Posted on 08/27/2016 5:52:57 PM PDT by drewh
SANTA CLARA — Colin Kaepernick didn’t do much to warrant headlines with his performance on the field Friday, but he’s certainly in for his fair share of scrutiny after he sat through the national anthem before his preseason debut against the Packers.
Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com was first to report Kaepernick didn’t stand for the national anthem and got the 49ers to issue a statement on the matter. The statement from the 49ers to PFT:
“The national anthem is and always will be a special part of the pre-game ceremony. It is an opportunity to honor our country and reflect on the great liberties we are afforded as its citizens. In respecting such American principles as freedom of religion and freedom of expression, we recognize the right of an individual to choose to participate, or not, in our celebration of the national anthem.”
Kaepernick has used his social media profiles to showcase his political beliefs but has never before made a statement of this magnitude. It will be interesting to see how the 49ers and/or Kaepernick address this further.
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He doesn’t “look American” to me...I hope he knows how little regard real Americans have for him and what/who he represents. He is just an unassimilated POS employed in the bread-and-circuses industry.
Pathetic statement. If you can’t stand and be respectful, keep your butt in the Locker Room until the National Anthem is played. Better yet get your MILLION $$ butt out of NFL or other sports.
How much of that has he given or used to better the lives of blacks in ghettos? He really cares ... about himself.
Normally I agree with you but he was raised by whites who chose him and he spits on that to be anti American
This is America, we have a Flag, We have a Pledge of Alliance, We have a National Anthem, and if your living in America, then get off your sanctimonious ass and do what Americans do!!!
If you can’t, get the hell out and don’t let the door hit you on the way out!!!”””
This ‘athlete’ is half white—half black & from a one night stand.
He was adopted by loving family & raised in a very nice manner. He got a college education at U Nevada Reno.
I didn’t know he had ‘converted to Islam’ this past summer.
I think he should quit his contract & let a person who really cares about America & his team to have the job.
“...and then the kid later on despises the white half and identifies with his/her black half...and then grows up to be pResident!”
Fixed it. :)
Yes...I agree, 100%. He’s overlooking the blessings he’s been given.
He was given up by both a white and black bio parent....was my counterpoint (to the poster).
He is just ungrateful even to the white mother who did not choose abortion. He needs to have a long chat with some who live so poorly in Africa. What has he personally done to better any life black or white?
He is just ungrateful even to the white mother who did not choose abortion. He needs to have a long chat with some who live so poorly in Africa. What has he personally done to better any life black or white?
The last pre-season game is September 1 when the niners play San Diego. I will watch just to see if the chargers can show number 7 what real oppression is really like.
If the niners hang on to him after the pre-season then all the more to keep the niners off TV.
Looks like Colin’s gone Full Muzzie.
The idiot lives in a country run by a black president. He’s a freaking millionaire. What a pathetic clown.
He wants to show how “gangsta” he can be.
Reminds me of another NFL player. Wildly-successful, he gets involved in stealing an SUV.
Brilliant!!!
I think that is the family that adopted him.
Fortunately, she dropped dead two days before the election. Yeah, that woman that had his birth certificate in her apartment in Hawaii.
Just an amazing coincidence, no doubt.
That was quite coincidental, wasn't it?
People think that things like this drop down the memory hole (and for most people, they do, if they even considered it strange at the time), but fortunately, we have places like FR to remind each other of things like this
Hope so...
I was just thinking about that, earlier, this morning. How 0zika visits Granny (who had suddenly become ill, after appearing healthier than ILLary looks, today)....0zika visits....and, just like that....she was gone.
Yep.
Lotsa amazing coincidences with Obammy.
Just like the 3 guys connected to Hillary and the DNC that have suddenly dropped dead in the last 60 days or so.
Guy 1: Weights killed him.
Guy 2: Dead in a stairwell.
Guy 3: Dropped dead of a heart attack.
All just amazing coincidences.
Lotsa amazing coincidences. Shoot, Loretta Fuddy lasted 3 weeks after she “certified” his “birth certificate”.
And then, more than a couple O supporters who departed not long after jumping on board.
Bernie Mac, the woman at the restaurant that met him, gushing how she always wanted to meet him (dropped the next day).
My kids don’t believe me. I tell them that the list of people involved with the Clintons who died under mysterious circumstances is incredibly long. They honestly think I hate Dems so much that I am making it up. Not true.
There used to be Democrats who actually loved the country. (Who was it who said, “You Lie!” to Obama not long ago? From a Southern state?)
I lived through that. This stuff needs to be written down in a history book.
And it continues to this day. Wasn’t an aide shot though, in a mugging? Just a couple of months ago?
We are truly living in a banana republic. The Founders must be turning over in their graves.
I’ll
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