Kaepernick

IMO...

Not a big deal and so what...

Hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, IMO he's in no place right now in his career to be a role-model/spokesman.

Hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, IMO he's in no place right now in his career to be a role-model/spokesman.

why should we have to stand for some bullshit symbolism?

Jackie Robinson, Ali, John Carlos and others African Americans have done the same and still this country is gunning down African Americans.

Jackie Robinson, Ali, John Carlos and others African Americans have done the same and still this country is gunning down African Americans.

“we need to be wary of enforced cultural conformity and the use of a ballgame to impose political correctness on a captive audience.”

After all the men and women who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms in wars and peace to make this country so great.

...they were all written before music got good.

...they were all written before music got good.



I am now officially irate. QITNL!! Really?! OH MY GOD.

I have one word for you man, one word:

Antonio Vivaldi;

Wolfgang Mozart;

Antonin Dvorak.

OK, it's a long one word. But all are from before 1814 ;)

Anti-abolitionist[edit]
A slave-owner himself,[20] Key used his position as U.S. Attorney to suppress abolitionists. In 1833, Key secured a grand jury indictment against Benjamin Lundy, editor of the anti-slavery publication, the Genius of Universal Emancipation, and his printer, William Greer, for libel after Lundy published an article that declared, "There is neither mercy nor justice for colored people in this district [of Columbia]". Lundy's article, Key said in the indictment, "was intended to injure, oppress, aggrieve, and vilify the good name, fame, credit & reputation of the Magistrates and constables" of Washington. Lundy left town rather than face trial; Greer was acquitted.[21]

In August 1836, Key agreed to prosecute botanist and doctor Reuben Crandall, brother of controversial Connecticut school teacher Prudence Crandall, who had recently moved to the national capital. Key secured an indictment for "seditious libel" after two marshals (who operated as slave catchers in their off hours) found Crandall had a trunk full of anti-slavery publications in his Georgetown residence, five days after the Snow Riot, caused by rumors that a mentally ill slave had attempted to kill an elderly white woman. In an April 1837 trial that attracted nationwide attention, Key charged that Crandall's actions instigated slaves to rebel. Crandall's attorneys acknowledged he opposed slavery, but denied any intent or actions to encourage rebellion. Key, in his final address to the jury said:

"Are you willing, gentlemen, to abandon your country, to permit it to be taken from you, and occupied by the abolitionist, according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with the negro? Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist, who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief?"

A jury acquitted Crandall.[22][23]

This defeat, as well as family tragedies in 1835, diminished Key's political ambition. He resigned as district attorney in 1840. He remained a staunch proponent of African colonization and a strong critic of the antislavery movement until his death.[24]

...it's sad that Kap sees this as a "country that oppresses black people", while I see it as a country that passed the Civil Rights act of 1964 and elected a black person as president twice, but still has a lot of work to complete due to racist individuals and institutions.

CK is spoiled little brat. Instead doing something honorable... something to move the conversation forward... he acts like a whiny d#@&%ebag."

There is so much about our country that is good and great. And a lot of that is unique to humankind and unique in human history.

Yes, but the U.S.A. is still very racist . . . you all need to get out and see for yourselves.

What if 50,000 people in a stadium voiced an opinion he should stand up or get out?

Is he a whore?

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Harrison apologizes to Kaepernick, did not know he was black

If I had some hot black lives matter pussy to impress I would sit down too .

$16m isn't chump change...

I support his first amendment rights, but why is he now just becoming interested in black lives. Why wasn't he speaking out years ago?

Here I tell you what - I'm literally doing a Doctorate course as we speak
I have access to every data base you can imagine
Here's just one study I clicked on - I need to write preventive health teaching and policy for a neighborhood in Balitmore.
Maybe you can help me ?

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

"San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick believes that the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton should be in prison. “We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate,” he said. “That doesn’t make sense to me because if that was any other person you’d be in prison.” Kaepernick shared his thoughts about the presidential election while trying to explain his decision to sit during the national anthem to protest the United States.

