Ouch: GQ Magazine names Colin Kaepernick its Citizen of the Year.

Still Taking a Knee Do something about it.

 

And that somehow absolves parents of their responsibility to keep their kids out of dangerous situations?

 

Kaepernick can spend the rest of his life with this silly, fraudulent 'knee-walking' propaganda stunt of his for all I care. Does he still make too much money to get on food stamps, welfare, and 'subsidies' for Obamacare? He ought to be thinking about his future (which is unlikely to include a paying, playing job in professional American football)!

 

I'm not offended, simply noting that it's fashion date has expired. Why are you so triggered by this observation?

 

Funniest post I've read today......Colin Kaepernick is a *****-whipped wanna be radical.......with a room temperature IQ.....

 

Children of 10 (or 12) should not be alone in public places !!!! CLEARLY, it's dangerous for them - in one way or another. If not rogue police, than creeps and weirdos, or rival 'gangs', or something. Children are soft targets .. that's why we protect them.

Sorry, but the parents have significant responsibility in this shooting death. Obviously the nutter cop is responsible for the death, but that in NO WAY absolves the parents for raising a kid who wanders about public parks alone, waving a gun, at age 12. If you can't or won't stop your 12 year old from doing something so patently dangerous, you have contributed to his death.

 

Yes yes ... that's all screamingly obvious. Bad cops are a nightmare, and very very dangerous. We know that. It doesn't need to be said. But what apparently DOES need to be said, over and over again, is 'parents, make sure you know where your kids are at all times .. and make sure that where they are is safe and wholesome'.

 

I 'got it' (and gave it some thought) but didn't think it was very important, personally, because the anthem propaganda show is sort of a commercial in itself.

 

If all that I want is that you return my hat, do not claim that my intention was "money" just because I am now suing you over the fact that you punched me over the matter.

 

Precisely. There is more than one way the situation could have been defused, but no! The problem here is in your own words, "the powers that be". Who are those powers and how do they manifest themselves? The answer is murky but not all that surprising. Just ask yourself who "loses" if the players were to be allowed to remain in the locker-room during the playing of the anthem as they were until fairly recently? The fans? No. The NFL? Indirectly perhaps. The pro-war-corrupt-capitalist-American propaganda industrial-complex machine? Bingo!

 

No, it isn't racist at all you should spend some time with a dictionary. It's a bad looking hairstyle, simple as that. All hair looks bad if not cared for and left "naturally", that's why we've invented things like brushes, clippers and combs to tame the manes.

Scared people like you who live life hiding your opinions, and think any comment that happens to involve a minority is automatically racist are embarrassing.

 

Some people today are so embarrassing. They go through a cowardly life walking on eggshells, tossing the word racist around at everyone and hiding their opinions behind a mask of fear.

Bad hair is bad hair, that's why we've invented things like the Barber, and many tools to groom ones self. The Afro is simply a terrible looking hairstyle, like many others.

Oh my god, it's raaaaaccccisssst to notice a Black man with a bad hairstyle. Please go poke fun at a White Guys Mullet hair instead, that's ok.

 

There are many good men in the NFL, men who are socially aware and contribute to foundations and charities. Good for JJ Watt and the others.

CK raised social awareness without spending a dime. He sacrificed his career and spoke truth to power. GQ made a very good choice.

 

"Accidentally"

And responding with "I don't know" is pretty much the worse thing you can say.

 

I'm 30 years old, 6'2" with a beard so that's an easy call for probably getting shot. A 12-year old, not so much.

 

Amen.

For the last season or two I have been deliberately tuning in late to all NFL games so that I can avoid the sickening militarism on display at the beginning. That militarism is nothing but positive reinforcement for the immoral and illegal Global War On Terror that has consumed over $5 trillion tax dollars.

Being 10 minutes late for Monday night's game, I noticed that ESPN actually replayed the "opening ceremonies" including the football field wide American flag and the many soldiers holding the flag. Blatant militarism meant to legitimize the war on terror. We found out in the last year that the pentagon actually pays the NFL for all that showmanship as a recruiting tool for the young and the restless.

 

Exactly what are 'his issues' that need to be resolved?

Can you show me one law in this country, any law, that discriminates against blacks or promotes institutional racism. Please, just one.

 

It is not the written law that discriminates.

It is the racist humans who enforce the written law that discriminate.

We could argue whether racism is spontaneous in humans, or involves teaching by other humans, but the point is that pretty much doing anything at all "while black" can be very dangerous.

 

Good. I admire you! But don't worry, if the madness continues they will soon be locking the gates to the stadium if the fans arrive after the propaganda show begins ..... and forfeit the cost of their tickets of course. Mark my words. Don't forget you heard it from me first.

That's all it is.

Yes. I know. I've been telling our fellow forum members but they are not listening.

You are not joking? they actually replayed it? Jesus Christ!

 

"Law"? What are you talking about? Law has nothing to do with it. International law forbade the US from invading Irak. Did it stop them? The US broke the law. The law (domestic and international) means nothing to the government of the US.

 

so you admit there's no specific laws that target blacks, or hold blacks down. It's the racist humans. But yet you also can't show or prove any single police incident that was motivated by racism. So it kind of throws you and krapernick's protest out the window huh?

And btw, breaking the laws 'while any color' can be very dangerous. I don't hear many stories of cops gunning down black kids leaving the library, school, work, etc.

So again, epic fail for you

 

WTF are you somehow equating blacks protesting a make believe injustice with the Iraq war?

You ever notice that these police incidents happen mostly in cities that have democrat/minority mayors, city council members, police chiefs, etc. I guess they're all racist against blacks too?

 

No, epic demonstration by you of being utterly uninformed or misinformed, whatever the case may be.

Just about 2 months ago a young black woman was stopped for a traffic infraction of some sort, and the final outcome was that in the parking lot of a convenience store, she was forced to submit to a body cavity check. There are a gazillion such stories, but you don't want to hear them. I know why.

 

Link?

And so what? You don't think that stuff happens to white people? There are gazillions of those stories that happen, and i highly doubt racism is the cause. Of course to people like you, racism is everywhere and in everything. I've been stopped and had my car searched by a drug dog because I had a Grateful Dead sticker on my car. No warrant or anything. they didn't find anything. It sucked, but life went on.