Posted on 04/22/2018 11:01:09 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Amnesty International has given Colin Kaepernick its top human rights award for his public opposition to racial injustice. The former San Franciso 49ers quarterback is Amnesty's 2018 Ambassador of Conscience
Accepting the award in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, Kaepernick said he shares it "with all of the countless people throughout the world combating the human rights violations of police officers."
"Kaepernick launched a massive controversy in 2016 for kneeling while the national anthem was played to protest police brutality. When other players joined him, President Trump called on team owners to fire them.
"San Francisco released Kaepernick and he hasn't been signed by any other team.
"Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty says the "vitriol" Kaepernick's peaceful protest evoked from people in power makes his "commitment all the more remarkable."
The Associated Press reports:
"In Kaepernick's acceptance speech, the award-winner described police killings of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States as lawful lynchings.
"Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation — the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex," Kaepernick said.
"How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the people living there?" he said at Saturday's award ceremony."
Previous award recipients include anti-Apartheid campaigner and South African President Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who campaigned for girls' right to education even after surviving being shot by Taliban militants.
They are taking their irrelevance to a whole new level!
So....he will be their Poobah of Publicity.
Look, the guy is out of work....likely spent most of his NFL money, and is in need of some new profession to cover his living expenses. This fake ambassador ‘gig’ will probably pay $100k a year, with some traveling money. He has literally nothing else to fall back upon. He can’t even get hired by ESPN as a desk jockey.
To quote Dana Carvey’s Church Lady: Well, isn’t that special?
Unconscionable, they mean.
Cue the violins. Maybe he should stop being such a self-loathing White guy, and hanging out with and getting talking points from psychotic Mohammadan trash like Linda Sarsour.
Amsterdam has one of the worse human trafficking records, with its Red Light district and Live Sex shows. Kaepernick is nothing but an assclown!!!
How much money did he receive? Will it be more that the NFL contract he hasn’t got?
If Kaepernick had a conscience, he would get down on both knees, be grateful he was born in America and beg our forgiveness.
The only award this career t*rd deserves is a swift kick in the *ss. Then back to the mediocrity and obscurity he so very much deserves.
What’s Amnesty International going to do for your NFL career, Colin? Maybe AI has a position for you....kneeling.
The drug gang culture, that has deep roots in the Black Culture, is deflecting attention from their destructive activities by shifting blame on those protecting the rule of law. Those who benefit the most, exploits the Black Culture with the myths of racism and the propaganda from the Cultural Marxists. Their aim is to eliminate the enforcement function of the police. Without the rule of law the commerce of illegal drugs can exist unrestricted.
It’s about the power of money and how many pockets can be lined to shield criminal behavior. The amount of money the illegal drug industry possesses can turn a church choir into a gang of butchers, Catholic bishops into partners in crime, mothers into whores, and the likes of Kaepernick into tools of manipulation. The image of him with that caricature afro is a dog whistle for those who sentimentalize the myths of the 60s. It’s Black Power, as it has been from the beginning, over law and order.
I wonder how much money, under the table, Kaepernick is getting from the likes of “El Contador“ to tie our law enforcement system’s hands behind their backs?
I seriously hope he is mugged by his repressed minority and maybe encounters some not-so-serious lead poisoning so we can observe him evolving on his topic.
Amnesty International consists of a bunch of left wing socialists cowards who love to perpetuate lies and propaganda.
As soon as he starts talking about being black, his mid-western “twang” (white) of an accent changes to sounding like that of the typical American urban black. The Obamas do the same thing. Even Hillary tried it with hilarious results.
As my granpappy used to say “If you don’t like America, there’s a boat leaving every day”.
Well, the boy’s gots to make a livin’ somehow.
He’ll soon be up for a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s that kind of world now.
If the media quit giving attention to that loser, Kaepernick would fade away to the dust bins of “nothing”. Drop the coverage already.
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