“So, what is this country really standing for?” he asked after bringing up Clinton’s behavior in political office."

And I still want to know - where is Canada?

Just stand up for a couple of minutes is all it takes.

Pretty simple.

Kaepernick said he would donate the first $1 million he earned this season to organizations that work with the community.

"I am planning to take it a step further, I'm currently working with organizations to be involved, and making sure I'm actively in these communities, as well as donating the first million dollars I make this year to different organizations to help these communities and help these people," he said.

Kaepernick added: "I've been very blessed to be in this position and make the kind of money I do, and I have to help these people. I have to help these communities. It's not right that they're not put in the position to succeed, or given the opportunities to succeed."

To call this man a loser, as at least one poster has, is not very Christian. Has he no right to voice his opinion?

on the one hand there is no question that systemic racism and white supremacy still exists in the us of a... on the other hand to suggest that that is the only or even a majority of the issue within black communities at this point in history [as from my relatively little informed viewpoint seems to sometimes be suggested by spokespeople within the blm movement] sems to me to be potentially rooted in too much externally directed and divisive blaming rather than being balanced with the both internal and external communicative solution building that is going to be required if the usa is to heal from its past [and sometimes present]... at the end of the day though, that is only a relatively ill-informed outsiders irrelevant two bits.

Pretty hard to judge anyone in this world without walking a mile in their shoes...IMHO

not that I care, but the dude doesn't look black. I mean, less black than Obama, whose mother is full-on white.

A member of the 2015 World Cup-winning U.S. women’s soccer team is standing, or rather kneeling, in support of Colin Kaepernick.

On Sunday night, Megan Rapinoe took a knee while the national anthem played ahead of a game between the Seattle Reign, where Rapinoe is a star midfielder, and the Chicago Red Stars.

And the 31-year-old said after the game that she will continue to kneel going forward as a “nod to” the 49ers quarterback, according to NWSL reporter John Halloran.

I liked watching kaepernick when he was the starting QB...I liked his line drive passes and his 15 yard dashes...I respect him for standing up for the less fortunate and don't buy into the haters who think he's a terrorist...Squiddly..

Bigotry in America is very active...

Looks like it might even be growing...

I don't know what Kaepernick's father's specific make-up is, but since most black Americans have a substantial amount of European ancestry

you should listen to what other people think and try to have some empathy for people of different backgrounds.

For this little rotten punk to come out this way now and blame America for it's race problems

Explain how.

The insistence that white America has that tens of millions of non-white Americans are incorrectly articulating their experience living in our country is a defensive mass delusion. We can't even respect our fellow countrymen enough to acknowledge that maybe our personal experience isn't the universal American experience.

Seriously?

DMT

Most of my friends and coworkers are white and Asian and mixed race ....I don't even know what race some of my coworkers are. They all have different opinions and ideas about race and just about everything else. Maybe there are places where white people are all alike but I have not seen it where I have lived. I think phrases like "white America" or "black America" don't really say anything useful and is even a bit racist because it assumes that all people in a race think alike, which I know they don't.

Is that a picture of you in your avatar?

And Supertopo is a bastion of pasty middle aged white dudes, especially in the political threads, and "I have a black friend who thinks" or "look here is a video of a black person who agrees with me therefore this is ok" posts abound. I was just trying to parse out if your avatar was ironic, representative or just a "look here is a picture of a black person with a Trump hat so Trump can't be racist" sort of thing.

It's hard to ever forgive for the DAMAGE he's doing

If he really had any balls, he'd donate his game check to something useful.

Chaz, good point

Why in the hell do they play the stupid National Anthem before these games in the first place.

When would you hear the national anthem if it wasn't played at a ball game...?

Why in the hell do they play the stupid National Anthem before these games in the first place.

That's the problem, not if you sit or stand.

I don't want to hear it at a game with my beer in my hand, I'm there to get away from the usual BS

It must suck to find something to be miserable about everywhere you look

What if you agree with what KC's saying, but you think he can chose a better time and place?

Except they are not at risk "every time" they interact with the police.