"Your *&$*! seems so much bigger when you hate America, Colin.!!!
Posted on 07/02/2019 4:19:27 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
There is almost nothing to say about the fact that Nike recalled a patriotic American flag shoe after Colin Kaepernick complained. It is so self-evidently absurd and disgraceful — such a cowardly surrender to political correctness — that analysis is rendered moot.
Kaepernick reportedly felt that the flag — a Betsy Ross flag from the American Revolution — somehow represents slavery. Of course, if the American flag represents slavery, then every flag of every country 200 years old or over also represents slavery. Slavery was a universally accepted institution all across the world for thousands of years.
The one notable, though far from surprising, aspect of this story is how it finally exposes the truth behind Kaepernick's kneeling stunt. We were told for years that the kneelers were not protesting the flag — or the country or the national anthem, for that matter. A viral tweet with over 300,000 likes summed up this defense: "Rosa Parks was not protesting the bus. Gandhi was not protesting the food. The colonists were not protesting tea. Players are not protesting the flag or the anthem. They are protesting injustice."
Many in the media, including Shep Smith at Fox News, also made this claim. The NFL players themselves repeatedly declared that they were not protesting the flag, despite appearing to do exactly that. LeBron James, one of the highest-profile defenders of the anthem protests, tried to put a patriotic spin on it: "We know this is the greatest country in the world — it's the land of the free. But we still have problems just like everybody else. And when we have those problems, we have to figure out a way how we come together and be as great as we can be as a people."
Kaepernick, who started it all, said that he was trying to call attention to "police violence" and "systematic oppression." He and his fellow kneelers always insisted that this was not about the flag itself. Well, in case anyone was ever fooled by all of the misdirection, the truth should now be clear: It was indeed about the flag. It was always about the flag.
Colin Kaepernick does not like this country. That much is clear, by now. He is rich and famous and free — all things that he would not be if he lived in any number of other countries around the globe — but his privilege has made him bitter to his core. And he is free to be bitter. He is free to hate the United States and its flag and all it stands for. But he should be honest about where he really stands (or kneels) on the issue.
What’s he complaining about?
He was raised by honkies in a very rural honky area.
100% inauthentic.
His anger was sparked and fed by his Muslim, America-hating girlfriend.
P**** makes you crazy.
Remember Anne Heche...
"Your *&$*! seems so much bigger when you hate America, Colin.!!!
Oh well in that case................. Do like you do colon. Sit down and shut up. Is he collecting unemployment?
Are they gonna recall all the patriotic flag t-shirts too?
Well, I know what will be off MY back-to-school list when we go shopping.
Actually, we’ve been boycotting Nike - and the NFL - for two years now.
Miss neither one...
who is the ghost?
The Ghost of ramadan past.
Nike’s response that it was delaying (now they say) the roll out so as not to detract from July 4th celebrations is so full of sh^t.
Every 4th of July celebtaion I go to is bathed in flags and red,white and blue. The two bit sneakers won’t trigger anything on their own. Only the “culture” of hate Nike fosters.
The idiot chick on my local SF Bay Area talk radio today was talking about this. She’s telling everyone that the Betsy Ross flag, the OK sign, and a bunch of other everyday things are all “White Supremacist” symbols and that it’s “not fair” that they’ve stolen these things from “the rest of us”. Sheesh.
This says a lot about Lesbianism..
I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but there is an online group called "4 chan" that is trolling liberals by proclaiming virtually every sign or gesture to be "White Supremacy" signals.
Their latest is the two fingered peace sign, which they claim is anti-gender diversity because it supports the notion that there are only two genders.
I am not kidding. They cooked up the whole "Okay" sign is a "white supremacist" signal. They are doing it with everything, and the liberals just keep buying these efforts to troll them with no incredulity.
“trolling liberals by proclaiming virtually every sign or gesture to be “White Supremacy” signals.
Their latest is the two fingered peace sign, which they claim is anti-gender diversity because it supports the notion that there are only two genders.”
I don’t think they believe this crap so much but are using it as a two-fer to
1) get their message out
2) show they can control people
Police brutality? How long is this sh#t going to continue? These people are a joke.
tHe PrObLeM iS aLl ThE CoNfEdErAtE fLaG.
The Stars and Stripes can be demonized just as easily as the Stars and Bars. All the same “sins” took place under the Stars and Stripes.
The idiot Kaepernick, if asked to explain what he was protesting, probably could not even articulate it. This dumb ungrateful ex-jock is a joke.
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