Colin Kaepernick refuses “to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people”...

[ineedpussy]

https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/770349331102793728

His true feelings..
https://twitter.com/CoachJim4UM/status/770347232923189252

And now the backtracking..
https://twitter.com/BSO/status/770339088800948224
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/770347374803841028
https://twitter.com/theNFLchick/status/770349744921116676

A pandering college coach? Nahhh lol.

I can't wait until these niggas smarten up and start committing to black colleges out of high school. Hell, at least the coaches know their struggle as black men at the end of the day.

i would love if black atheletes went to hbcu's but we dont own none of them so were fucked. i wanted this but black folks dont own shit

 

[So ILL]

https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/770349331102793728

His true feelings..
https://twitter.com/CoachJim4UM/status/770347232923189252

And now the backtracking..
https://twitter.com/BSO/status/770339088800948224
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/770347374803841028
https://twitter.com/theNFLchick/status/770349744921116676

A pandering college coach? Nahhh lol.

I can't wait until these niggas smarten up and start committing to black colleges out of high school. Hell, at least the coaches know their struggle as black men at the end of the day.

i would love if black atheletes went to hbcu's but we dont own none of them so were fucked. i wanted this but black folks dont own shit

True, but it would create and strengthen the mindset to fuck with each other in our communities more.

 

[playmaker88]

Maybe I'm outta pocket and no disrespect to the vets here but ain't no soldier ever died for me. I know he can't push it that far but fuck what these niggas talking about

We all gotta choose our own path, soldiers chose theirs. I'm appalled at the arrogance of anybody implying they died and fought for my imaginary freedom.

I say this all the time props to any military member who served honorably.. but fighting for MY rights never happned

 

[stringer bell]

http://kron4.com/2016/08/29/alameda...arterback-colin-kaepernick-to-police-academy/

Alameda County Sheriff’s Office invites 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to police academy

ALAMEDA COUNTY (KRON) — The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has invited San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to the police academy in response to his comments against police in America.

“You can become a cop in six months, and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist, that’s insane,“ Kaepernick said during a postgame interview over the weekend.

The sheriff’s office is inviting Kaepernick to its Sheriff’s Office Regional Training Center:

We would like to cordially invite you to the Alameda County Regional Training Center (RTC) in Dublin, CA. The RTC is currently in session hosting our 156th and 157th basic police academies. In addition to the academy, we train thousands of law enforcement officers from throughout the state and country in all aspects of our profession, including use of force. We have a specially designed Use of Force simulator that puts officers in situations where they must make split second decisions on what actions to take. In addition, we invite you to meet with our current academies and veteran officers to talk to them about their experiences and yours.

We hope that you will take this opportunity to meet with a new generation of law enforcement officers and have an open dialogue.

This comes after Kaepernick is facing tons of controversy after not standing up for the national anthem during preseason games.

The county pigs want Kap to go to a pig propaganda academy...

 

[Copper]

Every white is commenting on his paychecks and his parents but none has commented or disproved his stance on the murders of black men and women that go unpunished.....

Whites are offended by black people wanting justice

And “oil your joints" and “shuffle shoes" got me weak

 

[Copper]

“The irony is that Kapernick's right to stand or not stand is what the flag stands for and what our soldiers fought for. I don't remember any lingo about liberty and justice for all, as long as you do what we want the way that we want."

 

[So ILL]

Every white is commenting on his paychecks and his parents but none has commented or disproved his stance on the murders of black men and women that go unpunished.....

Whites are offended by black people wanting justice

And “oil your joints" and “shuffle shoes" got me weak

They're steady bringing up his money like Oprah's billionaire-ass didn't get racial profiled at a department store a few years back. Money doesn't change how racists think of you, it doesn't have shit to do with what Kap is talking about.

 

[blackrain]

https://twitter.com/JerryRice/status/770451825921105920

 

[Plutarch]

Serious, possibly dumb question for clarification purposes: honestly, can someone tell me what is actually being disrespected when people say that he's disrespecting the flag?

 

[D0wn]

Every white is commenting on his paychecks and his parents but none has commented or disproved his stance on the murders of black men and women that go unpunished.....

Whites are offended by black people wanting justice

And “oil your joints" and “shuffle shoes" got me weak

They're steady bringing up his money like Oprah's billionaire-ass didn't get racial profiled at a department store a few years back. Money doesn't change how racists think of you, it doesn't have shit to do with what Kap is talking about.

