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Colin Kaepernick Wins Amnesty International's Highest Honor
For some reason, you do not see many conservatives (aka, advocates for water boarding and sado-sexual torture) winning these Amnesty International thingys.
Colin Kaepernick Wins Amnesty International's Highest Honor
Colin Kaepernick may not have a job on the football field, but much of the world is still cheering for him.
Amnesty International, the global human rights organization, gave Kaepernick its highest honor — the 2018 Ambassador of Conscience Award — in Amsterdam on Saturday. Past winners of the award, which “celebrates individuals and groups who speak out for justice,” include former South Africa president Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, the education activist from Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, and rock group U2.
The organization recognized Kaepernick for his protest against police violence: his action, kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games, sparked a movement replicated across America and the world, starting a debate about free speech and patriotism that was inflamed by the President of the United States, one of Kaepernick’s most relentless critics.
“When high-profile people choose to take a stand for human rights, it emboldens others,” says Augusta Quiney, Amnesty International’s director of Art for Amnesty, a program that works with artists and entertainers on human rights activism. “For us, this is an opportunity to be on the right side of history.
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http://time.com/5248606/colin-kaeper...science-award/
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The guy who said Hillary Clinton would be in jail if she were a normal personOriginally Posted by Threedee
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DeadHead
Is that what Amnesty International honored him for?
Wait...oh, they didn't.
Lot's of people say lot's of stupid shit throughout the course of their lives. Some of it occurs right on this board!
The subject of Amnesty's award was for highlighting police brutality. I am pretty sure Amnesty does not give awards for stupid things said about presidential candidates. .
Practically Perfect
When did all of this police brutality start happening?
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Banned
I hope that prize has some monetary value attached to it. Might help him pay his bills being unemployed and all.
Verified User
Slave patrols that morphed into "policing".
Verified User
Integrity does not pay in american society, in fact the lack of integrity is what is rewarded.
Verified User
Yeah because AI is another lib organization giving libs awards. Just like the Oscars/Emmys.
Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.
Abortion
Pro-Choice
Women's rights
Women's Health
Practically Perfect
Well, it's a good thing that someone finally highlighted it.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Verified User
Better than it ever was.Well, it's a good thing that someone finally highlighted it.
Banned
I will agree with you on this.
DeadHead
Pretty impressed with Colin K. Fierce integrity like that does not come around often.
There are people on this forum who cannot muster integrity....risk free....on an anonymous keyboard to people they don't know and will never meet.
This Colin dude obviously knew he was taking a risk...with his employers, with his ability to market himself, with his professional careers. Substantial personal and financial risk to himself. He obviously must have weighed the risk against his conscience.
Takes some guts, man.
Canceled
How many other people would give up a lucrative career to take a stand for something they believed in?
He's a great American, imo.
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