Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know

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[AL Andretti]

 

[whoisthisguy]

 

[AEA18]

"What are we not listening to?"

 

[Barbados Slim]

And they are still charging him with disorderly...

 

[sonoftony]

 

[Hahahaha]

This is dope, I hope this **** kills the NFL owners and Trump. Bring all them ******s the **** down.

 

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President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.

"I'm going to ask them to recommend to me people who were unfairly treated," Trump said at the White House Friday.
The President said during the wide-ranging gaggle that he would consider pardoning or commuting the sentences of those recommended. He also floated a pardon for posthumous boxing great Muhammad Ali.

 

[MalcolmNewton]

Trying to get the black vote in mid-terms/2020

 

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[Nike Jordan]

 

[AEA18]

I really hope they don't fall for this BS

 

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Lawyer For Ex-49ers Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid: Big News Coming Soon

AP Photo/Mike McCarn
San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick (7) and Eric Reid (35) kneel during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06...in-kaepernick-eric-reid-big-news-coming-soon/

Another month, another promise of breaking news in Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance against the NFL.

“I will just say, stay tuned,” said Mark Geragos, attorney for Kaepernick and Eric Reid, former 49ers who believe they can’t get signed by an NFL team because of their participation in the national anthem silent protests of 2016.

“Next week there will be news on Kaep and Eric Reid,” Geragos said on his weekly podcast, Reasonable Doubt.

Kaepernick opted out of his 49ers contract in early 2017. Reid’s 49ers contract expired at the end of the 2017 season. Both wish to continue their football careers but no NFL team has signed them. San Francisco general manager John Lynch has said he would consider resigning Reid, a safety, but there has been no movement on that front as of yet.

Geragos has deposed several NFL owners and commissioner Roger Goodell related to the grievance. Kaepernick has sat in on many of the depositions, as is his right.

Speaking of reasonable doubt, Geragos’ teaser echoes the one he issued in late May, when, according to NBC Sports, he hinted that a source inside the NFL was ready to testify against the league.

“I would stay tuned because this case is about to take a dramatic turn,” Geragos said in May.

Meaning?

“Somebody has decided they were going to dime out the NFL for what they were doing.”

No such development has been reported.

 

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ESPN's Jemele Hill Says It's 'Embarrassing' That the NFL Supports Criminals, But Not Colin Kaepernick

ESPN journalist Jemele Hill said NFL should feel "embarrassed" by treatment of quarterback Colin Kaepernick. (Emma McIntyre / Getty Images

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ny-ent-jemele-hill-kaepernick-trump-20180627-story.html

ESPN journalist Jemele Hill is blunt about one-time Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s dismal career prospects.

“He’s never going to play in the NFL again,” Hill told the Daily News ahead of her upcoming appearance at Ozy Fest in Central Park July 22.

“It’s disappointing, it’s disheartening and if you’re the NFL, you should feel very embarrassed by that.”

That the NFL has seemingly decided to make an example of Kaepernick to dissuade other players from activism strikes Hill, 42, as “startling,” especially considering the league’s spotty track record of disciplining “criminals.”

Kaepernick is currently a free agent, having not been signed by any of the 32 NFL teams after facing criticism for kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and violence against people of color.

Former NFL quarterback and social justice activist Colin Kaepernick accuses the league of colluding to keep him out of a job. (Peter Dejong / AP)

The former San Francisco 49ers starter filed a grievance against the league and its owners last year, accusing them of colluding to not hire him.

“It wasn’t some crime (Kaepernick) did to somebody, it wasn’t hurting another person,” Hill said. “It was using his right as an American citizen to call out some of the ills and atrocities in this country.”

Regardless, she noted that Kaepernick is “already in the history books.”

“He’s got an exhibit in the Smithsonian,” Hill said. “He’s going to have streets and schools named after him.”

Hill believes there will eventually be a “softening” in a few decades, and that people will look back on Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the national anthem the same way history remembers Muhammad Ali’s refusal to serve in Vietnam.

“After seeing what happened in Vietnam and how Ali’s career and activism further blossomed, people now say, ‘Oh, he made the right decision. That was great!’” Hill said. “People want to wait until they’re proven right to actually say something is a good idea.”

Hill has rarely held back from speaking her mind, which has propelled her into the national spotlight and elevated her as both a lightning rod for controversy and as a pioneering black, female journalist in an industry dominated by white men.

It’s one of the reasons she’s been invited to speak alongside newsmakers like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laverne Cox, Chelsea Handler and Martha Stewart at Ozy Fest, a two-day festival July 21-22 featuring panels, talks and live performances in Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield.

Talib Kweli performs onstage during Ozy Fest last year. (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images)

Hill said she’s still getting used to random people on the internet — and occasionally the White House, which infamously called for her to be fired last year for referring to President Trump as a “white supremacist” — telling her to “stick to sports.”

“But if 45 seconds on Colin Kaepernick is going to ruin your day, then you need to get a little tougher,” Hill said.

Despite the desire that many of Hill’s detractors have to divorce sports from current affairs, “Sports is not a shield from the real world,” Hill argued.

She pointed to gender violence in sports that’s been under-reported, as well as former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual assault against members of the team, including minors, as examples of the “real-world problems” that cross over into sports journalism.

“There’s no corner in America we can really go and not be bothered unless you’re watching cartoons all day, but that’s not real life,” Hill said. “People act like this is some kind of new phenomenon where we’re going through a phase of talking about sports and politics, or sports and social issues, when that’s literally been the case with sports always.”

Confronting uncomfortable issues — including the policies of the Trump administration — is “part of the job” not just for journalists, but all citizens.

Trump and members of his administration have targeted Hill directly after she called the President a 'white supremacist.' (Carolyn Kaster / AP)

Hill brought up that a majority of Americans supported internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II, and that the LA Times penned an editorial in favor of the camps 76 years ago.

“It goes to show that we’ve been repeatedly put up to this test and we’ve failed it,” Hill said.

This tendency for history to repeat itself is the main reason Hill winces when she sees social media posts arguing that America “is better than this.”

“As a journalist who’s responsible for putting these things into context, it’s fascinating and compelling to see that mentality over and over again,” Hill said. “Every time we say we’re going to be better, we’re not better.”

 

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ESPN's Jemele Hill Says It's 'Embarrassing' That the NFL Supports Criminals, But Not Colin Kaepernick

ESPN journalist Jemele Hill said NFL should feel "embarrassed" by treatment of quarterback Colin Kaepernick. (Emma McIntyre / Getty Images

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ny-ent-jemele-hill-kaepernick-trump-20180627-story.html

shout out to @dcallamerican always talkin that talk

 

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[nawghtyhare]

thats not real though

 

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[nawghtyhare]

thats a ps

 

[AEA18]

People really falling for that PS pic?

 

[cedric ceballos]

Going off the stuff I see on social media. People believe quite a lot of stuff they see posted on the internet.

Hell a few weeks back it was a punch of ppl reposting stuff on ig and twitter thinking they would become Nike brand ambassadors and get free stuff

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Know damn well her old *** getting down on one knee. Lol

 

[Mark Antony]

Not even a good photoshop, no way folks thought that was real.

 

[Nawzlew]

the leg looks like an emoji

 

[AL Andretti]