Colin Kaepernick returned to Pitman in 2013 to honor his high school football coach, Brandon Harris
Posted on 09/13/2018 6:38:18 AM PDT by ETL
When Turlock, California’s Pitman High School was coming up with a list for its inaugural athletic hall of fame class, it probably didn’t take long before they got to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Twelve years after he graduated from Pitman, five years after he led the San Francisco 49ers to within inches of a Super Bowl title and one year after GQ named him its Citizen of the Year for his highly publicized social activism, Kaepernick will headline his prep alma mater’s first hall of fame class.
Kaepernick is expected to attend the ceremony along with eight other inductees on Nov. 3.
A 2006 graduate of Pitman, Kaepernick excelled at prep baseball and basketball in addition to football, earning All-State nominations in all three sports. He is the second player from Northern California’s Stanislaus County to ever appear in a Super Bowl, per the school’s announcement.
In the announcement, the school steered clear of Kaepernick’s controversial 2016 decision to kneel during the national anthem in protest of social injustice and racial inequality. He is currently waging a collusion lawsuit against the NFL that alleges he was blackballed by all 30 teams for his actions.
Last week, Nike made Kaepernick the face of its 30th anniversary “Just Do It” advertising campaign, which helped ensure his name and cause continued to spark national conversation. As promised, the former Niners quarterback has donated more than $1 million of his earnings to social justice charities.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Here's the proof...
“'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 [communist] Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur [aka, communist-revolutionary 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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Here's a close up of the jerk's shirt. It reads "Like Minds Think Alike" (Fidel Castro and black radical/communist Malcolm X)
“With the 49ers visiting the Dolphins this week, San Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick engaged in a conference call with members of the South Florida media. However, one reporter wanted to discuss something that happened in August, when Kaepernick wore a shirt that appeared to show support for Fidel Castro, which led to a tense exchange.
The shirt depicted scenes from a 1960 meeting between Castro and Malcolm X, and it bore the phrase, “Like minds think alike.” Kaepernick wore it to a news conference after the 49ers’ third preseason game, which was when his refusal to stand during the national anthem became a major national story.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/11/24/colin-kaepernick-grilled-by-miami-dolphins-reporter-over-fidel-castro-shirt/?utm_term=.1db56249b83a
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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 [Newton] 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.
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"Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American political activist and revolutionary who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He continued to pursue an education, eventually earning a Ph.D. in social philosophy.[1][2] In 1989 he was shot and killed in Oakland, California. ..."
"As a student at Merritt College in Oakland, Newton became involved in politics in the Bay Area. He joined the Afro-American Association (AAA), became a prominent member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, Beta Tau chapter; and played a role in getting the first African-American history course adopted as part of the college's curriculum.
He read the works of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, Émile Durkheim, and Che Guevara.
During his time at Merritt College, he met Bobby Seale, and the two organized the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in October 1966.[3]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton
Backup link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171125112853/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton
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Below are the names and photos of 35 Police Officers who were murdered by the Black Panthers and the subsequent Black Liberation Army in the 60s, 70s and 80s [click link for list and details].
The Black Liberation Army was an organization that grew out of the Black Panther Party, composed of former Black Panther Party members, operating from about 1971-1980. Another two police officers on the list were murdered by the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group with ties to the Black Liberation Army.
Despite this readily available information, today the internet was full of articles criticizing those who were upset by Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime performance, and questioning how anyone could be upset over a woman “affirming her blackness.” Their analysis couldn’t have been more off.
We have no issues with someone “affirming their blackness” or any other identity they want to affirm. We do take issue when people pay homage to a group that used terrorism and violence to promote racism and revolutionary socialism – a group that murdered dozens of police officers in cold blood.
As you scroll through the list of officers below, look at their photos and read their stories. Among these officers are black men and white men. Rookies and veterans from across the country. Most were killed in unprovoked attacks and ambushes. They all left behind families….
Perhaps Beyonce, someone from the NFL, and someone representing CBS, could read through this list and tell us if they still stand by their decision to honor the Black Panthers during the Super Bowl. Then perhaps they could explain their answers to the surviving wives and children of these fallen officers. ...”
Well, he IS famous. :-)
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The boy is always throwing tantrums and whining that he gets no R-E-S-P-E-C-T because he’s “black” and his whole high school is going to kiss his @$$. I don’t get it. When does the no respect stuff start?
Just making an NFL team should be sufficient for any HS HOF. I endorse his selection.
islamicommunist school?
Must be.
Will KaeperPrick bring his trans gf as his date?
Yeah - that’s how to teach your kids...
Is this the same hometown that saw him raised by white family and knew him to be half white?
What a white nagger...
“High School” Hall of fame?
HahaHaha!!
I don’t care about the Colin aspect of this. I just think it’s kind of stupid for a high school to have a “hall of fame” for athletes.
High school is about many things, and includes giving some kids a chance to further a career in sports.
But it’s not a sports team that hires players, it is an educational institution, which should not focus on how “famous” certain people became.
I might feel differently if they were just making a wall with pictures of graduates who are well-known.
Well, whether it was sufficient or not in this case would depend on the HS faculty's agenda wouldn't it?
Are there any exceptions to just making the NFL? Suppose the candidate was a felon? A convicted wife-beater? Etc.
In this case, the candidate has had a very short, controversial NFL career and most NFL players do not agree with his non-football game time demonstrations. Further, his career has placed the game's brand at risk, offended a large portion of the national audience and negatively impacted his employer's business.
Good example? Or, are the marketplace economics irrelevant?
Couple this with the fact that K is an open and public admirer of generally well-known anti-American political figures.
If the faculty's agenda is to impress and persuade its students how to vote in the near future, this was probably a great choice.
Would one of the NFL teams please hire KaeperNike to put the final nail in the NFL coffin?
What if he had sometime afterwards committed a murder, or raped a woman. Would you still be good with the decision?
Is that his “girlfriend”?
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