Ok, I'm on a computer, and I'm just going to give one man's perspective.
@Champ_KW thanks for the inspiration.
Preface: My username Hov is definitely taken straight from Jay-Z - but, that was in 2001, on SOHH website. I am almost 40 now, and haven't given a damn about trying to stan or protect what some rapper is doing. I was 18-19 back in the day when I cared that much. So please no "Hov stan" b.s.
Here is my background, and I won't give too many details because I WILL get in trouble.
I have direct NFL backgrounds, ownership info, lockerroom information, White House Barack Obama partnerships, and more. So my reasoning only is a spin-off what I KNOW, but doesn't make it gospel. No one man's perspective is the gospel, but it's what I know.
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Colin Kap caused some issues in 49ers when he was there, and he stank up the joint towards the end. Players did not rock with him heavy, or respect him as a top guy (the opposition at least.) Do you Googles and talk to some guys that played if you know him.
Yeah I heard Kap wasn't loved by his teammates at least early in his career.
When his kneeling first went viral, it was more of a "Why would I follow that dude" from the older guys, and definitely ignorance from the younger generation, which is what happens to young black millionaires - not excusable but it's life, and a whole different convo.
When it really became a Trump/Race issue, a lot of people stood behind Kap regardless of personal feelings. Never to speak a bad word about his play or who is was to support the mission in totality, and really to say F Trump.
Kap was going to get signed but wore the Castro shirt, and his girl basically called Ray Lewis a c00n, who literally has statues in Baltimore and is treated like a King, in one of the worst cities I've ever been in in my life. He F'd that up.
So both the Dolphins and Ravens had offers for him? Was Kap going to be signed in lieu of signing Cutler?
But all love to Kap.
Now, Kap settled and wants to play QB in the NFL, but wants real money, a starting job (Kap may not be in the NFL today in real life with if none of this happened, or would be RG3 status), hence him not being signed, plus with all the controversy, them owners ain't rocking with him. If you think any owner in any other sport in the USA isn't the same, you are living under a rock. The NBA MANDATES THERE PLAYERS TO STAND FOR ANTHEM.
For real. I'm tired of mans here acting like the NBA would have welcomed a version of Kap with open arms.
Now with initiatives:
A lot of the stuff Obama put into play, I was bought to the table to help with. Mainly MBK.
It changed my life.
I was allowed into the White House, and that sh*t was crazy.
You literally weren't allowed to do anything productive. If you bought something to the table or wanted to spend the budget the right way, you had to go through 100 people. And Obama team knew this, they just accepted this was part of the blockage of him being a black president. If one small rule in one line Section E of Book 100 wasn't right, they would make us start over. It is like living in an altervative universe that Trump can do whatever he wants when ME as a person who is not in politics saw how much Obama got blocked for anything.
Why was I in? To make the programs touch the real communities. The people we had and have in with us were real influencers, real community leaders, real people, real kids, real single mothers, real everything. Yea, its not in the newspaper or TheColi, but they don't write articles about everything man.
Budget? Well, non-profits have real buildings. With real employees who are really underpaid and working their asses off. With real costs (travel, food, lodging, social media for awareness and donations, websites, videos, etc) in order to get the projects, they are working on funding.
Yea, there are people who steal money. But people like JayZ don't eat from that. They may eat from the social capital, but these dudes are getting old and legit be trying to change the world before they die because they have done everything else, and stealing money from a nonprofit is so minimal it's like stealing a purse.
When you are behind the scenes you see how things really work. The public and Shaderoom commentators never sat at the tables or meetings I have been in. I know JayZ has been in meetings bigger than me.
You walk in with a name behind you, and them billionaires fund you to do stuff for your community because they don't care less either way - they just want money and a good name. Jay-z is taking heat, and is a money-making fool, but some real kids gonna eat, some real buildings are going to get built, some real lives are going to be saved because I have sene it happen.
Yes, I am beginning to get a little sour on Kap. I am trying not to, but the dude is living off the perception and not the reality. This is why he doesn't speak and let's his girl and his boys and Shaun King speak for him. It's been 2-3 years, no words. This why he may not even really want to play - in the general public eyes, he was Vick, and as long as they think he was some elite Russell Wilson QB, he can live off of that.
I'm not saying he isn't doing anything, but I also don't really see him as some penultimate leader that everyone needs to run everything by, because he wasn't kneeling thinking he was going to lose his job like Ali knew he was going to jail. He was a backup QB who kneeled for weeks and got out of his contract for FB reasons before some reporter caught wind and put him on blast.
fukk boy reasons?
I need Kap to stop attacking everyone through his girlfriend and minions and start being a real leader. F the NFL, them dudes ain't killing nobody. If Kap gets signed, do Trayvon Martins stop happening??? F the gotdamn NFL, why is this even a story? Get into the real community and fight the real ones killing us.
Kind of all over the place, but this what I think. I have friends and family that have done so much for their communities from NBA and NFL money, and all we are worried about is Kap getting a job, and JayZ deal - if I'm wrong about J, then shoot me, but that dude has some crazy smart people around him, and remember this:
PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. You can have a billion, but when you walk in that room to get stuff done, and you are JayZ or Diddy, people are enamored and rock with you. I saw it with my own eyes and it changed my mindset. Yea, you need money, but you can get more stuff done with respect, and Jay is throwing his respect around because everyone wants to be in the "IN" crowd.
