Oh my god no.
The below post from two months ago has 25 recommendations.
Reminder that despite the revisionist lionizing of Kaepernick, he is and always will be an edgy, contrarian jackass.
BLM took his stated cause and adopted it for their own, as did his fellow kneelers. His actual original goal has been forgotten in favor of a phony Kaepernick who was a vanguard for the current BLM cause.
This is why he was kneeling. He thinks America is fundamentally an irredeemable, white supremacists nation. He thinks this is a bad place. That's why when he kneeled he explicitly said it was to show disrespect for the flag.
I'm sure this post will be twisted twelve ways to Sunday but for the record, I am not opposed to kneeling, in its current incarnation as an expression of grief and activism. I just think that's not why Kaepernick was kneeling (no think about it really, it's his own words).
And the thing is, it's not like that was some grand principled stand either. The world was mainly introduced to Kaepernick and his political views through that whole episode. But we on the west coast had been familiar with him for years. He's always been an edgy jackass who basically gets his political views from Facebook and goes out of his way to be contrarian and woke. His "I'm kneeling to show disrespect for this white supremacists murder state" protest was just another episode of that.
Also, while I'm here, Kaepernick was a washed up player who was already on his way out of the NFL. All the revisionist history about, oh the NFL sabotaged his career, it's a bunch of malarkey. His career was already over. Yes he has some stats you can cherrypick that look good on paper. So do plenty of other QBs, like Tyrod Taylor, who are also confined to backup, journeyman, or tank captain roles. If Kaepernick was able to play that role, he'd still be in the league. Unfortunately he was a locker room problem, wanted starter money, and his girlfriend called the Ravens owner a "slave master" when they were about to offer him a deal, so that's why he's out of the league.
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