Dave Zirin explains why Colin Kaepernick’s ongoing struggle with the NFL is really an example of how Black dissent is punished in the US.
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They definitely was set him up it was going to have somebody injure him on purpose
I rather have a martier than a sell out anyday, Ali had his title stripped from him, but he was known all over the world. And when he came back, he kicked some A ss. They don't want a black leader. We now this. Sincerely! Mic'19 ADOS get involved PS Steven A Smith is A pawn. Jay Z made a deal with the devil, and that other dude is nothing.
Kunta Kinte is a fictional character.
People can't handle the truth.Kap is a damn fraud.
Jay don't own Kap shit. Did he consult with him when he got his settlement? Did he consult with him when he signed with Nike.
All y'all doing is talking about him not having a job and nothing about racial or social injustice
Keeps his mind tho.. less concussions. Cap is a courageous gifted athlete and smart!
Excellent segment–great interview–gives me a better insight of the situation!
Stop it fat punk……..Jay z actionable item …..I rather actionable item with on constant results we protest and we negotiate. Negotiation without progress isn't actionable its a PR move by NFL to sweep this under the rug and continue to profit …. F the NFL
Forget professional sports, and forget twitter and FB. I sit with Kaepernick. It isn't just black lives that matter, though. All life matters or none does. Anything less is discriminatory. You can't pick and chose according to your personal bias and say it's more accurate or appropriate than another person's bias.
Coming from my fat man
Colin is such a looooooser!!!! And he sucks at quarterback on top of that! Stay ready Colin… stay ready. LOL!
WHY IS EVERY1 UNDERMINING THE "QUARTERBACK?!?!?!
AINT UNDERSTANDING MELLOW!!!
Y'all did that thang!!!
My kind of man. Principled.
Colin was done wrong in the beginning and nothing has changed! The comments at the beginning of this video were very telling. Some black men (like obama-followers) don't have the balls to speak truth to power. Colin does. Colin is still doing the right thing.
And the sad part is you have an opened minded White man telling it like it is and if he can see it that means other people refuse to see the truth as well as always!!!
Thank You Real News Network. I have been saying this on Social Media for a minute now. Kapernick should not even worry about playing anymore. Lord knows he loves the game getting into the NFL is no joke, the competition is beyond fierce. He has worked and toiled and trained for most of his life to become one of the best in the world in his position in that sport and he risked it all to speak Truth to Power on an Issue LARGER than Football and LARGER than the NFL. Thats Testicular Fortitude. That is a Place where only Real Men can Stand!
Kapernick is Bigger than the NFL.
Do you really care if Kaepernick has a job ? Isn't helping your own situation most important and first ? Kaepernick will not pay your bills for you .
Illuminating! Also this is a shame, seeing these men of color grasping at straws to justify a system that treads them underfoot, more or less. This is where you see economic class is, in cases, more influential than ethnicity.
P.S. Jacqueline you are looking effervescent! Pastel pink and mother of pearl suits you and I'm usually against commenting on esthetics while real news is being reported.
Muhammad Ali set the bar, are you living up to that bar?on his own terms whats the problem. He has been blackballed he has a right to protect his image.
Kaepernick is a joke, he played the race card because he couldn't play the game.
Kaepernick sit run for president and shut people like Jay Z up
Colin Kaepernick is the sexiest man alive not John Legend. I don't mean just looks, he's nice there too, but his fight. Sign of a strong Alpha male.
Kaep is a washed up RACIST has been
NFSMELLS you will reap what you soe
Thx for the rest of the story !
He was given the same amount of time, even more, that free agents are given to come perform a workout. Idiots.
Thank you for giving us the true ACTUAL FACTS of this case and the Lies and Deceit of the NFL and of their Willie Lynch DIVIDE AND CONQUER TACTICS AND THEIR MASTERFUL USE OF BLACK PARROTS TO SPEW THEIR LIES AND DECEIT! They are making the same mistake being made by this country and world powers of the pass by treating people with injustices because of their power over them.This is the true reason of the decline of America and the people's quality of life, which will continue until it is totally destroyed. They have taken their low desires and their insatiable greed for money and power as God and feel they are better than all without it. As stated in Isaiah 28:18 "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with Hell shall not stand, when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then shall ye be trodden down by it." They are ALL calling into effect the DIVINE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT! This is from the REAL TRUE AND LIVING GOD OF TRUTH AND OF JUSTICE, where we Must ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN! What does it gain a man to gain the whole world, and lose his Soul in the process. How much can you pay to buy back your SOUL?
They are all paid by the pyramid and are gate keeper big money. Will go along to get along to keep there life style and is always being used.
Imagine if native aboriginal people had a clear contract to defend themselves…
Imagine if Africans had a contract for freedom…
This is about white supremacy and their control over every narrative…
As a 59year old white man from Georgia I think Kaepernick is a national hero. Keep fighting for a better America.
