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Dear Colin Kaepernick: America’s Spoiled Brat
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Sep 26, 2017 13:52:50   #
S. Maturin
 
permafrost wrote:
You could not tell BS from the deposit you cat leaves on you shoulder.


HA! Hit a nerve, eh?

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Sep 26, 2017 14:44:42   #
permafrost Loc: Minnesota
 
S. Maturin wrote:
HA! Hit a nerve, eh?



I have nerves of steel.... even superman envies me....Ha, ha ha....

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Sep 26, 2017 15:26:43   #
permafrost Loc: Minnesota
 
Before Trump’s remarks, Kaepernick’s career was in a difficult position. The owners were already shying away from hiring him because they didn’t want the controversy. It had less to do with any opinions they had of his protest, and more to do with not wanting to kick up dust and lose fans. Trump ended their dilemma by activating his base; the feared boycott movement is now at full strength.

The brash way he did it is what united the NFL against him. He could have just targeted Kaepernick and the relative few who are following his lead. But to get a bigger cheer at his rally, he threw all the owners, players, and league supporters who don’t fall in line with the red meat base in the same boat, thus giving them common cause.

In this process, the racism of his base (if you doubt its existence, take a gander at right wing comments sections like those on Breitbart about the Negro Felon League and the “monkeys” and “thugs” who play in it), has become even more exposed. The players who weren’t as attuned to it as Kaepernick are now having it shoved in their face. The owners and league execs, seeing their bottom lines threatened, have no appetite for the politicization of their league. They just want this stuff to go away so they can run their business. While Kaepernick irked them, they are now besieged by the President and his followers and will unite accordingly.

So while Kaepernick started it, Trump has forced the situation to a level it never would have reached otherwise.

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Sep 26, 2017 15:53:04   #
Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO
 
S. Maturin wrote:
HA! Hit a nerve, eh?


I think Kaepernick's little sit down and kneeling stunt had more to do with his narcissistic nature of not being played, simply due to very poor performances and was basically riding the bench. He just couldn't stand this, so he dreams up this black lives matters bullshit to get him back in the news and stardom. Then when SF cut him and no other team signed him, he and his ilk claimed it was because he disrespected our Country, Old Glory and Veterans which could be nothing but further from the truth. For some of you low information libtoids, (rhymes with hemorrhoids) he did disrespect all of the above, but the NFL is a money making venture and Kaepernick with his sub-par mediocre play just didn't warrant him a contract. Then President Trump weighs in with "fire the sons of bitches who disrespect our country" (which many fans agree with) really fires up the libtoid base, thus making it all about Trump.

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Sep 26, 2017 16:37:16   #
permafrost Loc: Minnesota
 
Jakebrake wrote:
I think Kaepernick's little sit down and kneeling stunt had more to do with his narcissistic nature of not being played, simply due to very poor performances and was basically riding the bench. He just couldn't stand this, so he dreams up this black lives matters bullshit to get him back in the news and stardom. Then when SF cut him and no other team signed him, he and his ilk claimed it was because he disrespected our Country, Old Glory and Veterans which could be nothing but further from the truth. For some of you low information libtoids, (rhymes with hemorrhoids) he did disrespect all of the above, but the NFL is a money making venture and Kaepernick with his sub-par mediocre play just didn't warrant him a contract. Then President Trump weighs in with "fire the sons of bitches who disrespect our country" (which many fans agree with) really fires up the libtoid base, thus making it all about Trump.
I think Kaepernick's little sit down and kneeling ... (show quote)




Which trump likes very much..

A lot of what you say could well be correct..

But based on how he played before the injury and the need the NFL has for backup QB, I would think several teams would like to grab him.. Odd to think not..

and he has no connection that I have seen with BLM, the original demo was about cop walking after shooting a black man..

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Sep 26, 2017 22:37:28   #
Kyra
 
I am not so sure you have the right idea. It is this separatist attitude that is dividing our country, and the words you spout add to the attitude. this attitude is what is tearing our country apart. We are slipping backward; we are not moving forward. We should not think there will ever be true equality. We can achieve equal respect for each other, but as far as equality goes, there is none. We should realize the only way to heal this wound we keep picking at is to start walking in the other person's shoes. Instead of these NFL players squawking about equality, they should be showing equal respect even if there is a disagreement. That is the best thing about our country. We can disagree with someone. We can disagree without disrespect too. The media needs to stop sensationalizing the whole thing. The NFL is clearly in flagrant disregard of their own rule book so maybe they should start showing respect to their own rule book and go from there. Clearly, the FREE college education lacks something fundamental, teaching how to follow rules. Oops, time to go back to school.

Chocura750 wrote:
I find it a puzzle why there are protests since blacks and other minorities are treated with respect throughout the country. There was a time not so long ago when blacks could attend games and be able to sit in a special section without being bothered by white folks. Blacks couldn't play on the field of course until relatively recently, but once they could they really took over. For some reason the only sports that blacks don't dominate in are stock car racing and golf. If blacks don't want a return to the old days they had better stop being so upperty.
I find it a puzzle why there are protests since bl... (show quote)

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Sep 26, 2017 23:46:49   #
Nickolai
 
S. Maturin wrote:
Chopped that up after I printed it out and green grass should grow on my lawn where I threw it because it is pure bullshit.








It is not BS it is true Kap has been big donor to the causes mentioned, It has been well publicized over the years

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Sep 26, 2017 23:50:52   #
Nickolai
 
sisboombaa wrote:
Great letter. Too bad Colin won't read it, or even if he was to read it, it won't do any good because he would have to admit he had been wrong. He is too arrogant and self centered to have an open mind. He won't change until he gets hurt a few times. Or maybe not even then. He will just blame his pain on someone or something else.







Kapernick has a social conscience as demonstrated by his foundation's contributions to charities. It stands to reason that he would speak out against the killings of unarmed black folk by police and getting off scott free

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Sep 27, 2017 00:08:54   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
Nickolai wrote:
Kapernick has a social conscience as demonstrated by his foundation's contributions to charities. It stands to reason that he would speak out against the killings of unarmed black folk by police and getting off scott free


He was just mad because a white guy was fielded instead of him. He's looking for affirmative action in the NFL, nothing more.

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Sep 27, 2017 02:16:57   #
America 1 Loc: South Miami
 
I look out from the top floor balcony of my building and see 3 US Flags.
1 on a 2 story bike building, 1 atop a University Health building and 1 on a flag pole.
To see that makes me proud to be a US citizen.
Wonder how the ones taking a keen would feel.
I see kids coming out of a store with a candy bar or ice cream bar with their parents.
Unwrap and toss it on the ground, the trash can within 2 feet.
No respect for for the city they live in and no respect for their fellow man.
Others are here to clean up for them.

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Sep 27, 2017 03:49:38   #
samtheyank
 
Jakebrake wrote:
Sep 24, 2017 by Frosty Wooldridge

Dear Colin Kaepernick:

Your disrespect for our country’s flag demands deeper inspection, wider understanding and greater comprehension of its significance to our nation.

Ultimately, when enough people dishonor their country, disobey its laws or do not participate in its most honored traditions—that society faces ultimate disintegration. Look at Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Pakistan, Mexico, Venezuela and other failed countries around the globe. Their people flee to Canada, America and Europe because they face the loss of the basic components of a function nation: lack of food, jobs and loss of personal freedom.

You enjoy sports hero status. You enjoy $114 million in your bank account. You enjoyed a free college education, where you took affirmative action Crip-courses because you played football. Other than play a game that produces nothing but entertainment for the masses, you haven’t produced anything of value in America.

What do I mean by that? Teachers, truck drivers, clerks, doctors, nurses, construction workers, lumber jacks, farmers, waitresses and other workers produce goods and services that make our society work. Entertainers produce nothing of value other than diversions to our workaday lives. They might be called the ‘royalty’ of America, but they don’t produce anything. Yet, many complain the loudest like Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Reiner, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Obama and you. None of them served our country. You didn’t serve your country.

Instead you’re an entertainer, but as you sit on the bench, not a very good one.

Yet, you influence millions of impressionable youth. If you realized your incredible gifts that your country bestowed upon you—you wouldn’t dishonor America with such gusto and vitriolic disrespect of our flag. To dishonor Old Glory equates to degrading our U.S. Constitution that makes your freedoms possible while you continue to produce nothing that moves our society forward. You sow seeds of disrespect and social anarchy that produce the violence perpetrated by Black Lives Matter who sing, “Kill a cop when? Now! What’s good about dead cop number 10? Dead cop number 11.”

