Kaepernick was treated as un-American and radical simply for asking the question, “Isn’t this lethal racism every American’s problem, and aren’t we letting down our flag by not fulfilling its promise?” Instead of defending him, most NFL owners stood by and quailed or in some cases projected tacit acceptance as Donald Trump called him a son of a bitch and suggested any player who took a knee be thrown out of the country. It was the ugly political version of a chokehold.
All those who vilified Kaepernick, where is the same demand for banishment, the same level of ugly feeling, the same red-faced, foaming sense of injury over the insult to America in that video of Floyd’s death, three white cops with all of their weight on his burdened back, grinding him into that pavement?“I haven’t seen the same OUTRAGE from people of influence when the conversation turns to Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and most recently George Floyd,” Miami Dolphins Coach Brian Flores said...
You know what else isn’t important enough to NFL owners? Curing their abidingly racist hiring practices. There are surely some fine individuals among NFL owners whose hearts burn on the issue of race — the Atlanta Falcons’ Arthur Blank quickly comes to mind — but collectively they act with such lazy consciences that they need “incentives” to address the fundamental disparity of just three black head coaches out of 32.
The truth about Kaepernick is that he’s not a radical or a SOB. He’s a reformer, in the great American tradition. As Frederick Douglass said of reformers, “They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction.” The NFL might have been proud of that, but it wasn’t.You cannot seal off murderous racial injustice in American life, partition it, any more than you can restrict a defective murmur to a single chamber of your own heart.
Swerdlick VINDICATION in action. Thank you Mr. Kaepernick!
Swerdlick Some in blue understand.
It’s amazing how good deeds by the many go unheralded. And, the negative actions of a few become the whole representation of a class. It’s wrong and it’s shameful. And, it shouldn’t excuse the destruction that follows a riot. So many innocent lives pay the cost.
BS! It's also why he's still unemployed!
It's exactly why Kaepernick took a knee. The NFL should have taken a stand with him.
CNN CBSThisMorning . GIVE COLIN KAEPERNICK BACK HIS JOB !!!!!!! YOU UNDERSTAND NOW WHY COLIN KAEPERNICK KNEELS DOWN FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. YOU ALL KNOW IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MILITARY BUT WHAT THE FLAG ACTUALLY STAND FOR; LIBERTY & JUSTICE
Hmmm in 5 yrs you found one obvious abuse were outright wrong on so many but you would swear 10 blacks a day get killed. Gross exaggeration. Being white my chances of being killed by cops is almost double that of a Blackman.
No he didn’t Sally. Karpernick is a racist at heart. He was acting out for attention.
Sally Jenkins is one of the great journalists out there. Every word of this is true.
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