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NFL players should absolutely speak out when 95% of them are African-American and the much of America's policies, namely criminal justice, still targets Black people at disproportionate rates. Good for Kaepernick...the players should be speaking out more on his behalf to get him a job.
By the way, when was the last Jim Brown spoke or did anything to evoke major change? Handing out turkeys during the holidays is not the change that Kaepernick is fighting for!
i agree to a point. as for getting kap a job, he needs to do that himself. he is the one that needs to convince coaches and GMs to hire him.
yes, just now starting after two seasons or so of kap kneeling during the anthem. if he had done it right the first time, it would be a regular topic of conversation right now.
After I saw the player with the 'pig cops' socks last season, I turned off the NFL altogether. It was the first year since I was a teenager that I didn't watch a single game. And I knew the practice of shoving their politics into the sport would only continue and increase. And I think that, while most Americans were willing to ignore it at first, it's going to get to a point where even middle of the road folks are going to feel enough is enough. People turn on sports for entertainment, not politics.
We immerse ourselves in sports to forget work and politics. It was always a safe haven, but EVERYTHING has to be politicized now. It sucks!
I have not read all the posts. I am for free speech and I am also for taking the consequences of one's actions.
Anyone who would jeopardize a lucrative NFL career to make the political statement he made is just plain stupid. It is my understanding that kaepernick was from a privileged upbringing. I assume he always got a trophy for participation, and has probably never suffered the consequences of his actions. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for him.
There is a place for proudly standing up against "the man". In this case, he was dumb.
Kneeling during the national anthem backfires as much as BLM blocking freeways.
Doing something as a protest that irritates people rarely makes them sympathetic to your cause.
you're comparing kneeling to blocking traffic? And you're saying that kneeling irritates people? Being mad at kneeling is peak fake outrage. He kneeled in a couple other preseason games before anyone even noticed. It was the most out of site out of mind protesting a person can do.
After I saw the player with the 'pig cops' socks last season, I turned off the NFL altogether. It was the first year since I was a teenager that I didn't watch a single game. And I knew the practice of shoving their politics into the sport would only continue and increase. And I think that, while most Americans were willing to ignore it at first, it's going to get to a point where even middle of the road folks are going to feel enough is enough. People turn on sports for entertainment, not politics.
Yeah, everyone claims that they turned off football last year. Totally believable..
Which is why the NFL made more money than ever last season....because you all turned it off. LMAO
I swear, some of you posters think EVERYBODY is stupid with the crap you come in here with and expect people to believe.
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