5 years after Colin Kaepernick, what did it reveal to you about society?

[Suburbia]

5 years ago this month, August 2016, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick changed the world basically by listening to football long snapper and Army soldier Nate Boyer about kneeling during the US national anthem instead of sitting down by protesting police brutality and racism.....Kaepernick and his ally Eric Reid knelt and a new wave of social activism never seen since the 1960s occured, growing worldwide....

What did the past few years reveal to you about society at large?

[Meclazine for Israel]

Colin who?

[Хahar 🤔]

Colin who?

Seeing as that this is the US Election Atlas Forum, it might behoove you to have some knowledge of important figures in America.

[Rand]

…that Black people hate America, obviously.

[Suburbia]

Colin who?

Then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who led his team to Super Bowl 47 in 2012, a biracial man who was adopted started a athlete conversation about using their social platform and privilege to speak about racial and social issues. Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem's display to protest police brutality and racism....

He has not been in the National Football League as a quarterback since December 2016 when he became a free agent, many people see him being blackballed from getting a job in 2017 and 2018, he has done activism work ever since.

[HillGoose]

socity?

[BaldEagle1991]

That people are willing to boycott sports now.

[Crane]

The NFL is okay with actual human scum like Tom Brady's buddy Antonio Brown but civil rights agitation is no bueno.

[THG]

Nothing.

I haven't heard of his name in a long time, and it took me a second to recall who he actually was.

[Alben Barkley]

The NFL is okay with actual human scum like Tom Brady's buddy Antonio Brown but civil rights agitation is no bueno.

If Kaepernick was as good a QB as Brown was a WR, trust me, they would have overlooked it. But his career was in decline by the time he started his stunts.

Also, between his Nike deal, accepting huge settlements in his lawsuits against the NFL, his demands for 20 million dollars per year to play in the XFL (100 times what their QBs are normally paid), and his extraordinarily deep "both sides bad, don't vote lol" political commentary, something tells me Kaep isn't in this to be a selfless martyr for the cause or the next MLK... Or hell, even the next Muhammad Ali. Which would be a more fitting comparison, except Ali was actually good and determined and as a result his career was by no means ruined by his political controversies.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

The same thing everything else the past five years have revealed to me about society: that we live in one.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Colin who?

Seeing as that this is the US Election Atlas Forum, it might behoove you to have some knowledge of important figures in America.

I love that word. Behoove.

Can you use it in another sentence in a different context so I can use it tomorrow at work.

[Crane]

The NFL is okay with actual human scum like Tom Brady's buddy Antonio Brown but civil rights agitation is no bueno.

If Kaepernick was as good a QB as Brown was a WR, trust me, they would have overlooked it. But his career was in decline by the time he started his stunts.

Also, between his Nike deal, accepting huge settlements in his lawsuits against the NFL, his demands for 20 million dollars per year to play in the XFL (100 times what their QBs are normally paid), and his extraordinarily deep "both sides bad, don't vote lol" political commentary, something tells me Kaep isn't in this to be a selfless martyr for the cause or the next MLK... Or hell, even the next Muhammad Ali. Which would be a more fitting comparison, except Ali was actually good and determined and as a result his career was by no means ruined by his political controversies.

So being a rapist is okay with you as long as they can catch ball good? Got it.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

That a washed up quarterback most likely hates his white parents and white siblings. 

[Orwell]

The NFL is okay with actual human scum like Tom Brady's buddy Antonio Brown but civil rights agitation is no bueno.

If Kaepernick was as good a QB as Brown was a WR, trust me, they would have overlooked it. But his career was in decline by the time he started his stunts.

Also, between his Nike deal, accepting huge settlements in his lawsuits against the NFL, his demands for 20 million dollars per year to play in the XFL (100 times what their QBs are normally paid), and his extraordinarily deep "both sides bad, don't vote lol" political commentary, something tells me Kaep isn't in this to be a selfless martyr for the cause or the next MLK... Or hell, even the next Muhammad Ali. Which would be a more fitting comparison, except Ali was actually good and determined and as a result his career was by no means ruined by his political controversies.

So being a rapist is okay with you as long as they can catch ball good? Got it.

Like yea, is this news to you? I think a Former NFL GM said it best, "If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, he'd have a minor eating disorder"

[Saint Milei]

1. Wealthy black people in the spotlight really just want power and control, with no real change and reform. Most are hypocrites

2. White liberals really don't care about race issues until they are called racist or it benefits their pockets

3. The right is really incompetent on race in an unforgivable manner

4. A lot of woke black people are really con-artists or idiots

[Santander]

Colin Kaepernick is the greatest civil rights icon in American history since Robert E. Lee.

[Biden his time]

I had a football jersey with his name on it long before he did that kneeling thing.
I was hesitant to wear it for a few years after that to avoid having people think I was making a political statement.
Someone mistakenly thought I was doing that once.

Really sucks how everything becomes politicized.

[Suburbia]

Did the past few years expose to you who Jerry Jones, Boomer Esiason, etc. are, especially the way how they treated Kaepernick?