49ers QB Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the national anthem

Darth Hussein Omar said:
Kap can speak all he wants. And I can speak out in pointing out the irony lol.

What a great, unoppressive country we live in. Unlike Fidel's Cuba.

It's just that it exudes irony from so many angles.
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Meh. I find a lot of irony in self-proclaimed billionaire Trump saying America isn't great. Or Tea Party members saying don't take my Medicare.

There's enough irony to go around for everyone.
 
Legion Troll said:
The author of the lyrics was a vile racist.
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Like so many of his compatriots, Francis Scott Key, the wealthy American lawyer who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" in the wake of the Battle of Fort McHenry on 14 September 1814, was a slaveholder who believed blacks to be "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community." It goes without saying that Key did not have the enslaved black population of America in mind when he penned the words "land of the free." It would be logical to assume, as well, that he might have harbored a special resentment toward African Americans who fought against the United States on behalf of the King.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/29/star-spangled-banner-and-slavery/
 
"San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during recitations of the national anthem at football games to protest police brutality has earned him ire from conservative personalities up to and including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

But on Monday, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade took the criticism to a new, bigoted level, suggesting Kaepernick should be grateful for his life in the United States because the biracial quarterback was fortunate enough to be raised by two white parents."

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/08/...ernick-should-stand-for-anthem-beca/21461677/
 
christiefan915 said:
I personally don't care for the anthem because it glorifies war. Maybe I'll keep sitting the next time I hear it played or sung.
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You're free to do as you please. To each his own. But our country wouldn't be here without having fought a war(s) so anything really "celebrating America" is celebrating war.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
You don't get it.

It happens that Colin was blessed with a physical *aptitude*, which he had to develop over years in order to get his shot at the NFL. It's exceedingly rare that an individual is sufficiently gifted that they can cruise into the NFL and scored a few million. Maybe, a Bo Jackson could have done it. 99.9% of the rest devoted many, many hours in the gym and on the field developing their talent.

The identical principle applies to any individual with an innate aptitude, black white or purple. Yes, young black people have aptitudes. They should be encouraged to discover what they are instead of telling them the white man's world has the deck stacked against them.

Regarding Colin K: I saw the picture of him with the Castro shirt on and a ball cap with the big [Malcolm?] X on it. I'll wager he's not the best role model for young blacks.
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To be clear, Kaepernick's parentage does not erase his experience as a biracial American — and Kaepernick himself has addressed the issue of his adopted family and racial identity before.

"We used to go on these summer driving vacations and stay at motels," the quarterback told US Weekly in October. "And every year, in the lobby of every motel, the same thing always happened, and it only got worse as I got older and taller. It didn't matter how close I stood to my family, somebody would walk up to me, a real nervous manager, and say: 'Excuse me. Is there something I can help you with?'"

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/08/...ernick-should-stand-for-anthem-beca/21461677/
 
Kaepernick is starting as QB for the next Niners game.

ESPN won't televise the anthem.

ESPN told Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated that it normally does not show the national anthem for the late game of the Week One Monday Night Football doubleheader and won’t show it this year either.


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/08/30/espn-wont-show-national-anthem-before-49ers-game/
 
christiefan915 said:
To be clear, Kaepernick's parentage does not erase his experience as a biracial American — and Kaepernick himself has addressed the issue of his adopted family and racial identity before.

"We used to go on these summer driving vacations and stay at motels," the quarterback told US Weekly in October. "And every year, in the lobby of every motel, the same thing always happened, and it only got worse as I got older and taller. It didn't matter how close I stood to my family, somebody would walk up to me, a real nervous manager, and say: 'Excuse me. Is there something I can help you with?'"

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/08/...ernick-should-stand-for-anthem-beca/21461677/
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Lies!

Fake Zake says racism is a non-issue.
 
cawacko said:
You're free to do as you please. To each his own. But our country wouldn't be here without having fought a war(s) so anything really "celebrating America" is celebrating war.
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The anthem is an old British drinking song - put to music by the words of Key.
It was a big deal to beat back the British at Baltimore's Ft. McHenry - many of the defenders were just civilian militia.

Superior British weapons pounded the fort from newly designed bomb ships anchored safely out of range of the fort’s own guns
The bombardment went on all night, but the Brit's could not take the fort, and could not reinforce the troops they
had on the ground who were coming north from Washington DC ( after burning the White House, etc.).

It was a stellar defense, and ended the war in the northeast. There still was the Battle of New Orleans, and something (?) on the Great Lakes
but this broke the back of the British advance.

Key wrote the words from a prisoner ship anchored in the harbor..

"oh say can you see by the dawn's early light" was him looking to see if the US flag was still flying over the fort.
 
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anatta said:
The anthem is an old British drinking song - put to music by the words of Key.
It was a big deal to beat back the British at Baltimore's Ft. McHenry - many of the defenders were just civilian militia.

The bombardment went on all night, but the Brit's could not take the fort, and could not reinforce the troops
had on the ground who were coming north from Washington DC ( after burning the White House, etc.).

It was a stellar defense, and ended the war in the North east. There still was the Battle of New Orleans, and something (?) on the Great Lakes
but this broke the back of the British advance
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Thanks for regurgitating your Google search, Professor Obvious. Key was a stinking racist. You keep "forgetting" to mention that.
 
anatta said:
ty..I wonder if sitting for the national anthem is actually being a SJ "warrior"...

I think it's a disconnect to disrespect the flag-and expect that to do anything..but hey.
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Social Justice Warrior is a pejorative, not a complement. These are people that cover themselves in fake blood to protest a conservative coming to speak at a college campus. They think they are warriors for a great cause. When in reality they are morons, hated by both the left and right.
 
cawacko said:
A friend posted this on Facebook today:

This is not rocket science! Read the lyrics to the so called national anthem. The song is very anti Black so there is no reason Black people should stand for it. It is not anti soldier or anti police not to stand up. It is anti racism. And lastly as Black people we don't need to explain ourselves, read the lyrics and sit down or choose to celebrate slavery and stand up. Since high school I have sat down or stood and said a prayer because I was taught the history of the song then. Now as more Black people know more can make a choice. Thank you Kap and I pray more athletes sit down. With knowledge comes responsibility!- Shawn G.
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I've actually been to many events where black people didn't stand or even acknowledge the flag. "Dats racists" flag, they say.
 
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