Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know

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Add Urban Meyer’s wife Shelley to the list of people who have no love for Colin Kaepernick.

After news that Kaepernick, whose national anthem protest has spread around the sports world, had filed a grievance against the NFL citing collusion as the reason why he has not been signed by a team, the wife of the Ohio State head coach took to Twitter to slam the former NFL quarterback.

What-ever. He made his choices.

— Shelley Meyer (@spinnershells) October 16, 2017
Meyer tweeted, “What-ever. He made his choices” and followed that by replying to a tweet that from someone who would prefer Tim Tebow, her husband’s former star recruit at the University of Florida, by saying, “A million times. No comparison at all!!!”

And while Tebow played himself out of the league with a suspect passing arm, Kaepernick played in a Super Bowl and led the 49ers to two NFC Championship games.

Meyer received responses from many including the free agents quarterback’s mom, Teresa Kaepernick who said, “Her flip remark speaks volumes on where she stands on civil rights issues.” One Twitter user, @BabyGapGlobal responded by tweeting “Is this how the Meyer’s feel about Aaron Hernandez too?”

Hernandez, who was convicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd and then later committed suicide in prison, played for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida.

Kaepernick is moving forward with his collusion case, despite his name being thrown around as a possible replacement for the Packers, as the former Niners QB grew up outside Milwaukee, Wisc
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deleted that account with the swiftness





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LeBron James Is the Greatest Living Athlete (and Here's Why)

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LeBron James has been basketball's best player for the better part of 14 years. But it's his work off the court—in business, in movies, and increasingly in politics—that will define the depth of his greatness. We tailed the king from L.A. to New York to Toronto and back again, talking LeBron Inc., MJ, Cleveland, race, and the man we'd come to know simply as "U bum."

Ten days before Donald Trump took on Colin Kaepernick and the NFL and Stephen Curry and the NBA, and before LeBron James, one of the most famous and popular humans in America, called the president of the United States a "bum" on Twitter, I asked him if he thought his adversarial stance against Trump might end up being for him what the Vietnam War was for Muhammad Ali.
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It's the Ali Test. It's a people's-champ-ness one needs. It's the ability to turn fans into followers and followers into consequential action. To be able to legitimately have an effect on the way people live in the world, as corny as it sounds. And LeBron, more than any other living athlete on earth, has that in him. The fact that he's putting over a thousand kids through college is commendable. But when assessing his imprint and the potential of his reach, it seems relatively small. Like a 30-point game. He's reaching for something bigger. Something that most athletes eschew and that LeBron himself wasn't always inclined to do. It's not like he was out there his rookie season stumping for candidates. But things have changed. It's a different world now. Which is why I figured I'd test out the upper limit of his ambition.


Would you ever want to be president?

"Of the United States?" He pauses. "Nah."

That didn't seem like a confident answer.

"I say no because of always having to be on someone else's time. From the outside looking in, it seems like the president always has to be there—gotta be there. You really don't have much 'me time.' I enjoy my 'me time.' The positive that I see from being the president… Well, not with the president we have right now, because there's no positive with him, but the positive that I've seen is being able to inspire. Your word has command to it. If you're speaking with a knowledgeable, caring, loving, passionate voice, then you can give the people of America and all over the world hope."

Why is being known for speaking up on social issues so important to you?

"I don't do it to get praise or to be in an article. I do it because it's my responsibility. It's my responsibility."

Is it anyone in your position's responsibility? Or is it your responsibility?

"Nah, it's my responsibility. I believe that I was put here for a higher cause. We have people, not only today but over the course of time, that have been in the higher positions that chose to do it and chose not to do it."

But do you think it's wrong not to speak up if you have the platform?

"I don't think it's right or wrong. If it's in you, and if it's authentic, then do it. If it's some fake ****, then the people, the kids, they're going to notice it. They know."

W. E. B. Du Bois talks about how a black person will always feel his "two-ness" in America. You're a very extreme example of that. On the one hand, you're the savior of Ohio. It's nearly impossible to find someone in Ohio who doesn't worship you. But it also has its share of racism. Is that difficult when something happens in your backyard?

"It's heavy when a situation occurs either with myself or with someone in a different city, i.e., Trayvon, Mike Brown. I have to go home and talk to my 13- and 10-year-old sons, even my 2-year-old daughter, about what it means to grow up being an African-American in America. Because no matter how great you become in life, no matter how wealthy you become, how people worship you, or what you do, if you are an African-American man or African-American woman, you will always be that."

The two-ness.

