The following is not about Colin Kaepernick, but it also IS at the same time as he an Ta-Nehisi Coates share very similar beliefs.....the author (Jason D. Hikll) of this open letter does NOT share those views. If you care to read it there it is, if not, that is also fine.



An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Dream is real
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/a...nehisi-coates/

You touch on your flirtation with some special black racial essentialism in your book, and it is both affecting and sympathetic: “My working theory then held all black people as kings in exile, a nation of original men severed from our original names and our majestic Nubian culture. Surely this was the message I took from gazing out in the [Howard] Yard. Had any people, anywhere, ever been as sprawling and beautiful as us?” Unfortunately, there is nothing special about the black body. There is nothing special about any racially distinct physical body per se. Black skin does not convey nobility. Neither does white skin, or yellow skin. Your body is not special until it conjoins itself to a mind and adapts nature to its needs and desires and rational aspirations, its self-actualization and manifested agency. Any human body that fails to achieve a self-cultivated moral character and inscrutable human will is merely an ecological social ballast: ignoble, exploitable, a heap of unintelligible flesh on this earth.