Salute to Colin Kaepernick: Kaepernick sits during national anthem

[LezJepzin]

 

[DynamoEAR]

And then you'll become indoctrinated. Sad part is a lot of these "vote or die" types refuse to understand this shyt.

 

[KOohbt]

Yoooo

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Told that nikka to oil his joints

 

[King Kreole]

Wow, all that training and they still needed the public's help to find 82 year old Enrique Corpus

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LOCATED!

 

[Easy-E]

What's crazy, and I won't pretend I've been all on this issue, few ppl want to actually touch the actual issue he brought up.

Drew Brees is my man 50 grand. I get his two grand dads served in WWII. And he has a great relationship with the military. But, get the fukk outta here with "the flag is sacred."

Like this country ain't guilty of the very things we make bogeymen outta other countries. fukk! I'm tired trying to appeal to white people. They DO NOT GET IT.

But, hey, patriotism is religion to muhfukkas, here...

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Cac arrogance is astounding.

Blacks unhappy with the flag and anthem are more ready to accept how and why whites love it than whites are to accept how and why blacks are unhappy with it.

 

[Easy-E]

fukking Brees.

Might be the last year of this dude. He's the GOAT Saint but he's always seems forced and contrived.

5-11 season and he's

I literally just skimmed his quote

5% I get Kaep's point

95% AMERICAN BLA BLA BLA THE TROOPS BLA BLA BLA

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Tony Stewart is the last person to speak on social issues.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

double

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

Of course you do. Even after I actually agreed with not standing for the national anthem. However,I don't believe Colin is genuine with his stance and is just trying to transition into a new " career" of social activism. Anddddd in two weeks you won't care about this;and it will be a distant memory for you

Shut up cornball

 

[jadillac]

one interesting angle of this that ppl won't discuss is obviously that Kaep grew up and was raised by white people......yet when he walked outside, he was black.

So it's one thing to see his white parents/family treated one way, then he gets treated another way....POSSIBLY at the same time when he's with them in public. Going to school and the white kids prob didn't want to hang with him, even tho his fam is white, so he hung with Black ppl who embraced him.

That's gotta be kind of a mindwarp.

 

[Tim Dripcan]

a brother on facebook stated nothing but facts

I've received a few messages now asking how could I support Kaepernick and his "disrespect for the soldiers who fight and sometime die for our freedom."

First, I have incredible respect for the soldiers, but let's go thru who wrote the anthem and what it actually meant when written (and even today).

Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that later became "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1812. During this time, he owned between 1 and 6 slaves (Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801, and owned six slaves in 1820).

So...with this alone, I'm sure the land of the free didn't refer to someone like myself. Key was also anti-abolitionist. In 1833, Key secured a grand jury indictment against Benjamin Lundy and William Greer for printing an article that put a light on the injustices toward black people in America (not Black Americans, because that wasn't allowed yet).

The song was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover. These are the same years that black people in America (still not Black Americans) were told they could not purchase land in many areas, use the same bathrooms, and must ride on the back of the bus.

People said then that the anthem shows respect to the soldiers, but then would turn around and tell a black soldier (who fought and had wounds like every other soldier who made it back) that he cannot have a cup of coffee.

Yes, today is different that those times. But if a black soldier coming home TODAY decided to go for a jog on a cool night in sweats and a hoodie, he would NOT get the same respect as other Americans (soldiers or not) in many places in this country. And if dared question why, Fox News and other American voices have already said, he shouldn't have been wearing "thug wear." The same "thug wear" I would see Mark Zuckerberg wear dozens of times on the Facebook campus.

So I stand with Kaepernick, because if Ali, King, Abdul-Jabbar, Brown didn't stand when it was unpopular...well...I might not be allowed on Facebook to even say this

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Here comes Jerry Rice being a limp wrist hoe

 

[erickonasis]

Powerful

 

[DynamoEAR]

Jerry Rice c00ning it's over brehs.