"True colors will show, and it showed for me during the playoffs, where my house in Brentwood, California, one of the fukking best neighborhoods in America, was vandalized with, you know, the N-word. And that **** puts it all back into perspective. So do I use my energy toward that? Or do I now shed a light on how I can use this negative to turn into a positive, because so many people are looking for what I'm going to say. I had a conversation with my kids. I let them know this is what it is, this is how it's going to be. When it's time for y'all to fly, you'll have to understand that. When y'all go out in public and y'all start driving or y'all start moving around, be respectful to cops, as much as you can. When you get pulled over, call your mom or dad, put it on speakerphone, and put your phone underneath the seat. But be respectful the whole time."

Can a state that elected Donald Trump also love LeBron James? Is that actually possible?

"That's a great question. I think, um, they can love what LeBron James does. Do they know what LeBron James completely represents? I don't think so. So those people may love the way I play the game of basketball, because they might have some grandkids, you know, they might have a son or a daughter or a niece that no matter what they're talking about, the kids are like, 'LeBron is LeBron. And I don't give a damn what you talking about. I love him.' So they don't have a choice liking me. But at the end of the day, these people are gonna resort back to who they are. So do I have a definite answer to that? My state definitely voted for Donald Trump, the state that I grew up in. And I think I can sit here and say that I have a lot of fans in that state, too. It's unfortunate."

The way LeBron speaks on race threads a very fine needle. It's healing and inclusive while also being extremely real. He's the anti-conformist athlete. From tweets and Instagram posts about police brutality to the way he's taken control of his career—off the court and on the court. The way he chose to leave Cleveland and then chose to come back. The way he broke the norms of free agency in the process. He's liberated every NBA player from now to eternity. But at the time, in the summer of 2010, he was bludgeoned for it—by media, by fans, and, perhaps most controversially, by Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, who published an open letter to the city of Cleveland, effectively calling LeBron a narcissist and a traitor. It had nothing to do with business or sport, for that matter. Some argued that it read like he thought he owned more than just the team—like he owned LeBron.

Did you feel like Dan Gilbert's letter was racial?

"Um, I did. I did. It was another conversation I had to have with my kids. It was unfortunate, because I believed in my heart that I had gave that city and that owner, at that point in time, everything that I had. Unfortunately, I felt like, at that point in time, as an organization, we could not bring in enough talent to help us get to what my vision was. A lot of people say they want to win, but they really don't know how hard it takes, or a lot of people don't have the vision. So, you know, I don't really like to go back on that letter, but it pops in my head a few times here, a few times there. I mean, it's just human nature. I think that had a lot to do with race at that time, too, and that was another opportunity for me to kind of just sit back and say, 'Okay, well, how can we get better? How can we get better? How can I get better?' And if it happens again, then you're able to have an even more positive outlook on it. It wasn't the notion of I wanted to do it my way. It was the notion of I'm gonna play this game, and I'm gonna prepare myself so damn hard that when I decide to do something off the court, I want to be able to do it because I've paid my dues."


What does LeBron James owe the city of Cleveland?

"LeBron James owes nobody anything. Nobody. When my mother told me I don't owe her anything, from that point in time, I don't owe anybody anything. But what I will give to the city of Cleveland is passion, commitment, and inspiration. As long as I put that jersey on, that's what I represent. That's why I'm there—to inspire that city. But I don't owe anybody anything."



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were at least one of the security guards black? The lighting was pretty bad but :lol: if so, because they let my mans speak before quietly being like "sir, sir"

they knew he had a point

JJ gonna do whats best for Jerry, though
Kneel with the camera in my face
Tell the players they have to stand up or will not play
Oh they saying I got plantation mentality?? Well I'll listen to this black dude spew stuff at me as I dramatically walk by and then stop and listen.

Wouldn't be surprised if that was all staged by the man. World is at your fingertips when we talkin billions.
I mean how did this one dude get in, feet away from JJ talking to him, demanding answers like that? and no one really trippin?

It's embarrassing to say I'm a cowboys fan too

and yeah I think everything is a ploy.
 
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dhart48 said:
were at least one of the security guards black? The lighting was pretty bad but :lol: if so, because they let my mans speak before quietly being like "sir, sir"

they knew he had a point

JJ gonna do whats best for Jerry, though
Kneel with the camera in my face
Tell the players they have to stand up or will not play
Oh they saying I got plantation mentality?? Well I'll listen to this black dude spew stuff at me as I dramatically walk by and then stop and listen.

Wouldn't be surprised if that was all staged by the man. World is at your fingertips when we talkin billions.
I mean how did this one dude get in, feet away from JJ talking to him, demanding answers like that? and no one really trippin?

It's embarrassing to say I'm a cowboys fan too

and yeah I think everything is a ploy.
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I feel your pain...we're seeing the other side of his master marketing skills now. I don't even feel right calling myself that at the moment.
 
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