Have you thought about contributing like Martin Luther King, U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan or other black Americans who work FOR our country?

Instead, you’ve inspired a whole generation of white and black high school football players, basketball players and baseball players to sit or kneel in disrespect of our nation’s most treasured gift—the U.S. Constitution that protects our freedoms.

You’re inspiring negatives and social anarchy in a positive country that guarantees your freedom to kneel by the blood of military veterans’ lives. Every white, black and Hispanic pro football player makes millions of dollars. Most Americans make only thousands of dollars in their lives. As a professional football you have an inspirational platform that few others can access. Compared to your fortunate status, most Americans make an average $38,000/annually as compared to the average professional football player’s $1.9 million annual salary. You make $19 million annually.

In Berkley, California, ANTIFA followers chant, “No Trump, No Wall, No USA at All!” How long can we survive that kind of message? The former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba, attempted to create the “Republic of New Afrika” by separating South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana out of the Union. Blacks only would live in those states. He died two years ago before succeeding.

If you think it’s better in Africa or China or India or Mexico or Indochina or Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Iraq or Venezuela—move to those countries for a couple of months. Venezuela right this minute suffers total societal breakdown because of guys who made choices like you. Try to make $114 million in those places. Try to find a grocery store with food! If you faced that reality, would you not get down on your knees and pray to God for your good fortune to be an American, an African-American, any American?

Reality check; in those countries, most people struggle for food and water their entire lives. In Moslem countries, they behead women, kill anyone on a dime and maintain dictatorial regimes that would toss you in jail for your actions.

In my family, my grandfather served in the U.S. Army in WWI. He got shot and lived with a limp all his life as a farmer who produced food for America’s tables. My father served as a U.S. Marine in WWII and thereafter for 27 years, but died while serving in 1964. Many members of my family served in the Navy, Air Force, Marines and Army—-as have millions of men and women over the last 240 years of our country’s existence.

When did you serve? What sacrifices have you made for America? What have you done to benefit your country other than to disrespect every military veteran man and woman who offered his or her life in order to bring freedom to every person of every color and race and background?

While many blacks, whites and Hispanics march against our country, every person of every color, every background, and under the age of 18 enjoys the freedom and privilege to a free education. Millions around the world beg, clamor and yearn for a chance to honor the American flag. Experts tell us that over 100 million people would move to America to enjoy our freedoms tomorrow if given a plane ticket.

But you dishonor our country by your actions and words. What have you done to defend America?

Answer: you’ve done nothing. But you benefited for doing nothing by the blood, sweat, tears and lives that allowed you to disrespect our flag, our heritage and our country.

From Washington to Eisenhower to Patton and every combat soldier from Valley Forge to Gettysburg to Afghanistan—they died for your freedoms. In fact, during the Civil War, over 500,000 white men died to free your forefathers from slavery. Nonetheless, slavery continues in many parts of Africa today. Slavery built the Roman Empire. But America stopped it with the blood of its citizens in 1865.

They served so spoiled brats like you could earn $114 million for doing nothing to protect, honor or defend your country. Defend and honor—or defame and despise—we each benefit because of the blood, sweat, tears and lives of other citizens. That fact alone should leave no room for disrespect of our flag, our heritage and our country.

If you win your dishonoring of America and degrade it to the point of mass disrespect and violence, what will you do when anarchy rages through the streets of America?

For every athlete making millions of dollars in the NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, PGA and NTA, your actions inspire our youth to their highest and best. For every entertainer from Meryl Streep to Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd, Madonna (who wants to blow up the White House) and even Rosie McDonnell who hates America— your words and actions influence our youth to strive in the world or tear down everything that makes our country viable. If you continue on the negatives Mr. Kaepernick, your actions inspire disrespect, violence and social upheaval that could break down America into a failed country. Then, who will protect you and how will you make your millions?

How do we stop the breakdown of our civil society by athletes and other entertainers as well as the mainstream media?

I propose mandatory two years of military service or civilian service like Ameri-Corps for every American-born man and woman, and every immigrant who comes to this country. No exceptions. We must inculcate honor and respect for our country.

