I didn't read through 9 pages of this thread, but why ANYONE gives a rat's ass about what this has-been thinks, does, or says...is beyond me.
Stand up, sit down, piss on the flag. I don't really give a fuck. None of it is going to make you good at football again.
If I got all worked up every time a minority millionaire acted like a spoiled entitled fuck, I'd have a stroke by age 40.
It matters bcuz his actions cause the focus to continue to be upon only a part of the problem.
And a part of the problem that is
a smaller part of the overall challenge of Race Relations within this country.
Example: you develop a rash caused by a Liver Problem yet you demand of your doctor that only the rash be focused upon, the underlying Liver Problem causing that rash ignored.
You'd never do that.
Yet Black People, THE US Gov, the media, Liberals and other PC and now Colin Kapernick demand that the focus be cops shooting or abusing Black People.
The Underlying Problem and what leads to this circumstance is:
Blacks. Commit. Crimes.
Try, as a White Person though, to bring focus to this, the primary problem amidst Racial Division, and you get called Racist, the response is the mention of a Police vs. Black incident wherein the Black involved was not a criminal and once again focus gets diverted.
Kap's actions = Black People yet again refuse to hold themselves accountable for their role in the problem, they refuse to take responsibility for anything.
One can only conclude that they simply are not intelligent enough to do so, to see the big picture and to comprehend that their own criminal behavior is the largest part of the reason that they keep getting their asses shot.
And that their own criminal behavior is the main reason that they kill one another as often as they do.
Which is yet another problem that Black People choose to ignor. Black on Black Crime.
This is just skimming the surface of why their has to be a response to Kap's Juvenile attention whore display. Not only does it perpetuate a focus upon a mere SYMPTOM of the problem and ignor the main disease but he chose an action to accomplish that which disrespects Our nation, those who believe in America and those who have lost so much fighting for this country.
Matters also due to the Double Standard. Free Speech is permitted when that speech is Pro-Black or Pro-Mulsim. When speech is not these things, that Speech is not permitted.
People lose their jobs all the time for speech that "does not align with the values of the organization/company" Kap gets a pass though bcuz his exhibition of such was Pro-Black.
Blacks. Commit. Crimes.
That is the problem.
We choose at some point to address this, the real and actual underlying problem, or we accept a country comprised largely of Blacks Commiting Crimes while whining continously about dying.
As result of
Blacks Committing Crimes.
Been a tough pill to swallow, for me, what guys have said about: "Those Vets gave what they did so this exact Freedom of Speech could exist here, to make a nation wherein people have the right to express themselves" but I have to accept that as true.
This does not obligate me, however, to not raising a voice against it and
common sense obligates me to demand that such protests (as Kap's) include a demand to Black People that they hold themselves accountable, take responsibility for their actions, accept and acknowledge that the biggest part of the problem is that Blacks. Commit. Crimes.