball. A football jersey is the professional suit of a multi-million dollar professional, and the stadium is a workplace.

Just as staging a daily protest in front of your employer is in poor taste, so is insulting American fans by refusing to stand for the national anthem. And Americans are tired of it.

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[Impala64ssa]

Before the crap going on in the NFL, I've been a Jets and Giants fan through thick and thin. And I've also admired the Steelers, going back to the days of Franco Harris, Rocky Bleier, Mean Joe Green. As tough as Mean Joe was on the field, off the field he's a class act. Who could forget that Coke commercial with Mean Joe and the kid?. Could any of the knee takers do such a commercial today, and at least pretend to make it genuine? Kudos to Mr. Harris! Being biracial surely he must've gotten sh!t from all sides, yet he still knows what's right.

[hinckley buzzard]

I remember Franco Harris well, he of the Immaculate Reception, and I doubt he ever took any sh!t from anybody.

[DoughtyOne]

right and wrong knows no race or gender

Good for Green. He got it exactly right here.

[Enchante]

Franco Harris has it exactly right! Kaeperdick is not protesting on his own time and his own dime, he is using the uniform, stadium, fans, TV contracts, etc. to make his “personal statement.” He has no right to hijack professional team events for his own purposes.

[rlmorel]

Great statement by that man. That is how it should be.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep I remember Franco’s Italian Army.......

[Impala64ssa]

Just like the line from one of Billy Joel’s big hits “you can speak your mind/ but not on my time..”

[rigelkentaurus]

Haven’t watched football in 30+ years and they played in completely different eras, but I would pay good money to watch Dick Butkus sack Krappy 5-6 times in a single game, especially if Krappy’s offensive line “accidentally” let Dick through a couple of times - not that he needed the help.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Off topic but bring g back memories. My dad thought his name was Frank O’Harris. He couldn’t believe somebody’s name was Franco...

Wonder what my dad would think today, so many names sound like random Scrabble letters strung together.

Very different subject but you wonder why so many black people today have names which never existed before?

[detective]

You know it would be a former Pittsburgh Steeler who would tell the truth about Kaepernick. NFL players were once patriotic.

Vince Lombardi and those of the earlier era loved America.

Great job Franco. You are a class guy.

[detective]

“you wonder why so many black people today have names which never existed before?”

They can’t spell.

[TomGuy]

Kaepernick should be thanking all of the NFL teams for not signing him and, thus, putting him in a position were he weekly has to participate in a ceremony he finds so personally distasteful.

:)

[ETL]

former San Francisco 49ers quarterback turned “social justice warrior”

former San Francisco 49ers quarterback turned *Communist*.

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Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers...

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. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]

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

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Colin Kaepernick is having a rough year.

He's a multi-millionaire and he's found a new profession as a useful pawn for far-left figures like Linda Sarsour. His football career may well be over, but that's largely his choice - he could probably get a job as an NFL backup if he were as outspoken about his desire to play football as he is about various left-wing talking points, and he could probably have a job in the CFL as a starter if he wanted it.

Kaepernick peaked in 2012-2013. It's all been downhill since then. This has not been a bad year at all for him - he's found his post-football calling and we will continue to see him in the role of minor left-wing celebrity for years to come.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Mega kudos! They got it right. Your an employee of the team and the fans pay for your team. The performance you are being paid to give is to satisfy the customer and earn a profit for the company. Make your personal statements on your own dime.

BTW. does anyone watch AGT? (don’t judge me please). A young male singer “male diva” who can hang with Whitney Houston decided to perform “his” song so as to “express himself” so that people could see “me” Howie Model the reformed rainbow warrior castigated him. Said, “if it aint broke don’t fix it and you just fixed it and you probably won’t go forward”.

[FreedomNotSafety]

dang auto complete Model = Mandel

[KyCats]

I bet Rocky Bleier would have been right there with Mean Joe and Lambert when they were “explaining things” to Kaepernick.

[hsmomx3]

I sure miss those 70’s teams. My fav has to be Jack Lambert.

[hsmomx3]

I would pay to see that!!!

[DoodleDawg]

It’s been established that Kaepernick would be on a team if his primary interest was football. But instead his interest is in being a social warrior and no team is going to pay him to do that.