What are these protests actually to do beyond making people yell and scream at each other even more and increase the divisiveness that has exploded in this country? Is it going to make people sing kumbaya around a fire together? Is it going to fundamentally change the way that people see and think about each other in…

Kinda wish they’d kept it quiet until the moment. Only thing worse than Instant Hot Takes are Preview Hot Takes.

...and it officially becomes this year’s Ice Bucket Challenge.

Is it common for anchors to wear jeans? Seams a little unprofessional to me (jeans at a job that isn’t like construction or something). But obviously the station she works at and regular viewers have no issue with that since she wore similar cloths while reporting before.

The transition for Wentz won’t be as bad. There isn’t a huge talent leap between the last team he played against (Jacksonville State University) and the next team he plays (Cleveland Browns).

It’s astounding that in the NFL, a draft pick would immediately be expected to be a starter at an incredibly complex position. In baseball, (most) players aren’t viewed to be at their “true” potential until they’re 26 or 27 years old. Obviously the lack of any sort of developmental system in football doesn’t allow…

Well you can’t eat him right out of the package, silly. You’ve got to pre-heat the oven to 375 °F and let him bake for 15 minutes per pound and he’ll come out perfectly crispy on the outside and tender and juicy inside, ready for the #1 spot on your dinner table.

Thanks. He’s fat and weighs a huge amount

When asked how he plans to make the million dollar payment to charity, Kap was quoted as saying “When you’re rich you don’t write checks.” When pushed for clarification he replied “Straight cash, homie.”

What I am is irrelevant. The only reason I butted in was to say that you should treat people differently. I’ve yet to state my opinion on anyone’s stance. Race doesn’t, and shouldnt, matter.

God I wish the now-standard “[ ]-splaining” rebuttal to someone anytime they try to expand upon the point they are trying to make would go away.

Usually I just write something insulting once and don’t respond back. But good fucking God, dude.....you are something singularly precious. Good luck out there.

Are being a stupidly emotional jackass on the Internet? Yes. Just for the record, any time anyone online says “your white is showing” what they really mean is “I have a little penis.”

What I’m saying is that I personally don’t care about any of this. I care about the systemic racism, the violence, the militarization of our police. The flag is a peace of cloth to me, the anthem is a song. I care about the fact that we said “all men are created equal” and spent our whole history failing those words.

Fine. Throw your damn tantrums then. Be right in your book, and see how well that gets you listened to.

It’s totally fine that Kaepernick WANTS the focus not to be on him, but rather on the problems. My core point is that his communication is not clear enough to facilitate this. He’s not being clear and specific enough (yet) about what issues he’s trying to change. This makes it difficult to rally others behind him and…

Yes, his sock choice is exactly as bad as what any racist spews. It’s not worse, it’s not better. It’s exactly as bad. It’s a deliberate blanket statement about police, magnified by the fact that he knows he’s making it in the public eye.

He’s not wrong though. Protest is great, but I really feel like he’s gone about this in just the wrong way. That’s coming from a good place I’m sure, a spontaneous place where he’s just fed up of seeing these things on the news every single day and feels powerless to stop it. So he selected this as his means of…

Well, I am white, so if it shows, I am okay with society seeing it. I guess having thoughts about how a protest can be maximally effective in achieving its desired results is something white people do? I don’t know.

I completely want Kaepernick’s protest to turn into a movement that makes some kind of a difference, even if it’s just .001% in a positive direction. I believe in protest and I take him at his word that his intentions are pure. But he’s in way over his head here. I applaud him for facing the media and speaking for so…