Or the disrespect Obama get by other global leaders... despite being president of the free world.

 

[So ILL]

Serious, possibly dumb question for clarification purposes: honestly, can someone tell me what is actually being disrespected when people say that he's disrespecting the flag?

My guess is that their self-entitlement is being disrespected. Its the only thing I can think of considering that a few veterans have come out in support of Kap.

 

[Qiv_Owan]

Salute

Packers all day tho

I wonder if them crackers put a bounty on his injury this year, he better work on his jukin and his O-line better block

 

[Recaptimus_Prime360]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucJlLDEQlY

Cot Damn Ali wit that ether VENOM!

 

[eastbay510]

https://twitter.com/JerryRice/status/770451825921105920

Smh. Jerry my favorite football player ever but this shit disappoints me to see.

Anybody expressing anger about the flag and not the issues Kaepernick brought up is a clown

 

[Swiffness!]

Awwwwww why'd it have to be Jerry tho

I was avoiding this thread but that tweet got me sick. This nigga just gave all those cacs cover.

 

[Copper]

Serious, possibly dumb question for clarification purposes: honestly, can someone tell me what is actually being disrespected when people say that he's disrespecting the flag?

The white people who are upset

 

[eastbay510]

Serious, possibly dumb question for clarification purposes: honestly, can someone tell me what is actually being disrespected when people say that he's disrespecting the flag?

Nothing is being disrespected it's just a cop out for people to ignore the actual issues he's protesting against.

You'd think he pissed on or burned the flag the way some people are acting. He's simply choosing not to stand.

 

[LordZuko]

I dont know if this has been posted or not...
http://www.theroot.com/articles/his...hidden-racist-history-of-the-national-anthem/

Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem

Spoiler

Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can recite “America, F–k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.” “Yankee Doodle”? No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”? More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song. Most black folks don’t even know “the black national anthem.” (There’s a great story about Bill Clinton being at an NAACP meeting where he was the only one who knew it past the first line. Bill Clinton: Woke in the ’90s.)

In the case of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” perhaps not knowing the full lyrics is a good thing. It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon, and you would be wise to cut it from your Fourth of July playlist.

“The Star-Spangled Banner,” as most Americans know it, is only a couple of lines. In fact, if you look up the song on Google, only the most famous lyrics pop up on Page 1:

Oh say can you see,

By the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hailed,

At the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars,

Through the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched,

Were so gallantly streaming.

And thy rocket’s red glare,

Thy bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through thee night,

That our flag was still there.

Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,

O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

The story, as most of us are told, is that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 and wrote this poem while watching the American troops battle back the invading British in Baltimore. That—as is the case with 99 percent of history that is taught in public schools and regurgitated by the mainstream press—is less than half the story.

To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time.

Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in.

All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1815, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very black folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds. The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved.

A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1815. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,

That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion

A home and a Country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.

To hear more of the story, there is an excellent short documentary about the history of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by some students at Morgan State University. In the meantime, it might be a good idea to switch up your Fourth of July patriotic playlist.

Jason Johnson, Political Editor at The Root, is a professor of Political Science at Morgan State's School of Global Journalism and Communications and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera International, Fox Business News and SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio. Follow him on Twitter.

Kap is real for what he is doing.

This also proves that Christianity is bullshit and no black person should be following that faith. The fuck is Christian kindness?

It's amazing that with everything mentioned in that article that's what you decided to zero in on smh...

I read the whole thing but that is a part of the oppression that people seem to ignore. That is also a larger issue as the National Anthem is just a song, while Christianity speaks to mental slavery.

All religions are mental slavery.

Sig worthy

 

[Plutarch]

Yeah, I guess it's just somewhat hard for me to believe that so many people can be that stupid/disingenuous. Fake outrage is real.

Anybody expressing anger about the flag and not the issues Kaepernick brought up is a clown

Word. Reminds me of how (white) people were mad at Spike Lee for the ending of Do the Right Thing, but Spike flipped it around told them that they had missed the entire point of the movie and that their outrage about the riot instead of the fact that a young black man died at the hands of the police basically proved his point about White America not caring about black lives.

 

[Recaptimus_Prime360]

Cot damn he ain't had to call him Optimus Prime tho. Lol!!