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Perhaps. Or they believe they should be protesting those they have a problem with like City Hall or the Police station. There's plenty of stupid going around on both sides including those telling people what they shouldn't be offended by.
I'm fine with people being offended by it but I find some a bit of an overreaction and plenty of it hypocritical.
I do too. Quite hypocritical that many screaming about people exercising their free speech right are complaining about the complainers exercising theirs.
Yep. And those offended by it are the ones always making fun of people who are offended by everything. Funny how that works. About as smart as giving credit to Trump for the market but then blaming Obama for the drop even though neither are responsible. It's all a bunch of childish nonsense.
They sought text messages an emails.... Don't you have to have a warrant to obtain those?
You don't have to, if they give them up willingly. And if not, law enforcement needs a warrant, civil claimants need a subpoena, which was likely easy to obtain.
Hey, I'm one of those who would have told you back in December that Kaepernick was a much better QB than Nick Foles. Kudos to Foles for proving me wrong- I always liked the guy, and he made me super happy on Sunday.
they also don't give players looks because they smoke dope, smack a woman, break team rules, are a distraction to the team etc etc etc
KP said that in March of 2017.
I know when he said it ..... still the fact remains Kap can't kneel and protest before games because he doesn't play - he still doesn't play.
Kaep never released or made a "I'm not kneeling anymore" statement. That was a false report by Jason La Canfora that he later retracted.
He will be lucky if he is remembered in a 30 for 30 on ESPN or maybe an answer in a future edition of trivia pursuit.squistion said:
Not really.Stealthycat said:
"It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn."
He's a symbol of something intangible now -- Kaepernick's name will live on.
It's an awareness campaign. Gandhi's hunger strikes didn't have anything to do with food, they brought attention to injustices.
A nobody who Time named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. A nobody who made Time's top 10 finalists among voters for Person of the Year for 2017. A nobody who was named by Sports Illustrated to be recipient of the Mohammad Ali Legacy Award. A nobody whose critics attribute to being the reason for the decline in NFL ratings. A nobody who Trump singled out in a speech and referred to a SOB that should be taken off the field.
I know, but I think we're in a different place in the 2010s United States than where India was in the 1930s-40s. Societal awareness of the police issue in America was achieved after Ferguson and the creation of Black Lives Matter, IMHO. After that, what American could really say "I didn't know, I had no idea?"
Somebody gets itDoug B said:
Yes, Sports Illustrated will probably ask Kaep to give back the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award.
Couldn't that be said about the majority of threads in the Political Subforum then?Can we let this thread just die the way it should have ages ago? What is the need to post articles/tweets wholesale without any commentary at all. People can go read their own articles if they want. Just let it die
Half the post the last three pages are just articles quoted wholesale with absolutely no commentary. That is bad even for the politics subforum.
I don't see the problem. Whatever I don't care to see or read I just skip over. If it's worth commenting on I do so and if not I move on. It's not much different than any other number of threads in any of the forums on here.
How about you show a little bit of restraint and just not open the thing?Can we let this thread just die the way it should have ages ago? What is the need to post articles/tweets wholesale without any commentary at all. People can go read their own articles if they want. Just let it die
this thread is still on the front page. What a cesspool.
I agree. It'd be nice if Colin and Kobe would speak out about violence against innocent police officers sometimes too
So you agree that cops being violent with innocent minorities is an issue too?
I've never said it wasn't, so what's the point if your post?So you agree that cops being violent with innocent minorities is an issue too?
Looks like we really are getting somewhere for once!
My point was that if you want Kapernick and Kobe to acknowledge violence against police officers, it stands to reason you also think that the right should acknowledge that police violence against minorities is an issue.
That may not be a bad idea. I don't think they are against cops in general, just bad ones.
No, and Kaep indirectly addresses this in November 2016:
