Do any of you find it strange that Kaepernick doesn't do interviews or hasn't written a book?

[Booker T Garvey]

Whether we like it or not, CK is the face of this era's "black resistance movement", same as Huey p Newton, Garvey, and the great El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

But unlike them, CK is a recluse. He doesn't really debate, discuss anything in open forums, do interviews, really hasn't espoused his own ideas in any type of way outside of a few sound bites and tweets.

Even Marcus Garvey has audio interviews on youtube, CK has none. I find this...interesting. anybody else find this strange or are you cool with it.

 

[OfTheCross]

I've always thought he was a terrible speaker.

Yesterday TMZ showed him addressing the media, that might have been the best public speech I've seen from him.

Let's see, if he's been working on that and gotten better maybe he'll do it more

 

[Everythingg]

You can’t talk if you have nothing to say. He’s a fake revolutionary being propped up by Nike at this point.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

You can’t talk if you have nothing to say. He’s a fake revolutionary being propped up by Nike at this point.

But that's the issue, if you say anything critical of CK that's your ass...but it's too much to ask that he TALKS?

he won't even debate or discuss his stance on anything publicly or anything...he's more like a paid model for the movement as opposed to being an actual leader or intellectual.

 

[get these nets]

Whether we like it or not, CK is the face of this era's "black resistance movement", same as Huey p Newton, Garvey, and the great El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

But unlike them, CK is a recluse. He doesn't really debate, discuss anything in open forums, do interviews, really hasn't espoused his own ideas in any type of way outside of a few sound bites and tweets.

Even Marcus Garvey has audio interviews on youtube, CK has none. I find this...interesting. anybody else find this strange or are you cool with it.

people are so starved for leadership that they put that mantle on people who aren't leaders.

what people see as the current tariq nasheed heel turn, is really people seeing his shortcomings with clear vision...for a recent example of my point


Kap was FEARLESS to risk his livelihood to make a stand about this country not living up to it's ideals. I respect and applaud that move. However, once he made that public gesture of not kneeling for the anthem.....other NFL players and public figures made moves and actions to try to CHANGE some of the realities that Kap's protest was meant to highlight.

example


fyi, Anquan Boldin is in the video and his COUSIN died during an incident involving police in 2014

The impression I've gotten from Kap is that he's more interested in appearance as a symbol/ leader than in trying to CHANGE the conditions that he was protesting against. Other athletes who have picked up the baton that Kap started, have publicly said the same thing.

 

[Wargames]

I’ve assumed he doesn’t talk much because it is an ongoing case, and then he likely signed a nondisclose after he took a deal.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

I’ve assumed he doesn’t talk much because it is an ongoing case, and then he likely signed a nondisclose after he took a deal.

I'm speaking more so in general about any issue facing black people in america.

He's just a quiet dude and I know he's getting offers to speak, he just turns them down.

 

[Fanservice]

He’s not a leader. People want him to be one, but he’s not. He never had a plan in the beginning. He just did something with good intentions and other people wanted it to become a “movement”.

I honestly think he would have never kneeled if he knew it would’ve resulted in him not playing in the NFL. Because all he really wants to do is play football.

 

[agpxknt]

he's just an extension of the Black(gay) Lives Matter umbrella
can't talk because it runs the risk of exposing himself
he(they) speaks through symbolism now

 

[CASHAPP]

You can’t be a revolutionary if you leave one billion dollar industry in the NFL to claim you are standing against police brutality but then join another billion dollar industry in Nike who isn’t exactly addressing Black issues

It makes no sense and I wonder why people didn’t realize the hypocritical act of leaving the NFL but signing to Nike...and then returning back to the NFL

He hasn’t even spoken on reparations

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Because he doesn't care about the cause and you're a gullible fool for thinking a mixed raced tainted DNA demon pig blooded fakkit would have your or our best interests at heart. fukk him x2.

He just wants to sell Nike t-shirts for a premium -- he doesn't give a fukk about you and never did nor will he ever.

 

[agpxknt]

You can’t be a revolutionary if you leave one billion dollar industry in the NFL to claim you are standing against police brutality but then join another billion dollar industry in Nike who isn’t exactly addressing Black issues

It makes no sense and I wonder why people didn’t realize the hypocritical act of leaving the NFL but signing to Nike...and then returning back to the NFL

He hasn’t even spoken on reparations

The emotionalism of the Kaepernick saga has negroes stuck on stupid. Thats why they cant realize or think critically on the matters of this magical mulatto.

 

[Able Archer 83]

I don't want to say the guy lacks agency, but I'm convinced much of his actions were (and are) driven by his girlfriend. While it was his choice to kneel, it's ultimately his girlfriend who's done the heavy lifting in re: driving the discourse.

 

[Originalman]

people are so starved for leadership that they put that mantle on people who aren't leaders.

what people see as the current tariq nasheed heel turn, is really people seeing his shortcomings with clear vision...for a recent example of my point


Kap was FEARLESS to risk his livelihood to make a stand about this country not living up to it's ideals. I respect and applaud that move. However, once he made that public gesture of not kneeling for the anthem.....other NFL players and public figures made moves and actions to try to CHANGE some of the realities that Kap's protest was meant to highlight.

example


fyi, Anquan Boldin is in the video and his COUSIN died during an incident involving police in 2014

The impression I've gotten from Kap is that he's more interested in appearance as a symbol/ leader than in trying to CHANGE the conditions that he was protesting against. Other athletes who have picked up the baton that Kap started, have publicly said the same thing.

The thing brotha is everyone ain't built to be a leader of a movement. I don't expect kap to be a leader someone else needs to be that. Same way that rosa parks sparked the civil rights movement but she wasn't a leader.

The problem is this generation and the last generation feel that anyone and everyone who says something or makes a stand is a leader.

Also since Kap does not speak a lot of folks have stepped in and acted like they speaking on Kaps behalf cough cough..eric reid. Yet we don't even know if Kap agrees with his comments.

This is also why we have conflicting comments on whether folks should boycott or not boycott the NFL over Kap.

 

[Originalman]

He’s not a leader. People want him to be one, but he’s not. He never had a plan in the beginning. He just did something with good intentions and other people wanted it to become a “movement”.

I honestly think he would have never kneeled if he knew it would’ve resulted in him not playing in the NFL. Because all he really wants to do is play football.

It also comes back to what I have mentioned about how folks are now a days. They literally want famous people to sacrifice everything but they themselves give up NOTHING.

The public wants kap to be a leader of a movement that Kap never created. With no NFL career Kap has to make money...but yet no one is sending him money to continue on or be a leader as they want him to be.

So Kap is caught in a bind like Craig Hodges or Chris Jackson aka Mr. Abdul Rauf (worst because their is no euroleague to make millions overseas) in which they gave up everything to make a stand and the same folks they made a stand for never threw them a life line.