49er QB Kaepernick sits out national anthem to protest treatment of blacks — and the bigots go insan

Racists remarks to prove racism isn't a thing?Great Job America.

 

That last one is good lol. So he sits and does not stand. Again that is a pretty mild form of protest.

Even Ghandi took it much farther than that. What are people so upset about?




He was obviously raised right. His white parents and siblings must be very proud of his biracial self.


*just trying to inject a little humor in such a thread littered with people's hate(the tweets).*

 

So now they are blaming his new girlfriend saying she is a muslim supporter and has 'influenced' him and all. smh.
All because he sat during the playing of our (crappy and awful) anthem. smh. I realized that I never stand during the playing of that thing either-I guess I am anti-American too.

 

I'm not surprised at all over this shit. In fact it's getting real old REAL fast. Muhf$kaz can't take a shit anymore without people gettin' in their feelings about it. I remember when I was in maybe the 3rd or 4th grade, and decided I was no longer going to stand up at the start of class for the Pledge of Allegiance (a practice that thankfully was phased out anyways by the time I was in middle school) and my {white} classmates, as well as the "House Nigg@z" 'bout took a shit on themselves. The teacher never said anything, if she did I don't remember.

This just goes to show, racism will NEVER end. Not in this country and probably not in any other. Black/Brown can't do SHIT without SOMEONE finding issue with it.

P.S. There are plenty of black folk criticizing him as well. You know "Red Bone" and "High Yella" don't count toward the Black/Brown Cause, for a lot of "folk".

 

^^ well if will/has been getting better. Things are better than 30 years ago, and that was better than 30 years before that. It is like homophobia will never end either-it is about getting better, not eradication.

And yeah, I have seen the 'he ain't even black and he called a black player a n@@@@r back when...." smh. I am looking at that stuff now. Back in the day whites really did a number on blacks with the colorism shit didn't we? And now most of us don't give a shit about that- we see' black' and are cool with it or not. I have never ever heard a white person talk about 'high yellow' or 'redbone' or 'caramel, mocha, cafe-au-lait', etc.

 

Some of ppl responses realy surprised me especially from some the Caucasian sportsmen (athletes, coaches etc). Could you imagine if Muhammad Ali were living in this time period. Or say Tommie Smith, John Carlos who did the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. They would def have a field day with Muhammad Ali today. People seem to forget history easily. Its interesting that Kalpernick is so vocal on social issues but Cam is contemporary damn near avoids it.

 

One interesting thing about the 1968 incident is that much of the official focus was not on what they did, but the thing they wore. The (either NZ or Aussie) guy who won the bronze wore the same damn thing-and had no consequences for it.

(I forget what the exact thing they wore was)

 

Interesting bit of information..

The decision of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stop standing for the national anthem has provoked a lot of debate, to say the least. It’s also re-opened a discussion about whether "The Star-Spangled Banner" is actually racist.

Most people don’t know there’s more than one verse to the national anthem, and it’s the third that’s a doozy.

Francis Scott Key wrote his famous poem, "The Defence of Fort McHenry," after witnessing the failure of the British assault on the fort, which guarded Baltimore during the War of 1812.

Key wrote four verses. The argument about racism centers on his little-known third stanza:



The language is definitely archaic and seems a little confusing unless you know the context.

“Essentially,” says writer and academic Jason Johnson, “Francis Scott Key was happy to see former slaves, who had joined the British as part of their Colonial Marines, getting slaughtered and killed as they attempted to take Baltimore.”

Johnson is an associate professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore, and has a piece in online magazine The Root on this issue.

“The entire song sort of leads up to this point,” Johnson adds, “where he’s essentially saying to these terrible, ungrateful, black people, this is the consequence of standing up against the United States.”
“So it’s clearly racist; it’s clearly pro-slavery, but it’s pretty much in line with the kind of man that Francis Scott Key was.”

Key was a typical white Marylander of his time, and he favored slavery.

About 6,000 African Americans fled to the British during the War of 1812, on the promise of freedom. Most of the men were recruited into the Royal Navy or into the Colonial Marines, a mostly black unit, which fought with distinction.

“It was an amazing opportunity for African Americans to fight for their freedom,” says Johnson

He points out that Key himself faced the black Colonial Marines in battle. His unit was beaten and humiliated by them.

