Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know

[DCAllAfrican]

White people are something else. How you gon tell us who we should and shouldn't celebrate?

They love picking and choosing, rewriting history.

I mean @nawghtyhare 's daughter was told she couldn't write about Malcolm X and @nawghtyhare didn't check the teacher.

 

[HEATHEN]

u don't think they were bout dat moral compass life towards Kaep

Nah.

It was a business decision. He wasn’t good and the PR ****storm they’d have to perpetually deal with by signing him wasn’t worth it to them.

They crunched the numbers, weighed the pros & cons, and ultimately decided he wasn’t worth the hassle.

Could he win a team like the Jaguars or Raiders a few games? Yes. Could he have helped a potential playoff team like the Red Skins continue to win after their QB got hurt? Yes.

He might even be able to win a playoff game or two. Guy is talented, in spite of his often poor play, he at one point was one of the most dynamic playmakers in the game.

He was electric.

I still think Chip Kelly left us with a warped idea of who Colin Kaepernick the QB really is and what he is capable of in the right context. The problem is that a QB like that is that he can’t do it all on his own.

And when you’re a team that doesn’t have a real vested interest in winning, a borderline guy like Kaepernick isn’t worth it. It doesn’t matter if he’s more qualified and a lot better than the next best candidate then at that point.

I don’t think it’s about morality no matter what a team might release. They can pretend it’s about his conduct but really it’s business.

 

[AOkae]

White people are something else. How you gon tell us who we should and shouldn't celebrate?

They love picking and choosing, rewriting history.

@ them trying to put sheriff Clarke in place of Kap.

 

[cedric ceballos]

Best news I’ve heard all week

Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything lol.

 

[HEATHEN]

Lol, white people.

 

[layziegunts]

@ them trying to put sheriff Clarke in place of Kap.

A man I truly hate

 

[aepps20]

@ them trying to put sheriff Clarke in place of Kap.

SMH.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Sounds like he got paid

 

[headdetective]

Interested to see how this plays out from here...

 

[dland24]

I bet he got so breaded out. Rightfully so!

 

[lightweight champion]

Sounds like Kap got paid but the NFL doesn’t have to plead guilty to collusion.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Let’s say he turned down the $20Ms from that AAF because he knew he was getting more from the NFL.

sounds like a win to me. No wear and tear on your body either

 

[ninjahood]

No, I meant starting.

Why would he ever have to *compete* for a backup job if he’s better than Carr, Eli, Bortles, Flacco, Dalton etc?

He should have been given the opportunity to compete for another starting gig.

out da league a year+ = not game ready.

 

[lightweight champion]

out da league a year+ = not game ready.

The guys you mentioned show up every week yet they’re never game ready.

 

[lightweight champion]

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Most likely will be the last time we hear about it. Things go back to usual. Reid getting big bread. He just got a new deal with the Panthers and this settlement.

 

[addict4sneakers]

 

[had pants]

 

[iamdef]

Glad he got paid but I know he'd rather be playing ball
I wonder, if this case is resolved does he now have a realistic opportunity to play ball?

 

[jaypesoz]

Seeing him in a Patriots uni would be the craziest thing ever. Why'd Chris Carter even have to put that seed in my head?

 

[iamdef]

Seeing him in a Patriots uni.......

 

[doublemesh96]

 

[hand2handking]

GOP Aide Leaves Job After Twitter Flap About Colin Kaepernick and Black History

Barbara Dittrich (Photo11: Submitted)

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...ter-twitter-flap-colin-kaepernick/2873917002/

MADISON - A legislative aide left his Capitol job this week after his boss expressed anger over him using her Twitter account to criticize Colin Kaepernick during a tense floor debate about Black History Month.

As lawmakers argued about whether to recognize the National Football League quarterback on Tuesday, Rep. Barbara Dittrich's Twitter account weighed in on the issue.

"Colin Kapernick wore socks depicting police as pigs. Flags are flying at half-staff for a murdered policeman. Are you kidding me????" her account tweeted.

The tweet, which misspelled Kaepernick's name and referred to the recent shooting of Milwaukee Police Officer Matthew Rittner, was soon deleted.

Afterward, Dittrich disavowed the tweet and said she had not posted it or authorized it. Dittrich, an Oconomowoc Republican, said her aide, Keith Best, had access to her account and she would discipline him if she determined he had posted the tweet.

He retired on Wednesday, according to Kit Beyer, a spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester.

"Keith Best is no longer an employee of the state Assembly," Beyer said by email. "He elected to retire following the representative’s concerns over his unauthorized tweet."

Best was paid $52,000 a year before he relinquished his job. He had worked for the Assembly for four years, according to Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller.

Best did not immediately return a call Thursday.

The episode unfolded amid a broader fight over Black History Month that consumed the Wisconsin Legislature and attracted national attention.

White Republicans refused to take up a resolution written by black Democrats that honored numerous black Americans, including Kaepernick, who was born in Milwaukee and has drawn controversy for kneeling during the national anthem to protest what he views as racial injustice.

Republicans dropped his name from the resolution. The Assembly passed the measure unanimously, but many Democrats afterward registered their opposition to it.

Senators passed the resolution on party lines, with all Democrats opposed because Kaepernick's name was stripped from it.

Not The First Twitter Incident

Best has gotten attention before for his use of Twitter.

In July, Best used the Twitter account of then-Rep. Tom Weatherston, R-Caledonia, to respond to a tweet from Democratic Sen. Lena Taylor of Milwaukee that argued voter suppression was overlooked.

"Those claiming that minorities are not smart enough to follow voting rules with a Photo ID are the true racists," read the tweet from Weatherston's account.

Weatherston later called the tweet racist and said Best had told him he had posted it "by mistake." Weatherston said at the time he would decide whether to discipline Best based on input from human resources officials and Vos.

Weatherston wouldn't say this week whether he had disciplined Best over that incident.

In 2016, Best was a spokesman for the Waukesha County Republican Party when it tweeted that then-U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville had "played into Democrats' hands" by uninviting Donald Trump to a Wisconsin event that was taking place just after the release of the “Access Hollywood” video that featured Trump talking about assaulting women.

Around the same time, the county party’s Twitter account mocked Miss Universe Alicia Machado for supposedly having a double chin.

Best at the time refused to say whether he controlled the county party’s Twitter account and maintained it was run by women whom he would not identify out of fear of retaliation.

 

[blastercombo]

Still not enough. Those billionaires don’t care about that small amount. They got what they wanted. “No N______ER I own taking a knee!”

 

[Majorbread]

Kaep!! Secure the bag!

Hopefully Eric Reid got some bread in that too, I thought the absence of his signing was even worse that Kaeps