Posted on 08/27/2016 1:58:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Colin Kaepernick did not stand during the national anthem Friday because he refused to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he told the NFL Network’s Steve Wyche after the game.
“To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way,” Kaepernick said. “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback has been outspoken on his Twitter and Instagram account about racial issues, including the Black Lives Matter movement, over the last eight months. His most recent retweet on Friday was of a New York Daily News story about Arizona teens who were told to remove Black Lives Matter shirts. The movement began in 2013 to protest violence against black Americans, especially at the hands of law enforcement....
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Deport him to Africa so he won’t feel so oppressed
Why doesn’t he just take a 75% cut in his salary and ask the NFL give it to the oppressed.
“too many hits to the head, concussion things”
I’ve had 3 concussions, last one with projectile vomiting and temporary blindness and I’m not that stupid!
I think he suffers from DMSB syndrome. Democrat manipulation since birth.
My level of interest in the game at that level continues to wane.
Prolly he’s just tired or more likely, needy of attention.
Not sure but Santa Clara is on San Francisco Bay.
Now LA Angels in Anaheim in Orange County., That doesn’t seem right.
I was ready after November 2008 and 2012.
Nothing happened. NOTHING!!
No, the NFL is too busy making sure the Cowboys don’t show some respect to dead cops.
Pray America wakes
Everyone pray for poor Colin, he is so oppressed..so rich, making MILLIONS throwing a football around, poor loaf..I know I will be saying an extra prayer for him when I go to bed tonight..I will pray he goes to Sudan..and leaves his millions of dollars behind, ya know, the millions that makes him so darn oppressed
However, I'm a Dodger fan and have been since the Bums won the 1959 World Series.
Nah. I fought for his right to sit there and spin so I’m certain he won’t have a problem with me telling him to injest fecal matter and bark at the moon.
RLTW.
You would give up a part of your country?
He can go to H—E double hockey sticks. What a blankety blank.
To get rid of 100 million deadbeats?
Nah. Just let China or the radical islamists set off dirty nukes off the coasts of San Diego, Los Angeles, and the Gay Area via remote controlled mini-submarines, and that should take care of America's problems.
BWAHAHAHA
Coming from a multiracial multimillionaire who is not living up to potential
Kiss your tattoos now smart guy
Never.
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