Technically, he is kneeling to bring awareness to policing shootings;

Found Colin’s celeb doppelganger!

Remember when Danny put up a small carport at his home in RI because he didn’t want to be late for practices driving through our ridiculous snow? His neighbors, the true patriots clearly, nearly ran him out of town because the carport was a slap in the face to their fancy historical district. Our founders didn’t…

We will have to agree to disagree on points 2 & 3. However, you’d have to agree that from the first second the Kaep story hit the news cycle, both the owners and the League have be completely supportive. This is directly verifiable in both traditional media reports and on social media. I know the tweets you are…

You are completely right, and this is great commentary. ‘Communication’ is the process of convincing people who don’t already agree with you - NONE of that happens here.

It’s a lethal combro

He should’ve jumped onto the flag and they could’ve bounced him into the air during the anthem.

You aren’t recognizing the stress the shield officers are under. The shield has to work in really tough neighborhoods. People need to respond to the shield with respect and only support shield supported causes so the shield doesn’t have to give them all memory problems in self defense.

I see your point, and Samer sort of conflates these two things in his post - the purpose of the protest vs. the manner of the protest. If Samer is saying that Dilfer should shut up because of his thoughts on the purpose of the protest, my original points stand. In fact, I think someone else responded to me below in a…

Fortunately, Peyton was orders of magnitude worse than Dilfer in winning that second Super Bowl, so go nuts!

This is the truth. And its much better than a ‘decent argument’ to say that he’s upped his social/economic status - there’s an extremely strong argument to be made that he’s upped his status.

You know when people say “it was the least that I could do”? This is literally the least that Kaepernick could do. He’s totally entitled to do it, but let’s not start comparing him to MLK or John Lewis (comparisons which I have actually read) or the freedom riders. Hell, this is even a far cry from Tommie Smith and…

A black man?!?!? Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. Oh sure, one of his biological parents might have been black but that fucker is about as white bred as they come. Hell, I’d wager nobody was more surprised to learn Colin Kaepernick was half black than Colin Kaepernick.

My only regret is that Peyton won a second Super Bowl so I couldn’t say he’s only as good as Trent Dilfer anymore.

Kaep is an upper middle class white kid that can pass for black when it suits his needs. You go look at him before he decided it was beneficial to rep just how black he is and he looked more Italian than black by a wide margin. He didn’t give the first runny shit about black lives when he was a starting QB. You think…

This, in a nutshell, is the problem with this issue. According to Kaepernick, the purpose of his protest is to “start a conversation,” right? Every article I read about this stresses the importance of an “honest conversation” or an “exchange of ideas,” or an “open dialogue” about race and police brutality. That’s a…

It must be nice to be able to be black only when it’s convenient. Ol’ Kaep has a good thing going for sure.

He probably just grew his hair out to be prepared for this eventuality.

So which of his teammates do you think helped him get his hair in cornrows? I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that fucker hasn’t worn his hair that way a day in his life until reminding the world he’s part black became a way to extend his 15 minutes a little longer.

So basically, “Agree with Kap or shut the hell up”. It’s good to see free speech and protests are one way arguments.