Posted on 08/18/2017 5:13:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The National Football League's preseason is underway, and national anthem-hating quarterback Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have an NFL job. One can easily identify the liberal journalists by their anguish over this so-called injustice. You can also identify them by their dishonest arguments.
Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer pulled out a very large straw man on Aug. 17 in a column headlined "Days of Docile Black Athlete Have Ended. Get Used to It." He doubled down in the text, saying: "Sorry for the inconvenience, sports fans, but the days of the docile black athlete are over. This isn't a time to stick to sports. This isn't a time to be afraid because Kaepernick has been blackballed." To argue that Kaepernick's critics want "docile blacks" is character assassination.
Then, Brewer added that the national anthem lasts about two minutes, as does an interview after the game about that anti-American kneeling stunt. He spewed: "If you think that's too much of a distraction from sports -- the ultimate distraction -- you're living an awfully petty life. I'm sorry you didn't get to put extra sprinkles on your ice cream, but there are more important matters."
Brewer surely knows that Kaepernick's antics didn't cause two minutes of liberal concern or conservative outrage. We've had an entire summer of ESPN and other liberal sports pundits like Brewer demanding that Kaepernick somehow has an inalienable right to a job in the NFL after his antics.
Most of these liberals impose their own righteousness about America's "systematic racism" without acknowledging that Kaepernick went beyond this quiet pre-game stance. They ignore that he wore socks in training camp featuring pigs with police hats on them. They ignore that he wore a T-shirt with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on it as he supposedly advocated for freedom of speech.
When challenged by Cuban exile Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald about the T-shirt, Kaepernick proclaimed that communist Cuba was better than America. He said, "One thing that Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system, which we do not do here, even though we're fully capable of doing that."
Salguero called that out as false, as phony as the Castros winning 100 percent of the vote. When he told the quarterback that Castro's regime broke up families (including his own) as they sought to escape, Kaepernick attacked America again. "We do break up families here," he said. "That's what mass incarceration is. That was the foundation of slavery, so our country has been based on that as well as the genocide of Native Americans."
It's not a matter of "extra sprinkles on our ice cream" to smear the police as porcine, racist killers and smear America as founded not on liberty and justice but on slavery and genocide.
But Brewer, that professor of logic, thinks that Kaepernick's complete evisceration of America is somehow what makes this country ... great? He said: "But if America is still America -- beautiful despite some ugly features, slow to evolve but persistent, a compassionate democracy -- history will judge Kaepernick ultimately not as a rogue and defiant objector, but a man ahead of this time who helped spur an important athlete revolution."
What liberal journalists are demanding here is that every famous person in front of a microphone exploit that platform to call for a leftist revolution. Athletes, actors, musicians, reality TV stars and everyone else should always be shilling against the horrid country that America was -- and presently is under the Republicans. "History" (always equated with liberalism) will grade them as heroes ahead of their time.
Correct. At the end of the day we control this outcome with our wallets. We can boycott the NFL, or any corporate entity what wants to play this game.
He looks like a bad imitation of a 1960's black radical.
I keep getting him mixed up with Black Panther Angela Davis.
He just has a better mustache.
If the future of sport is one of brainless athletes calling their fanbase bigoted racists amid showy displays of disrespect for the country, sport doesn’t have much of a future. Which would be a good thing.
Eliminating all paid, professional sport would be one of the best things that could possibly happen in this world.
Former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis -- who supports Kaepernick's message but has been a vocal critic of his approach -- has been involved in some discussions among Baltimore's management about the possibility of signing CK. He has basically said on ESPN that CK is unemployed mainly because he has demonstrated a lack of interest in playing football. Apparently CK has been sitting around waiting for someone to sign him but hasn't been doing much to stay in top shape and improve his game.
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They cease to be multi millionaires when enough of us stop watching, and stop paying high ticket prices.
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Now, if we can only get the pols to stop giving away our taxpayers to the same...
So if some athletes, let’s say, pray after (or before) a game on the field, they would be perfectly fine with that, right? No distraction, no problem, right?
Looks like Kaepernick has successfully made the career transition from professional football player to professional malcontent.
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Remember when identity politics didn’t push it’s ugly snout into every aspect of our lives?
There was a time when we could go to a restaurant, a concert, a football game or walk past a monument a memorial or a historic park without being put upon by bug-eyed raging liberals spewing their hate and venom.
Democrats have torn great holes in the fabric of the nation and our culture by destroying civilty and making every breathing moment about leftist politics.
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IMO, if the Right hadn’t meekly slithered off EVERY time the Left said “BOO!”, you might have a point.
Textbooks rewrite history\bad teachers - poo-poo’d.
Communist professors - “Well, just don’t GO there...”
More of our property & freedoms stolen & given to another - “Compassion & charity”
One abhorring head after another popped up: ‘Tolerance’ turned to ‘acceptance’ turned to COMPULSION, w/o push-back.
No wonder the Left feels the need to press further, who’s going to STOP ‘em? The (R)?? BWAHAhahaha. There’s no more ‘hills’ to cede.
I tried explaining to a liberal that football is entertainment. An entertainer should never disrespect half his audience. I was told it was Colin’s right to do whatever he wanted. I responded that, no, he was under contract to the team and represented the team while in uniform and he would most likely be out of a job. As usual, I had to stop speaking when the liberal started yelling. (I won’t change his mind and it’s not worth a fight.)
I used to listen to comedians. Hey comedians, here’s some free advice related to the above. When your audience applauds instead of laughing, what you said isn’t funny. Some of your audience agrees with you, but you aren’t funny. What you just did was brand yourself as a 40% comedian as the rest of the audience will probably never listen to you, buy a ticket or a CD again. You have relegated yourself to being a B lister for the rest of your career.
At what point will his skanky broad see him for the loser he is, and drop him like the fans have? She probably shopped for the socks and tee shirt, and ordered him to wear them. He’s a gutless, spineless dupe.
Only the Left makes ‘heroes’ out of LOSERS...................
If so, the "Days of White Fans Buying Tickets" is sure to follow. Get used to it.
Very well said and excellent points. All of it.
If far-left San Francisco doesn’t want him, it’s hard to imagine what city would. Baltimore?
If black athletes embrace this belief, the days of multi-million dollar contracts are over. Owners won't pay much if the fans stay home and TV ratings plunge.
When is it EVER wrong to humbly honor our Creator. Don’t try to equate an honorable player showing gratitude to God, with Klunkerdick pizzing on our flag, “Old Glory”; and our National Anthem. They are polar opposites.
I wouldn’t doubt it that he and the majority of his followers would pass the test.
another example of the little head controlling the big head.....lol
Yep, more important than football, which will no longer distract me from "more important things".
"...history will judge Kaepernick ultimately not as a rogue and defiant objector, but a man ahead of this time who helped spur an important athlete revolution."
Yep, he will be known as the man who hastened the demise of a major sport.
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