“His troops were slaughtered so aggressively,” Johnson says, “that he had to run home and hide in Washington DC. ... So this was personal for him."
Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem

 

Tell me about it. Everyone wants to be outraged about shit that ultimately had no effect on their daily lives. Since the Panthers, Black Muslims, etc. were at their height when I was in grammar school, and black kids were a decided minority in my neighborhood, me and the few other black boys were always making up funny shit under our breath in assembly, such as "God Bless My Underwear /drawers that I love", or what now seems like me to as an adult a violent version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic for a 2nd grader ("Glory, Glory, Hallulejah / white teacher hit me with a ruler / shot her from behind with a Colt 45 / and she ain't gonna teach anymore"). If we got caught singing those silly little kid ditties nowadays the reaction would be outsized.

As for the color thing, I think sometimes light skin people get more radical because white society lets them in JUST a little bit more than darker brothers but then reminds them "black is black." The darker ones of us adjust quicker because we already know what time it is. The ones like Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell et al get religion and then react to the rejection.

 

I just find it funny how Tomi Lahren can be so anti-black, but use black people as her come-up. Let's keep it one-hundred, the only time people are checking for her flat ass (see picture below) is when she's spewing her vitriol about black folks who are speaking out against injustice. Outside of that, she's irrelevant and she knows this. She's found her niche to fame and is milking it for everything it's worth.

Now on to this picture...


Seriously, where's this girl's ass at?!?!

I mean come on, you got a nose job, dyed your hair blonde, and are out here lying about your age (you really think people believe your 22?). You could at least be consistent and finish the dumb blonde look with plastic tits and ass. You're sitting in hard ass office chairs all damn day, so I know you need the cushioning.

 

2016 is certainly the year of fake outrage, from all ends really.

Spoiler: Also, Trump

really set the tone for this year too, that's why I find him so fascinating. (Yup, first time I expressed a SLIGHT political view on here)

 

She is probably of the 'can't be too rich or too thin' white girl line. I would imagine for most white girls boob jobs would come before ass-many white girls still have a 'thing' about not having too big of an ass. Ass is just not as important to white straight men as it appears to black straight men. Tits are important though.

 

I stumbled across the article below and it perhaps sheds some light on why more athletes aren't like Kaepernick and don't voice their opinions about certain current events. I always thought it was because they just didn't care, not that what's being called "paid patriotism" or the Pentagon paying sports teams to stage patriotic events to increase military enrollment.

Why don't more athletes speak out? They don't feel like they can.

Excerpt:
Policing is clearly one of the most divisive issues in the country -- except in the sports arena, where the post-9/11 hero narrative has been so deeply embedded within its game-day fabric that policing is seen as clean, heroic, uncomplicated. Following the marketing strategy of the military, police advocacy organizations have partnered with teams from all four major leagues to host "Law Enforcement Appreciation" nights, or similar events. This year 27 of the 29 U.S.-based MLB teams will host games in which portions of ticket proceeds will go to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Teams from all four major leagues are already partnered with GovX, a third-party vendor that provides ticket discounts to veterans and first responders -- as long as they register with the company, which in turn collects their data and sells them, among other things, discounted military gear and supplies. Despite attempts by Congress to discourage the practice, the Department of Defense continues to militarize sports as a place to recruit soldiers, and until recently teams continued to take millions of taxpayer dollars to stage events like surprise military homecomings, allowing fans to believe these for-profit setups are selfless expressions of patriotism on the part of the home team.


Nobody seems to care much about this authoritarian shift at the ballpark, yet the media and the public are quick to demand accountability from players they consider insufficiently activist. They blame these black players for not speaking up on behalf of their communities, ignoring the smothering effect that staged patriotism and cops singing the national anthem in a time of Ferguson have on player expression. It's indirectly stifled, while the increasing police pageantry at games sends another clear message: The sentiments of the poor in Ferguson and Cleveland do not matter. Several NYPD supporters mocked Garner's grieving family by wearing T-shirts reading "I Can Breathe," then mocked activists with "Blue Lives Matter" slogans, as if police, more powerful than ever, were disenfranchised.

While athletes are routinely criticized for "not doing more," it is conveniently ignored how deeply their employers have mobilized against the most powerless elements of their fan base. The athlete who stands up for the black community, as Rams receiver Kenny Britt did for Ferguson two years ago, risks the rages of the white public, being called "anti-police," just as the player disagreeing with the Middle East wars risks being called unpatriotic, because it is apparently impossible to be both anti-war and pro-soldier.

Maybe the increased politicizing of sports makes it even more critical for the game's most powerful athletes to stand up, for in a world of a billion workers, they are the tiny handful of irreplaceable employees. Equally important, however, is for the public to recognize how much its values are being used for profit, and to acknowledge how the basic idea of going to a game to escape a complicated world for just a few hours has been manipulated into a distant memory.

 

Agreed...

 

Props to DJ Nessa. I'm just waiting for the rest of these fools to stand up.