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Is Colin Kaepernick a civil rights hero?

Is CK a civil rights hero?

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Slingshot Bob said:
White people are shot by cops at a much greater rate, even adjusting for population, for someone to speak out against only one totally discredits the message.

Get back to me when he mentions all the people getting shot.
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Love to see your data, I don't believe you're upset about cops killing whites like that either, or that you would alter your opinion of him if he brought up your data anyway.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
He is a privileged, spoiled rich kid who would not have a clue about oppression if he was teleported into North Korea.
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Do you think that black Americans are always treated exactly the same as white Americans by our criminal justice system?
 
Fenton Lum said:
You know what my hissyfitting friend? You're right, I pasted in the wrong quote. Here ya go:

In the strictest sense of the word, Kaepernick is a bigot. "The Country" does not stand for oppression. "The Cops" are not targeting black people. Start there. Had he used his platform as a professional athlete to promote a dialogue that appropriately reflects a problem...thats one thing. But making blanket accusations or claims that 'the country' is racist is as wrong and foolish as claiming 'the blacks' are violent gang bangers, rapists, murderers, welfare queens, and thugs.

Kaepernick made his own bed. He's going to have to make himself comfy in it. Its telling that he has declared he wont be doing it this year. He is also unemployed. Hmmmm....kinda have to wonder what happened to his resolve. As for his employment status...he isnt unemployed because of his stand. He is unemployed because no one needs a starter and no one is going to pay his kind of money for a back-up. When a QB goes down, teams will come calling.

There.
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:lamo

"Hissyfit", coming from the guy that is so imbalanced and full of hatred he has been non stop posting irrelevant comments, outright lies, and cant even bother to post the right comments.

Now...feel free to show me ANYWHERE in that comment that stated there was NOTHING wrong.
 
VanceMack said:
:lamo

"Hissyfit", coming from the guy that is so imbalanced and full of hatred he has been non stop posting irrelevant comments, outright lies, and cant even bother to post the right comments.

Now...feel free to show me ANYWHERE in that comment that stated there was NOTHING wrong.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn, damn you're thick:

"In the strictest sense of the word, Kaepernick is a bigot. "The Country" does not stand for oppression. "The Cops" are not targeting black people. But making blanket accusations or claims that 'the country' is racist is as wrong and foolish as claiming 'the blacks' are violent gang bangers, rapists, murderers, welfare queens, and thugs."

I'll accept your silly repeated denial in advance my nadless friend. You bristle that the negro got all uppity.
 
VanceMack said:
:lamo

"Hissyfit", coming from the guy that is so imbalanced and full of hatred he has been non stop posting irrelevant comments, outright lies, and cant even bother to post the right comments.

Now...feel free to show me ANYWHERE in that comment that stated there was NOTHING wrong.
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Every post of his contains the words.... ignorant, hate, racist, etc. etc. etc.
 
Bucky said:
Shannon Sharpe agrees that Colin Kaepernick is this generation's Muhammad Ali | FOX Sports



I applaud Colin Kaepernick for standing up for his beliefs and rights, even though it is costing him employment in the NFL. In many ways, he needs to be praised when many other high-profile athletes remain silient on the issue.
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No, he's not. Not even close. He's an awful quarterback whose rather clueless about foreign relations and history. Compare him to any actual civil rights hero and it doesn't stack up well for Kaepernick.
 
Fenton Lum said:
It's all in your words pard:

"I’ve said this, and I do agree because I believe in 15, 20, 50 years from now, history will look fondly upon Colin Kaepernick and the stance that he took for the betterment of minorities. See, people have a hard time looking at Colin Kaepernick as a Dr. King, as a Muhammed Ali, or as a Ms. Rosa Parks because they’re looking at these iconic figures 50 years after the fact.

"But I can assure you that when Ms. Parks did what she did, I think in 1955, I’m sure there were some blacks in her very community that said, ‘Why wouldn’t she give up her seat? She had given up her seat so many times before, why is she causing a scene now?’

