LOOK: Susan Sarandon joins more than 1,000 at Kaepernick rally at NFL offices

CBS Sports ^ | August 24, 2017 | Will Brinson

[Zakeet]

The fury surrounding the employment status of Colin Kaepernick has been taken to a new level, reaching full-blown froth on Wednesday night in the form of a rally at NFL headquarters attended by thousands to protest Kaepernick being unsigned by a team.

[Snip]

According to Tim Rohan of TheMMQB.com, the group of activists who organized the rally -- The People's Consortium for Human and Civil Rights, led by president Reverend Stephen Green -- had three demands of the NFL.

1. That the NFL institute a policy to protect players' rights to have freedom of speech, so they can kneel, raise a fist or express opinions on social issues, if they wish.

2. That the NFL establish a review board to, Green says, "examine issues of social injustice." As Tamika Mallory, a social activist and co-organizer of the 2017 Women's March, put it in her speech, "The NFL, just like the NYPD, cannot police itself. Any organization that is only being looked at from within is a failing organization. There must be a unit of people internally and externally that look at racial and cultural sensitivity issues within the NFL."

3. And that the NFL develop some sort of program to "reinvest into the communities in which they serve, where there are high rates of unemployment, high rates of mass incarceration. To re-invest those funds into the community," Green says.

Typically speaking, the noise surrounding an issue like this dies out once the games start being played. But this is not a typical situation: Kap doesn't have a job, which means with each week that passes and each horrific quarterback performance that we watch unfold, the noise could get louder.

[JBW1949]

She probably thinks “football” is kicking a round, black and white ball all over a field with people chasing it and scoring once every 45-50 minutes...

[Red Badger]

One of those two people is dead...................

[Alberta's Child]

Normal people don't stage demonstrations over silly issues like this.

We just stay home.

We turn the TV off, too.

[Mr. K]

OK so tell us, which team do you insist that he play on?

[SaxxonWoods]

I remember when these people hated the NFL because, violence!

Boycott away bitches, you never watched anyway.

K isn’t playing because he can’t compete. If he was more skilled he’d be signed.

The Seahawks have players who won’t stand for the anthem, and they are still on the team. That’s because they can actually play the game at a high skill level.

[MAGA2017]

He can join the CFL and not have to stand for the Star Spangled Banner.

[rktman]

WTH? Shouldn’t ‘saranwrap’ be gearing up for Burning Man? I believe it’s starts this weekend. There are plenty of burners in town.

[Fightin Whitey]

What’s Popeye doing back there behind the younger woman?

[The Louiswu]

1000? That’s all? The Packers brought in 65,000 to their Family Night scrimmage. Get a life SS

[bboop]

Who’s the picture of??

[samantha]

OMG wear a bra you saggy old commie twit.

[Mr. K]

I hope he saved some of his money

He will get no endorsement deals, nothing.

Wasn’t their ANYONE around him telling him to knock it off?

Or is he just that stupid and pig-headed? His agent was either complicit (in which he should be fired by anyone else he represents) or incredibly stupid (in which case he should be fired by anyone else he represents) or he was SCREAMING AT HIM to knock it off (in which case he should have dropped CK as a client)

[Mr. K]

Dammit, Janet- don’t you own a bra?

[SaxxonWoods]

Oh, and I boycott most of the NFL because it’s become a bore.

Nothing but commercials, crappy announcers talking about everything except the game, referees throwing flags and standing around waiting for replay decisions.

There’s virtually nothing left to watch.

[17th Miss Regt]

Just say that he is currently working as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. The libs will be happy and they will never figure out what it really means when we say he is UN-employed!

[Old Grumpy]

Is that the world’s most interesting man - behind Commie Susan?

[Nifster]

She doesn’t even know who he is

[Kozy]

The NFL should pull their games from ESPN since it is racist. ESPN fired an announcer because he is Asian. Horrible, just horrible.

[Jim Noble]

“There’s a fury surrounding his employment status”

Really?

I don’t know anybody who gives a f***, even counting only people who have heard of the guy.

[NormsRevenge]

Thelma and Louise are on the road again..
and lookey who’s in the back seat this time..

Kaepy the Human Seal..
‘Protector’ of Human Rights