Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know

[trueprada]

Needs repeating: decades from now, Colin Kaepernick will be seen as one of the great civil rights pioneers of our time.

 

[Ingenious Bastard]

Hov rocking a Kaep Jersey on SNL tonight for the culture


I've never been a Jersey guy, but I need to find a cool shirt.

 

[AL Andretti]

A lot of Kaep shirts on eBay and Amazon.

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

This dude should play Kap in the biopic. Looks like him.

 

[hand2handking]

i think its gonna be this guy

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

^Can't even argue with that.

Whitewashing in Hollywood

 

[Fresh Like Will]

in fairness, it is their livelihood--financial security beyond our comprehension--and we can't "ask" them to do that...it's something that they have to decide is worth the potential price tag to them.

that's why Ali is still The Champ to this day.

I get that 100%. If they aren't going to do or say anything substantive, then they should just go back to doing nothing like before. It's basically helping "in spirit" and not actually doing anything other than trying to get positive PR. The original message keeps getting lost or replaced by these weak symbolic half steps. You're 1000% right about Ali. He really was the champ.

 

[SC kid]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

This dude should play Kap in the biopic. Looks like him.

Other being a lightskinned black man, with black hair, they look NOTHING alike.

Thanks for telling us you believe all black people look like

 

[Sir San Diego]

Other being a lightskinned black man, with black hair, they look NOTHING alike.

Thanks for telling us you believe all black people look like

I was looking at that **** confused like a mother ****er.

 

[addict4sneakers]

at nascar telling their drivers they have to stand for the anthem.

Come on buddy.

 

[Fresh Like Will]

at nascar telling their drivers they have to stand for the anthem.

Come on buddy.

Nascar is one of the last sports I think would ever have to worry about that.

 

[2 RAWW]

Hov rocking a Kaep Jersey on SNL tonight for the culture


I've never been a Jersey guy, but I need to find a cool shirt.

I just copped this one - #ImWithKap

 

[noblekane]

kaeps mom is white so i can see them sprucing up that white guy to play him

but the guy gotholes posted like what the hell??? looks nothing like kaep

 

[trueprada]

"We're protesting the protests. We'd already bought tickets, this is the last game I'm coming to." Navy veteran Jim Johnson (2nd from R).

 

[hand2handking]

Soccer players should copy NFL protest against racism, says Thuram

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...test-against-racism-says-thuram-idUSKCN1C42KR

Soccer players should copy NFL protest against racism, says Thuram

Philip O'Connor
3 MIN READ

FILE PHOTO: Former French soccer player Lilian Thuram attends an inauguration ceremony of a renovated football stadium in the West bank town of Al-Bireh near Ramallah April 14, 2011. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - European soccer players should copy American footballers by “taking a knee” during national anthems to protest against racism, former World Cup winner Lilian Thuram said on Friday.

In a gesture initiated last season by then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, several NFL players have routinely knelt on one knee during the playing of the American anthem.

It is intended to call attention to what the protesting players see as a pattern of racism in the treatment of African-Americans by U.S. police.

“I would love it if soccer players did it (took a knee),” Thuram told Reuters.

”I think it would be fascinating to see that, and not just black players either...

“I hope that this resistance movement will spread itself outside the USA and that more people, regardless of skin color, follow in their footsteps to create a better society,” the 45-year-old Frenchman added.

The issue of taking a knee was magnified earlier this month when U.S. President Donald Trump said any NFL player who protested during the anthem was a “son of a bytch” who should be fired.

Unlike in the NFL, national anthems are not routinely played before soccer matches in Europe’s major leagues and are usually only heard at international fixtures.

Thuram, a former Monaco, Parma, Juventus and Barcelona defender who won the World Cup with France in 1998, was speaking in the multicultural Stockholm suburb of Tensta, where he spent several hours discussing race and society with local journalism students.

“We are in Sweden, and you are asking me about the situation in the USA -- that means that it has become a question in Sweden. That’s why it is so important that there are people who take up injustices and make them visible,” he said.

“If you make injustice visible, it comes into the spotlight, and if it is in focus then one must start to question what is happening. To solve a problem, you have to bring it into the open.”

Thuram said he would like to see more white NFL players taking part in the protest.

“It’s sad not to do it. It would be much stronger (if everyone did it). There are many who think, ‘I don’t care about this’, that they are not affected by the issue,” he said.

Thuram hopes that the NFL protest will force a change in attitudes.

“That day when vast amounts of people take a knee, people will be forced to think about these issues,” he said.

 

[Belgium]

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...erry-jones-four-times-asking-him-not-to-kneel
Trump called Cowboys' Jerry Jones four times about anthem protests: report

President Trump last Monday reportedly called Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones four times imploring him not to let his team kneel during the national anthem.

The president repeatedly called Jones while the owner stood in the locker room before the Monday night football game against the Arizona Cardinals, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com.

Trump's apparent persistence didn't pay off. Jones and the entire Cowboys team briefly knelt before the national anthem began. The team then stood as the anthem was sung.



The Dallas Cowboys were among several teams that demonstrated during the weekend.

Jones, who according to CNN donated $1 million to President Trump’s inaugural committee, joined several other NFL owners who stood or knelt with their teams after Trump lasted out at athletes who don’t honor the anthem.

The protests came in response to comments Trump made during a rally in Alabama last month, in which he called on kneeling players to be fired. The president was met with fierce backlash from NFL players, coaches and executives over the weekend, leading to a wave of kneels or other forms of protest against his attacks.

 

[whywesteppin]

lol what a petty bum.

 

[trueprada]

 

[trueprada]

NFL-boycotting restaurant owner says business is booming

http://on-ajc.com/2yiHY5Q

 

[marcielago]

Hov rocking a Kaep Jersey on SNL tonight for the culture


I've never been a Jersey guy, but I need to find a cool shirt.

 

[marcielago]

The irony. Pretty sure according to the flag code that whole family is disrespecting the flag

 

[wallyhopp]

You know what's crazy before this? People would be on their phones during the anthem or running to their seat, or at the urinal, or not paying attention with their hat still on. Most just stood people watching without a care for what was happening 20 plus years worth of disgrace ( around 9/11 people seemed to care again) but decades of just utter disregard should have everyone more upset than what they perceive as the worst thing ever now. The NFL paid the dod millions and was caught doing shady stuff trying to force all of this onto us. But they aren't the bad guys here?

 

[trueprada]

 

[sfc415]

Wow....