Appropriate Response to Colin Kaepernick

Wow, there are really people so completely trailer park trash that they point to such a trailer part trash video as a point of pride? Holy smokes!

old guy 70 wrote:

I think we are really fortunate to live in this Country, but it is not perfect.

For many of us (old geezers) who experienced the unrest of the sixties the American Flag came to represent intolerance.

Many on the right had bumper stickers of the American flag over the words "America Love It or Leave It!"

Those of us with beards and long hair were threatened and intimidated daily by these clowns.

I would be more impressed with someone like Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck taking a stand like this. Colin Kaepernick is just a punk who lacks any credibility.

Extraordinary athletic success has no correlation with credibility.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Calling Kaepernick a "halfbreed" is about as low-brow and idiotic as it gets. We're all genetically pretty mixed up. There's more genetic admixture within the black African racial group than within all other racial groups combined. So, technically, some dark-skinned black guy in Congo could be a "halfbreed" or "multi-breed" or whatever just as much as Kaepernick. Or maybe this makes Kap a multi-breed. Egads! Point is, it's just a stupid way to try to insult someone.

As for his not saluting the flag, I don't see playing the national anthem and raising the flag and other overt shows of nationalism and patriotism are even a part of sporting events. I'm open to ideas, but can anyone cogently explain what the Super Bowl or a basketball game between Iona and UC Irvine has to do with our national theme song (other than the obvious, that it takes place in the U.S., the logic of which would demand that the national anthem to be played on your way to the bathroom, as you settle down to your nightly viewing of pornhub, etc.)?

What I think it boils down to is a circular logic: We do because we've done it for a long time. We attach importance to it because it's important. Etc.

Given this, I guess I wouldn't take the approach Kap has taken. It's pretty simple-minded, in fact. But he's entitled to his critique. America is a discordant democratic cacophony, not a harmony of jack boots. Dissent has often been the means by which this nation has evolved.

Murder Dubs wrote:

Calling Kaepernick a "halfbreed" is about as low-brow and idiotic as it gets. We're all genetically pretty mixed up. There's more genetic admixture within the black African racial group than within all other racial groups combined. So, technically, some dark-skinned black guy in Congo could be a "halfbreed" or "multi-breed" or whatever just as much as Kaepernick. Or maybe this makes Kap a multi-breed. Egads! Point is, it's just a stupid way to try to insult someone.

Agreed.

Indeed, it would be a stupid way to try to insult someone regardless of how "genetically mixed up" everyone is.

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Calling Kaepernick a "halfbreed" is about as low-brow and idiotic as it gets. It's just a stupid way to try to insult someone.

How very politically correct of you. Not surprising however

Silent-majority wrote:

https://youtu.be/-HkMmL4EC7o

Colin Kaepernick is a typical halfbreed democrat piece of trash.

*I don't see WHY playing the national anthem and raising the flag and other overt shows of nationalism and patriotism are even a part of sporting events*

Yet you and other simpletons feel compelled to overreact. I wonder why?

Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:

Extraordinary athletic success has no correlation with credibility.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Screaming meanie wrote:

Yet you and other simpletons feel compelled to overreact. I wonder why?

Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:

Extraordinary athletic success has no correlation with credibility.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Where is this overreaction?

Silent-majority wrote:

Colin Kaepernick is a typical halfbreed democrat piece of trash.

Oh look, a blatantly racist conservative. Never seen one of those before...

Appropriate Response to Colin Kaepernick :

Who the hell cares

Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:

Extraordinary athletic success has no correlation with credibility.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Is this a statistic you made up in your head, or is there actually legitimate data to support it?

Silly goofs,

He is failing at what he does,

So his publicist told him to do something to get in the news....

It's so kardashian, sorry you don't see it.

The Gallant Pig Man wrote:

Oh look, a blatantly racist conservative. Never seen one of those before...

Oh look, someone doesn't know what racist means nor do they seem to know much about democrats or conservatives

cool kid wrote:

Appropriate Response to Colin Kaepernick :

Who the hell cares

Exactly. He wants attention and also hopes he gets benched so he doesn't have to play.

He has the right to free speech but now he gets to live with the consequences of opening his mouth. By the way, there is probably no worse way for African Americans to advance their grievances than by insulting our nation and those who fought and died for that flag.

just so you guys know, the national anthem was composed/written by a pro-slavery guy who said that his only problem with slavery is that the masters dont treat the slaves as nicely as they should but blacks are still an inferior race.

kvkv wrote:

Oh look, someone doesn't know what racist means nor do they seem to know much about democrats or conservatives

Racist

noun

1.

a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.

synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacist More

adjective

1.

having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.

Please explain to me how calling someone a "halfbreed" is not the textbook definition of racist.

The problems he is protesting are real problems, but he is going about it in an entirely wrong way that alienates people instead of convincing them do anything about the problems.

And OP's immediate resort to a racial slur is a good example of some of those problems.