"Just like they said about Colin Kaepernick, 'This police brutality has been going on, why now?' I’m sure when Muhammad Ali took the stance that he took -- and Dr. Harry Edwards was one of the organizers of the Black Summit, of the prominent black athletes that came together to show their support for Muhammad Ali -- they asked, ‘Why wouldn’t he go fight?’ And Muhammad Ali asked, ‘Why am I going to go kill some Vietkong? They’re not here turning their dogs on me. They’re not firing water hoses on me, but you want me to go over there and kill them?’ "

Think.
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Muhammad Ali didn't go out of his way to praise a communist dictator. Kaepernick did.
 
Fenton Lum said:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn, damn you're thick:

"In the strictest sense of the word, Kaepernick is a bigot. "The Country" does not stand for oppression. "The Cops" are not targeting black people. But making blanket accusations or claims that 'the country' is racist is as wrong and foolish as claiming 'the blacks' are violent gang bangers, rapists, murderers, welfare queens, and thugs."

I'll accept your silly repeated denial in advance my nadless friend. You bristle that the negro got all uppity.
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"The Country" does NOT stand for oppression. You would have to be the worlds biggest dumbass to actually believe that it does. "The Cops" are NOTtargeting black people. Again...You have to be a willful idiot to believe that to be the case. "Black People" are NOT "violent gang bangers, rapists, murderers, welfare queens, and thugs." Once again...you would have to be a total idiot to believe that to be the case.

All three of those comments are expressions of bigotry. Surely you agree.
 
Fenton Lum said:
Of course it does. Anyone who questions the system must be shouted down.
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The children of the wealthy or upper middle class(aka the people you blame for all the world's ills) make a large part of various "revolutionary" organizations dedicated to "challenging the system" and imposing something....else.

Look at the various terrorist organizations of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for a prime example.
 
I don't view him as a hero. But I also have no problem whatsoever with what he has done.
 
Tigerace117 said:
The children of the wealthy or upper middle class(aka the people you blame for all the world's ills) make a large part of various "revolutionary" organizations dedicated to "challenging the system" and imposing something....else.

Look at the various terrorist organizations of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for a prime example.
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You're assigning me views? Oh that's cute.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Every post of his contains the words.... ignorant, hate, racist, etc. etc. etc.
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Actually it was VM who was incessantly whining about how Kaepernick is a bigot because Kaepernick took a stand against racism.

It's among the stupidest arguments i've ever seen.
 
Tigerace117 said:
No, he's not. Not even close. He's an awful quarterback whose rather clueless about foreign relations and history. Compare him to any actual civil rights hero and it doesn't stack up well for Kaepernick.
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Add in that he is an attention whore who in the last two years barely acts like playing football is important to him and the lack of interest in having him around is understandable.
 
VanceMack said:
:lamo

"Hissyfit", coming from the guy that is so imbalanced and full of hatred he has been non stop posting irrelevant comments, outright lies, and cant even bother to post the right comments.

Now...feel free to show me ANYWHERE in that comment that stated there was NOTHING wrong.
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Here you go:

VanceMack said:
...But making blanket accusations or claims that 'the country' is racist...
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Your implication is that considering how there might be racism in our country is, itself, an act of bigotry. This is ridiculously stupid, i don't know how anyone could claim that with a straight face, but there you have it.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Add in that he is an attention whore who in the last two years barely acts like playing football is important to him and the lack of interest in having him around is understandable.
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Well he sucks at football so I guess it's not too suprising he's lost interest.
 
Bucky said:
Shannon Sharpe agrees that Colin Kaepernick is this generation's Muhammad Ali | FOX Sports



I applaud Colin Kaepernick for standing up for his beliefs and rights, even though it is costing him employment in the NFL. In many ways, he needs to be praised when many other high-profile athletes remain silient on the issue.
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If Krapernick is anything, he is the worlds must ungreatful adoptee.

A white couple adopted him as an infant and raised him as their own, probably saving him from a likely early death as a nameless statistic in some no name ghetto. His two evil adoptive parents raised him as their own and supported his career from "Wiggles & Giggles" day care through college until he was drafted as an NFL quarterback.

Krapernick Is a thankless prick.
 
Tigerace117 said:
I don't particularly care what the draft dodger said.

Kaepernick can't cry about "oppression" when he supports it in another country.,
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Ha! That right there is american as apple pie, we do it every day.
 
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