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.
Showboating African celebs are just not selling like they once did. . Perhaps homowood can make a first run movie on their oppression, starring OJ Simpson.
The skanky broad will stick around until she drains his savings. Kaepernick will soon be broke and lookng for a job at UC Santa Cruz with Angela Davis.
Good post Vlad.
And our collective response to the NFL is our effort to send a message to the owners that pay the bill.
Do not let your players, hired to put on a sporting event, turn the event into a forum for their individual political posturing
We vote with our feet and our money. If you want my money, give me something that moves me.
‘Docile black athlete?!?’
docile and black are actually antonyms, if one wishes to pull the wool away...
‘It’s all about getting some trim’
judging from that photo above, a little ‘trim’ would be beneficial...
‘Eliminating all paid, professional sport would be one of the best things that could possibly happen in this world.’
well, fine, then you be the one to go and tell the pro athletes that...
How about the days of the docile sports fan, you know, the folks that buy the tickets simply say, 'no more'.
And while we're at it, How about the NFL and NBA reflecting the population percentage?
Sports journalists are the biggest concentration of Gamma-Cucks to be found.
No kidding. Everything is Black v White.
The Panthers drafted a running back, Christian McCaffery.
He is really good.
What was my first thought?
A WHITE running back ! Can't think of another that actually runs, not just block.
A few years ago that would not have entered my mind but today I've been conditioned to see that.
No, just an ignorant jackass.
Yes. And as a witty friend once stated while discussing a mutual acquaintance who we agreed was a real pain, “I don’t wish him any bad luck, but if he has some I wouldn’t mind hearing about it.”
He would have a job if he didn’t freaking suck.
You can be a distraction and get a job, and you can suck and get a job. But you can’t be a distraction AND suck.
Exactly. His mouth writes checks his arm can’t cash.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.