The Colin Kaepernick Thread

Tahmoh Penikett, Leonard Peltier, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jim Thorpe, Joseph Brant

Not Bristol Palin?

Convenient that they're all dead, isn't it?

I could if Whitey didn't go out their way to erase Native American culture.

So, he's Archie Bunker if Archie shopped for quinoa at Whole Foods.

This.

I do not shop at whole paycheck and both Jimbo's and Sprouts have great selections of stuff like quinoa.

Came across this article:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opin...ick-police-brutality-20160831-snap-story.html

Tell me again how privileged black athletes are today.

Holy shit, he probably is a Gary Johnson supporter. Day made.

Steve Foley was a complete ass clown and thug. Seriously, he was notified over and over that it was a cop, he chose to ignore the cop, and then charged at the cop while his girlfriend revved the car and threatened to run over the cop. This is on top of twice before this getting drunk and starting fights in clubs then trying to fight the police when they showed up. Oh, and his multiple DUI arrests and god knows what else.

Seriously though a guy who has a record of twice attacking cops wants us to believe he just didn't know when he attacks a cop a third time? Oh, and the cop says he announced himself as police over and over while Foley was later found to be four times the legal BAL right after the incident? Yeah, I am taking the veteran cop with a good record over the guy who was four times the legal limit and had twice before gotten arrested for resisting arrest.

Nonthugs do not make a habit of attacking other people at bars, attacking cops, resistong arrest, etc... His consta t legal troubles and bad attitude is why the team got rid of him.

But does his life matter?
All lives matter, right?

All lives matter, my trolling friend, and he is still very much alive. The objection was Anna's article claimed that case was some how an example of police abuse when it absolutely was not and the cops (in all three cases with Foley) where completely cleared. Yes, when you rev your car engine and threaten to run over a cop that is a threat to a cop's life and deadly force is reasonable in that case.

In the other two cases he got drunk at bars, got into fights with other patrons, when the bouncers tried to kick him out he beat up the bouncers who called the cops, when the cops arrived to arrest him he fought with the cops. He did this twice before he tried to run over a cop while being four times the legal limit, and also lead them on a high speed chase refusing to pull over.

So there's one rotten apple outta that entire list.

Does that negate the point that wealth and privilege are not the same thing? A rich black kid is more likely to get followed in a store than a rich white kid. A poor black kid is more likely to get followed in a store than a poor white kid. Colin Kaepernick gets this, in spite of the white bread bubble he almost certainly grew up in.

Well if you look at how the character was played by Carroll O'Connor, even "Archie Bunker wasn't Archie Bunker" onscreen.

Question for you. In a store I worked in, there was this group of religious people who look like Amish people even though they use modern technology. They've gained a reputation for theft. They also happen to be white people. They get watched very closely when they shop in that store. Is that store discriminating against them? Does everyone who isn't in this group have a form of "privilege?"

Depends. Is it the same group of people being watched? Because that's just fucking common sense. Now, if they're going out their way to have all Amish looking kids tailed in a store, yeah that's discrimination and yes, that shit happens still happens to black kids of all income levels. Even the "good" ones like me who didn't dress like a hood rat and had a command of proper English when speaking.

And once again, with you being a part of the most marginalized minority in our history, I'm astounded that this kind of shit goes over your head like a 747.

Conservatives SILENT As 49ers Player Arrested For Beating A Senior Citizen

The firestorm of conservative condemnation surrounding San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem has put into sharp perspective their silence for the real crimes that high-profile NFL players commit. That was made quite obvious this week when 49ers tight end Bruce Miller was arrested for assaulting a 70-year-old man.

Miller was previously arrested for spousal violence in an incident in which he allegedly shoved his girlfriend to the ground and broke her phone, which was later downgraded to “disturbing the peace” by prosecutors after he pleaded no contest. He was sentenced to sixteen weeks of domestic violence counselling and banned from seeing his fiancee for six months.

It’s clear that counseling didn’t work. Miller attempted to rent a room at the Fisherman’s Wharf Marriott Hotel on Sunday, September 5th. He was told there were no vacancies. He left and consumed a great deal of alcohol before returning and knocking on a door occupied by an elderly couple. When their 29-year-old son told Miller he had the wrong room, Miller began punching him. His 70-year-old father came to his aid, and Miller punched him too and broke several bones. Both were taken to the hospital.


Miller was promptly released from the 49ers.

Unsurprisingly, there are no complaints from the right-wing about a white man committing acts of violence against innocent bystanders. But a black man dares to make a political statement and the media erupts in barrage of hot takes as “conservatives” come out of the woodwork, their racist indignation cloaked in false patriotism. NFL fans will recall that Carolina Panthers quarterback and the league’s 2015 MVP Cam Newton received a swath of criticism last year for his end-zone celebration dances, calling him a “showboat” – but there was silence when, for instance, Texans star defensive end JJ Watt does four dances in a row after a single sack.

The distress and implicit fear that whites feel at outspoken minorities is even well-documented. Robert Livingston, a lecturer on public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government examined the issue in a 2012 study called The Hubris Penalty: Biased Responses to “Celebration” Displays of Black Football Players. Livingston and Erika V. Hall found that, despite black players making up 65% of the NFL in 2010-11, they received 91% of the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties called after touchdowns that year. “Minorities are expected to do their jobs quietly, without making a fuss” says Livingston.

I am personally a huge fan of NFL football and love it with all my heart – but that shouldn’t keep anyone from turning a blind eye to the obvious double standards that white and black players are held to – and put and end to the quiet, resigned acceptance that the league and its fans offer to players who commit acts of violence off the field. While there will always be shameless and morally vacant franchises like the Dallas Cowboys, willing to sign an unrepentant monster like Greg Hardy to give themselves a better shot at winning, we as fans must not tolerate this kind of behavior.

one bad apple...

I'd have to check the source, but I saw on Facebook that the entire Seahawks team is joining in on Kaepernik's protest.

Yes, but that's Seattle. They hate America anyway.

Seattle is one of the few American cities that isn't kind of a shithole.

Yeah, it's a total shithole. People there eat out of dumpsters and brag about how lucky they are.

You're confusing it with Portland.

I thought people in Portland were still stuck on free-range chickens hand-raised by hippies.

That's also Portland

Nope

Seattle residential complex.



Nickelsville Seattle.


Improved Seattle properties.


Great view.


Seattle residential neighborhood. Most other cities would use those homes to house chickens.

And then of course you have all the rioting anarchists.

Every American city has this shit. Seattle's just nicer than most.

Leave your rent controlled, roommate filled house once in a while, then maybe you'd have a better idea of what you're talking about.

And thanks for wasting all that time to show is the bloody obvious.