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

[The Lonious Monk]

https://twitter.com/SportsUnicorn/status/893199148434038784

Did she get replaced by one of the pod people or something? Was she actually defending a black athlete?

 

[So ILL]

https://twitter.com/SportsUnicorn/status/893199148434038784

Did she get replaced by one of the pod people or something? Was she actually defending a black athlete?

Lol that's what I said, that's what makes him resisting what she's saying so irritating smh.

 

[Copper]

Wtf Marcellus?

These talking tv niggas going above and beyond to push a narrative that there is no racism.

Starting to look like niggas are just as much as a problem as racists whites

Way too many monkey niggas out here

 

[buddyro]

After seeing jim brown start trippin last year seems like Kareem and bill Russell the only real ogs left

How did Jim Brown trip? Isn't he still community work like he's done for decades?

Jim Brown is a buck dancer fuck him.

 

[Like Water]

https://twitter.com/SportsUnicorn/status/893199148434038784

A white girl telling a black man what's up and him arguing against facts is depressing as fuck. Marcellus on there looking like a Coon Deluxe smh.

You can look at her face and tell in the back of her head, she was like

I swear I was watching the video like...

... I'm still so confused by what happened. Has Marcellus always been in the sunken place, or is this a recent development?

 

[So ILL]

https://twitter.com/SportsUnicorn/status/893199148434038784

A white girl telling a black man what's up and him arguing against facts is depressing as fuck. Marcellus on there looking like a Coon Deluxe smh.

You can look at her face and tell in the back of her head, she was like

I swear I was watching the video like...

... I'm still so confused by what happened. Has Marcellus always been in the sunken place, or is this a recent development?

I don't know, but that shit is sad. Maybe that CTE is worse than we thought, he did play for a minute.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Marcellus is back and forth. Sometimes he's on the right side. Sometimes he isn't. There doesn't really seem to be much rhyme or reason for the stances he takes.

 

[Koltrain]

Smh...These niggas out here lost...

 

[Koltrain]

Marcellus is "staying in his place"

 

[aneed123]

I'm telling u they pay these niggas on tv a check to go against the cause... niggas put money above they soul.... all of a sudden 3 niggas from the hood who onbtgv weiyh a platform talking all coonish... this shit is orchestrated

 

[stringer bell]

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...l-miami-dolphins-now-feared-need-surgery-knee

Sources: Fear now Tannehill will need surgery

The Miami Dolphins now fear quarterback Ryan Tannehill will need season-ending knee surgery, however no decision to have it has been made at this time, according to sources close to the situation.

As second and third opinions await, Tannehill still could decide to rest it for six to eight weeks and try to come back from his knee injury again, sources said.

But the Dolphins are growing increasingly concerned that surgery will be the most viable and likely option as they and their starting quarterback sift through them.

"He's done, I think," one source predicted Thursday night, referring to Tannehill's hopes of returning this season.

But nothing is final, and options still are on the table.

Tannehill must decide whether he wants to wait at least six weeks to let the knee heal and take another shot at playing this year, or go ahead and have the surgery, which would end his season.

The Dolphins recognize they might have to step in and recommend the surgery that Tannehill has avoided since he initially injured the knee last December against Arizona.

One source said Thursday that, because Tannehill did not repair his partially torn ACL during the offseason, his knee was "a ticking time bomb that was going to go off at any time."

It happened Thursday, on a noncontact play, when Tannehill crumbled to the ground while scrambling in practice.

Tannehill underwent an MRI, and now the Dolphins know they will be without him for at least a significant amount of time, and quite possibly the season.

In addition, sources told ESPN's Josina Anderson that Colin Kaepernick's name has been brought up within the Dolphins' front office as potential insurance at the position. Miami owner Steve Ross has shown in recent years to be very open-minded regarding social issues, defending the choices of some Dolphins players last season when they decided to join Kaepernick by taking a knee during the national anthem. Gase, too, is known as a player's coach willing to maintain an open mind on off-the-field beliefs.

 

[Swiffness!]

idk what you expecting from these smartdumb niggas that reject quantifiable evidence

I mean yeah if you think the earth is literally fucking flat is it such a leap to think racism isn't real? lol

I'm so glad I gave up on First Take years ago.

 

[5onblackhandside]

I'm currently deployed wit da Navy while at work i over heard some mayonnaise eating mafucka laughing and talking out loud about how da Ravens now maybe the Dolphins was looking to pick up Kapernick. He was saying no NFL should pick him up for disrespecting the national anthem.

I said what da fuck did Kap do wrong exactly? Taking a bow for the injustices of black folk is wrong? I said da same thing about if he took a knee for faggots he would be applauded and nobody would really be upset or give a fuck about him doing it. But since he took a knee during the national anthem for black folk nobody gives a fuck about our rights/social injustices huh?

I'm enlisted and work in area where there is more officers than enlisted and majority white folk i never really talk to anyone deez mafuckas always ask me if i'm ok I just be lookin mad for my entire shift, lol. After i spoke my mind nobody said shit them people of mayo was all quiet after for like 20 mins. Guess they felt awkward or some shit, IDGAF!