Colin should just go to work for George Soros then he could make a full time career starting Cultural Marxist inequality revolutions all over the world instead of trying to bring it to boring sports venues🤔
KAP. is the biggest name in an out the NFL
There ya'll go again–allowing these biracials/lightskinneds be the spokesperson for the Race. He's NOT black. He will never experience colorism. He is NOT loyal u idiots. I dont care how many cornrows he wear.
Kaepernick can do what he wants….in his own spare time.
I dont get why this is so difficult to understand.
The guy was talented…then got benched due to his lack of play. Teams were simply figuring him out.
This whole workout and interview he gave seemed desperate. And I'll say this… if I was the NFL, no way I'd be hiring him again. He already had a chance with the Ravens, but his gf screwed that up.
Not to mention the lawsuit he won.
Bottom line, he is a liability, gained weight, hasn't played in 3 years, and didn't look sharp in his workout.
First of all he dont work for NFL anymore he won't back
If Edward Snowden can do interviews speaking on the United States government hiding in Russia why cant colin Kaepernic do a interview in the past 3 years…Kap is a clown !!!!
Damn us black folks are suckers and Kaepernick just proved it.
Gladiators entertain audiences in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.　
In the closing years of the politically and socially unstable Late Republic, any aristocratic owner of gladiators had political muscle at his disposal. In 65 BC, newly elected curule aedile Julius Caesar held games that he justified as munus to his father, who had been dead for 20 years. Despite an already enormous personal debt, he used 320 gladiator pairs in silvered armour. He had more available in Capua but the Senate, mindful of the recent Spartacus revolt and fearful of Caesar's burgeoning private armies and rising popularity, imposed a limit of 320 pairs as the maximum number of gladiators any citizen could keep in Rome. Caesar's showmanship was unprecedented in scale and expense; he had staged a munus as memorial rather than funeral rite, eroding any practical or meaningful distinction between munus and ludi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator
Now that young man is way ahead of his time and like! He nailed it!! This is all about BLACK DESENT!!!
Nfl owners are too small to swallow their pride, admit they were wrong and hire him back. They’re going to sit on their high horse, criticize his hair and clothes and keep defaming him while he isn’t allowed to defend himself due to a gag order. They’ll hire sell out back people like jay z and Stephen A to talk badly about Kap, before they just hire him back and get over this absurdity. All of this further evidence of these billionaires thinking they are better than us, and they can teach us a lesson with their billions, and silence us when they want.
This guy is a clueless idiot..kap dosnt want to play period..more money being professional victim
Why can't people admit that the venue for this protest was a misdirected one. I thought from the outset that the protest was too far removed from the actual perpetrators of the crime. Kaepernick acted without forethought and selfishly, in taking it upon himself to act without first consulting and getting consent, from his fellow league-mates. He should have realized the ramifications and the position he was putting them all in, by doing this at their place of employment. How would you have felt if your place of employment was arbitrarily chosen to be the site of a protest, that your employer, was not directly involved in creating the cause of? The NFL immediately was getting heat from ultra-patriotic fans, and they could not let a precedence be set, in which they could continually be pressured to capitulate to the demands of political protest. Kap was not signed by any team for this very reason – not wanting to set a precedence. Had the NFL actually felt more of a loss from Kaepernick supporters than they did from patriotic fans, then they may have dealt with him differently – after the fact.
It is an insult to equate what Kaepernick is experiencing with slavery. I won't even bother to explain why. Asking Black people to boycott football is as useless as asking us to boycott holidays. It is a diversion from our reality – one of the least self destructive ones. Would we rather us turn to drugs? Think how much more Black athletes would get out of the scholarships they receive, if our culture had a more positive outlook toward education? The NFL and other Pro team sports have for decades, given back to the community and encouraged their players to do the same. You can not attack the NFL and it not have an adverse affect on the players. Real fundamental issues are overshadowed by distractions like these, and the media feeds off, and exploits them for profit. Meanwhile, the initial issue of unjust killings, is left on the back burner, because it's too difficult to dealt with, so we focus on this easy one, to mask our ineptitude.
This Kaepernick issue just highlights the superficial relationship Black people have with celebrities. If there were any real substance, Muhammad Ali would have been checked by Black people, for his lack of respect for and denigration of, the stereotypical Black phenotype, and other public insults he used, in attempts to humiliate, his opponents, as part of his promoting of his fights. He insulted boxers like Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier's looks, while bragging about his own. In an interview he mentioned the white blood in him, or having a white man in his lineage. He know doubt attributed his "good looks" to his White genes.
Lastly the optics of this video is a bad image for Black people. The clip of the movie 'Roots' was unnecessary. I'm still trying to figure out how this "post traumatic slavery syndrome is supposed to work. The host gave too much deference to a guest on an issue that is her own.