We must demand education and graduation from high school for every person born or whom moves to America, to create an educated person with a mind that can think critically and act responsibly—and contributes. We must demand the pledge of allegiance to our flag in every classroom in America every day. Honorable citizenship creates a viable society.

Without it, you, Colin Kaepernick and Madonna, et al, would not be millionaires nor would you be able to disrespect our nation’s flag and our country. Ultimately Colin, we wouldn’t survive as a viable country.
Sep 24, 2017 by Frosty Wooldridge br br Dear Coli... (show quote)


Colin Kaepernick is that typical Black Man that thinks the world should wipe his Black Ass. He appreciates nothing because he knows nothing. He has an ability to throw an object around and play a game that affords him an opportunity to be wealthy. The talent will only last a few years and it will be pissed down the tubes. If the trend holds true for his type, he will loose all his money and end on the wagon of poverty. Someone will come along and interview him fifteen years from now and ask him the question what happened to Colin Kaepernick? He will answer the question that a white racist society was, and is, responsible for his ills and woes. The same philosophy will be repeated for a new generation of young Black Men. The result will be they will never rise above their circumstances of poverty and the belief of give me, give me, because you owe me.

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Sep 27, 2017 08:48:07   #
S. Maturin
 
permafrost wrote:
I have nerves of steel.... even superman envies me....Ha, ha ha....


You must be a real source of fun for your therapists.

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Sep 27, 2017 08:54:34   #
S. Maturin
 
Nickolai wrote:
It is not BS it is true Kap has been big donor to the causes mentioned, It has been well publicized over the years


So that morally-challenged moron is trying to buy his way into some higher portion of society, right? Is that it?

I know of donors who give because the recipients need the gifting.. and they do it anonymously - not as some flashy social climbing maneuver. If, however, he knows how little he actually earned of those huge sums he's having dumped upon his big bony head and he is trying to assuage his conscience, well, that would make him almost human, wouldn't it?

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Sep 27, 2017 09:05:15   #
Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO
 
samtheyank wrote:
Colin Kaepernick is that typical Black Man that thinks the world should wipe his Black Ass. He appreciates nothing because he knows nothing. He has an ability to throw an object around and play a game that affords him an opportunity to be wealthy. The talent will only last a few years and it will be pissed down the tubes. If the trend holds true for his type, he will loose all his money and end on the wagon of poverty. Someone will come along and interview him fifteen years from now and ask him the question what happened to Colin Kaepernick? He will answer the question that a white racist society was, and is, responsible for his ills and woes. The same philosophy will be repeated for a new generation of young Black Men. The result will be they will never rise above their circumstances of poverty and the belief of give me, give me, because you owe me.
Colin Kaepernick is that typical Black Man that th... (show quote)


Some African-Americans do indeed raise themselves out of the endless cycle of the welfare mentality and take charge of their own destiny, by becoming educated hard working members of society. They shed the typical stereotypical racial woe is me attitude, refrain from gang activity, attend school and become a welcome addition to the human race, whether it's an athlete, CEO, entrepreneur, entertainer, professional soldier, doctor, lawyer, or a truck driver. To these folk I hearty applaud them, however they are the exception to the rule!

What I do NOT applaud, is these multi-millionaires dis-respecting our country, National Anthem, Veterans and flag that have given them so much, for some perceived injustice dividing our country as never before, which could have been accomplished another way. As for me I shall boycott all venues that exhibit this type of behavior, and refrain from patronizing their sponsors in not purchasing their products and letting them know my displeasure through my pocket book. For me it will be NASCAR, golf, tennis, soccer, hockey or events that show patriotism, because there will not be an NFL game watched in my house, including my beloved Denver Broncos which many of them took a knee in their loss to Buffalo until they stop this nonsense!

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Sep 27, 2017 09:19:33   #
S. Maturin
 
Kyle's widow says:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/26/american-snipers-wife-taya-kyle-open-letter-to-nfl.html

"Your desire to focus on division and anger has shattered what many people loved most about the sport. Football was really a metaphor for our ideal world -- different backgrounds, talents, political beliefs and histories as one big team with one big goal -- to do well, to win, TOGETHER."

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