I only got about 2 yrs left and i cant wait to get the fuck out the Navy!

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/NFLDrafter/status/893190763990745089
https://twitter.com/NFLDrafter/status/893191021638557696
https://twitter.com/NFLDrafter/status/893191329122889728

Smh...

 

[blackamerica]

https://twitter.com/SportsUnicorn/status/893199148434038784

Did she get replaced by one of the pod people or something? Was she actually defending a black athlete?

Cant front. i HATED this bitch ever since her mayweather domestic abuse debacle. She just earned a little respect back. Remember Sage Steele? Beadle spoke more truth about race (in one segment) than Steele has in her whole career at espn.

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/realclearsports/status/893551737239425024
https://twitter.com/alaboutsports/status/893540560606289921

 

[Trillfate]

https://twitter.com/SportsUnicorn/status/893199148434038784

Nah fuck beadle

 

[Trillfate]

I'm currently deployed wit da Navy while at work i over heard some mayonnaise eating mafucka laughing and talking out loud about how da Ravens now maybe the Dolphins was looking to pick up Kapernick. He was saying no NFL should pick him up for disrespecting the national anthem.

I said what da fuck did Kap do wrong exactly? Taking a bow for the injustices of black folk is wrong? I said da same thing about if he took a knee for faggots he would be applauded and nobody would really be upset or give a fuck about him doing it. But since he took a knee during the national anthem for black folk nobody gives a fuck about our rights/social injustices huh?

I'm enlisted and work in area where there is more officers than enlisted and majority white folk i never really talk to anyone deez mafuckas always ask me if i'm ok I just be lookin mad for my entire shift, lol. After i spoke my mind nobody said shit them people of mayo was all quiet after for like 20 mins. Guess they felt awkward or some shit, IDGAF!

I only got about 2 yrs left and i cant wait to get the fuck out the Navy!

@5onblackhandside u should find that cac and educate him on his disrespectful national anthem. Tell him it was written by a slave owner and the 3rd verse mentioned killing runaway slaves.

 

[stringer bell]

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/m...ues-racist-attack-on-colin-kaepernick-9552138

Miami Herald Sportswriter Continues His Racist Attacks on Colin Kaepernick

Black athletes who have fought for civil rights have always taken a huge hit. In 1967, Muhammad Ali convened the famed "Ali Summit" in Cleveland, a gathering of black superstars who were opposed to the Vietnam War, including basketball's Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and football's Jim Brown. Ali's manager, Herbert Muhammad, begged Ali not to oppose the draft because the backlash would kill the boxer's earning potential. Sports officials had already threatened to revoke Ali's boxing license.

Such is the tradition of civil rights activism in sports. But Miami Herald sportswriter Armando Salguero apparently needs a refresher course on this history, because today he added yet another entry into America's proud tradition of attacking outspoken black athletes. Salguero used more column inches today to badmouth Colin Kaepernick, the free-agent NFL quarterback who is transparently being blackballed from the league for his outspoken Black Lives Matter advocacy.

This week, after Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill suffered a gnarly-looking knee injury that will likely sideline him for weeks or months, multiple sportswriters — including the Herald's Greg Cote, New Times resident sports expert Ryan Yousefi, and, yes, Uncle Luke himself — have suggested the Dolphins pick up Kap.

The very suggestion apparently sent Salguero into a blind rage, which he channeled into a remarkably dumb column. This is a good time to note that a study released in April showed that being angry at football players for protesting the National Anthem was a strong indicator of racism.

The sports world is full of arm-chair quarterbacks, arm-chair coaches, even arm-chair general managers.

Some folks are no doubt advocating the Dolphins move forward immediately to putting Tannehill under the scalpel and signing free agent Colin Kaepernick.

So sign the captain of chaos?

The face of a movement that turned off tons of NFL fans last year?

The Fidel Castro sympathizer?

In Miami?

Only someone who is tone deaf or bankrupt of wisdom could think giving police officers, the military, Cuban-American exiles and other folks who respect the flag a raised middle finger is a great idea. I hope the Dolphins don’t believe that.

Let's tackle this one line-by-line:

"The face of a movement that turned off tons of NFL fans last year?"

There's very little hard data on how many people the protests "turned off." But if an athlete stands up, says "I would like police to stop shooting black people and getting away with it," and your response is anger at that athlete, maybe the problem is you.

"The Fidel Castro sympathizer? In Miami?"

This is the only fair point in the column. Fidel was a brutal dictator, and Kaepernick's answers about why he wore a Castro shirt were lame. But Salguero's columns bashing Kaepernick for wearing the Fidel shirt are full of internal contradictions: notably, the U.S. criminal justice system is barbaric to black people, incarcerates people at an even higher rate than Cuba, and was explicitly used by federal officials to arrest innocent black people. Salguero seems to do cartwheels to avoid talking about this and just focus on Castro's repression in a vacuum.

Salguero has written repeatedly about how proud he is to live in a nation where people can criticize politicians — but now that Kaepernick is actually using that right, Salguero wants the quarterback to shut up. Moreover: Kaepernick wore a Castro shirt only once. It was a hypocritical move, sure, but Castroism isn't a central part of this dude's ethos.

