Colin Kaepernick and the absurdity of the NFL

[El Kabong]

Let's clear up one thing up front. "My passion" for Kaepernick? No, man. My passion is for injustices, regardless of who they might be. Regardless of profession, color, beliefs, whatever. It happens to be Kaepernick in this case, a black (shorter than African-American) professional football player. We clear on that? Good. Let's proceed.

1. You must be in desperate straights to keep trying to compare Tebow to Kaepernick. But just like my blinders-wearing brother in law, you'll never be convinced otherwise. Suffice it to say you'd be laughed out of any decent barroom conversation with knowledgeable pro football fans. You quit following the NFL, remember? Yes.... please throw out there their career records. Forget about everything else involved. Forget that Tebow's very short run in the NFL was/is/ will always be considered a fluke. Forget that Kaepernick had HUGE stats in leading his team to the Super Bowl not long ago. Forget what 99% of football experts would say to your comparison if they could just forget the white elephant in the room which is of course Colin's audacity to protest something he believes in.

2. Football players are judged by THEIR actions. This isn't "All My Children" or "General Hospital". This is a professional football league for grownups. Save the girlfriend soap opera for somebody who cares. Did Colin himself do anything wrong? Is the woman his WIFE? No to both questions. Move on.

3. You made the ludicrous claim about owners providing jobs and being ohhhh so kind to black football players, providing security, blah, blah, blah. I merely pointed out that every batch of apples has a few rotten ones in the barrel. In this case it was Sterling. Had he not been moronic enough to be recorded saying some horribly racist things, we would've been none the wiser, and you'd be claiming that they're all wonderful human beings.

4. The league has a Commissioner. Granted, he's many times a puppet on the owners' strings, but so be it. The official position of the league, of course, is totally and decidedly UN-racist. And if you were to poll all the owners, they'd be just short of Mother Theresa status.



Admit it. You hate it when anyone brings up racism, WHETHER IT'S WARRANTED OR NOT. You've made up your mind LONG AGO that racism is only a tool/ card to be played by those who want to gain something undeserved by it. Not for a minute has it EVER crossed your mind that there might be the slightest possibility that in some cases these claims might be completely warranted. As usual, not only do you live on the other side of the pendulum..... you help swing it to its highest point.

So Colin Kaepernick is having a grave injustice committed against him by the 32 Donald Sterlings who own the NFL teams? This is 100% due to his being of mixed race and protesting the National Anthem and Police correct? It has 0% to do with his being 29 years old and 3-16 in his starts from 2015 & 2016? His not being on a team has nothing to do with his opting out of a contract with the 49ers or his girlfriend calling Ray Lewis an Uncle Tom (sorry you think that's "Soap Opera" but at the VERY least it's not helpful, the VERY least).

1. God al-fucking-mighty.....fine I'll not compare him to Tebow


2. Yup EXACTLY! So if I'm a football player and I'm looking to play in Dallas and my girlfriend posts something which calls Emmitt Smith a "n*gger" that's going to have 0 impact on my signing with Dallas? Please, please, pretty fucking please with a cherry on top tell me you honestly think that.


3. I'm not claiming they are all wonderful, I'm claiming they aren't ALL Donald Sterling, but according to you I am wrong about that.


4. Yes and this Commissioner has been running the league into the fucking ground.


I'll be very frank, I don't believe in celebritizing victimhood. I believe that the "racist" problems in the United States of America pale in comparison to those issues around the world. I hate that people make money pushing an agenda that perpetuates racism instead of actually addressing the issue, I hate it that people think just because Trump is President that "It's the most dangerous time to be alive!!!", I hate it that politicians and activists PUSH to break the black 2 parent household and abort more black babies, I hate it that people have lower expectations (academically, legally, in the work place) for people of different races, I hate it that some people TRULY feel that they are carrying the weight of their ancestors' oppression and that they feel I should carry the guilt of my ancestors if they did something or nothing they were white and so I being of their skin color/race should be punished feel guilt and shame.....FUCK THAT!

Are there racists in the world? Yeah, the world is a big and scary place at times and yeah there are some really fucking hateful people out there but the average person Tito, the average person black, white, brown, yellow, whatever I CHOOSE to believe their natural state is goodness, kindness, humanity. If you wish to allude to my being a racist or allowing racism or what have you, FINE, I have 0 problem with you thinking that of me, 0 got it? I'm in a mixed marriage but nah, nah it's cool because you think I'm racist or that I make exceptions for racism, that must be the case.



I HOPE to God Colin Kaepernick is signed and starts every fucking game. I do not care if he's the WORST QB of all fucking time he should be signed and never leave the field because he's THAT talented 3-16.

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