"Only someone who is tone deaf or bankrupt of wisdom could think giving police officers, the military, Cuban-American exiles and other folks who respect the flag a raised middle finger is a great idea."

Listen, it's not hard to have a basic amount of empathy for people who say they've felt disrespected by "police officers and the military" their entire lives. Salguero is just choosing not to and instead demanding black people swear unflinching loyalty to a law enforcement community that many feel is disrespecting them.

This is far from Salguero's first column badmouthing black-rights advocacy in sports. Last September, he wrote a column about how the Dolphins players who joined Kaepernick's National Anthem protest should be ashamed.

"Christians don't take knees on Sunday in protest," Salguero tweeted. He later argued he was responding to then-running back Arian Foster's comparison to "kneeling in church," but the tweet certainly didn't come off that way, and it's still gross that "good Christians" apparently can't fight racism on Sundays in Salguero's mind.

But the public largely missed a 1,000-plus-word screed Salguero posted that same day — September 11, 2016 — delineating every unnecessary thought he's ever had about the 9/11 attacks, patriotism, and black people's interactions with police. Some excerpts:

Those murderers, you see, killed white Americans. black Americans. Asian Americans. Hispanic Americans. They killed Christian Americans. Jewish Americans. Muslim Americans, Hindu Americans. Those murders killed in the name of their god some Americans who believed there is no God.

We all felt loss. We all grieved.

And in the aftermath of that attack, in the wake of our shared grief, there was a palpable unity throughout this land. There was suddenly in this troubled and divided country something bigger and more important than ourselves that brought us all together for a short time.

Americans had been attacked. Killed. Murdered.

We didn't delineate. We didn't hyphenate. All of those victims were simply Americans to us.

And suddenly the fabric of a country woven by people from different lands, political parties, colors, ethnicities and religious bents seemed to pull tighter. America was strengthened.

Where has that gone? What happened to that America?

So 9/11 was apparently good somehow?

 

[stringer bell]

Today is Sept. 11, 2016. It is the anniversary of that fateful, memorable, sad, emotional day. And today the NFL will kick off another season.

And because the NFL is now so much a part of what America is, it suffers violent convulsions to its inner core much the same way the country does. In that regard, the NFL is very much like America. The NFL, our national sport, is uniquely American.

The NFL's most important employees — its players — are predominantly black. Yes, there are other races and peoples represented in the NFL ranks, but let us agree black men dominate the NFL on the field if not yet in the board rooms and owners' suites.

And because so many of the league's biggest stars come from a portion of our society that has unquestionably seen violence perpetrated on people that look like them, there is outrage in locker rooms across the NFL as there is outrage in black households across America.

That cannot be diminished. That cannot be dismissed. That is a troubling fact of life in today's America.

So something needs to happen for that needless killing of a people to stop.

I don't have the answer for stopping the killing of some black people at the hands of some police.

The President, who is black, also doesn't have the answer. The Federal Justice Department, headed by a black woman, has not brought one indictment on any officer, deeming every shooting it has so far investigated as lawful so that department also does not have an answer. The black district attorney in Baltimore who failed to get even one conviction of the officers that arrested Freddie Gray on the day he died while in custody obviously does not have the answer.

This is an argument divorced from reality. Salguero basically looks at endemic police violence and justice-system corruption and says ¯\_(?)_/¯.

In fact, there have long been ideas about how to stop police violence, and Black Lives Matter activists, politicians, Barack Obama, and even Kaepernick have spoken about those ideas extensively. They don't get implemented because police unions are extremely powerful entities and because people like Salguero get up in arms whenever anyone tries to fix things.

And, sorry to say it, but it is the truth, no NFL player wearing any uniform today has the answer for solving this obvious issue. And no NFL player is going to fix the problem today.

It.

Simply.

Ain't.

Happening.

Today.

No matter what.

There is nothing any NFL player in or out of uniform today will be able to say or do that will address the issue of some rogue policeman shooting somebody to the point a solution for that problem is found. Can we agree on that?

No, you rube.

No amount of protesting today will fix the problem. No amount of speaking about the issue at press conferences afterward games today will fix the problem. No amount of symbolic gestures today will fix this problem.

And yet, somewhere around this league, it is likely that some NFL player will think it incumbent upon himself to make a gesture, or not stand for the national anthem, or make some other personal protest to bring awareness to the issue.

I have news for those who think that way: That will not bring any good awareness to your cause. None.

Any NFL player using today to protest by somehow disrespecting the flag, the country, his team or some of his fans will be doing the cause he holds dear a disservice.

Why?

I can tell you that the united post-Sept. 11 America of 2001 no longer exists. We are a divided country one again. We are divided on issues of race, politics, religion, abortion, sexuality, gender, you name it. And we are united on the idea that police are systematically targeting black people for elimination or, at the very least, different treatment than whites.

So was 9/11 good or bad? You'll have to help us out here, Armando.

So was 9/11 good or bad? You'll have to help us out here, Armando.

But that's far from the extent of his singular focus on Kaepernick. Salguero has taken every opportunity to bash the quarterback on Twitter since Kaepernick began protesting last year