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Why have these people never spoken up about Jehovah's Witnesses not standing during the National Anthem?
Colin Kaepernick remains unemployed.
And Panthers quarterback Cam Newton offered support for the former 49ers signal-caller on Tuesday.
"I really think it's unfair. I think it's unfair," Newton told reporters. "Not to take any storm or glory away from this game -- we're trying to find every way to be prepared for the 49ers come Sunday.
"But in my opinion, do I think Kaepernick is better than some of these starting quarterbacks in this league? Absolutely. Should he be on a roster? Absolutely. There's no question about it."
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has seen what quarterback Colin Kaepernick can do, in a couple of postseason games. And Rodgers believes that Kaepernick currently should be gainfully employed by an NFL team.
“I think he should be on a roster right now,” Rodgers tells Mina Kimes of ESPN The Magazine. “I think because of his protests, he’s not.”
Rodgers also explained that he understands why some players are protesting during the national anthem, even though Rodgers isn’t inclined to join in.
“I’m gonna stand because that’s the way I feel about the flag — but I’m also 100 percent supportive of my teammates or any fellow players who are choosing not to,” Rodgers told Kimes. “They have a battle for racial equality. That’s what they’re trying to get a conversation started around. . . . I don’t understand what it’s like to be in that situation. What it is to be pulled over, or profiled, or any number of issues that have happened, that Colin was referencing — or any of my teammates have talked to me about. . . . But I know it’s a real thing my black teammates have to deal with.”
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tom Coughlin says the Jacksonville Jaguars weren’t interested in signing free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
“No. We did the study, the research, and we weren’t interested,” Coughlin said Saturday.
Asked to explain the reasons, Coughlin added, “I’m not explaining it.”
Jaguars owner Shad Khan said last week he would be open to signing Kaepernick if the front office wanted to do it. Coughlin, the team’s executive vice president, has final say on personnel decisions.
Kaepernick remains unsigned after opting out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers. Many of Kaepernick’s supporters believe the NFL is punishing him for refusing to stand during the anthem in an effort to protest police brutality.
Kaepernick has 72 touchdown passes, 30 interceptions and 13 rushing scores in six seasons — better numbers than Jaguars quarterbacks Blake Bortles and Chad Henne.
Pro Football Hall of Famer and Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown panned current football players who choose to protest during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner, saying “I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem.”
Brown, who fought for social causes throughout his career, told ThePostGame.com he empathizes with jobless quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the trend of kneeling during the anthem last season when he played for the San Francisco 49ers. But Brown said Kaepernick and other players who demonstrate – such as a dozen Cleveland players who knelt Monday – are going about their crusade the wrong way.
“I’m going to give you the real deal: I’m an American,” Brown said. “I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and national anthem. I’m going to work within those situations. But this is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.”
Kaepernick began to kneel in order to protest what he alleged was an increasing spate of police brutality against minorities. Brown said he wants to be in Kaepernick’s “corner” on the demonstration, but he suggested the act hadn’t been thought through.
“If you have a cause, I think you should organize it, present it in a manner where it's not only you standing or sitting on one knee, but a lot of people that is gonna get behind each other and do something about it,” Brown said. “If I ask you one question: Who is Colin calling on to follow what he's talking about?”
Brown also acknowledged players should try to honor the wishes of the team owners who are paying them millions of dollars.
“Colin has to make up his mind whether he's truly an activist or he's a football player,” Brown said. “Football is commercial. You have owners. You have fans. And you want to honor that if you're making that kind of money…”
I confess- I take Bible Study with the Witnesses. Fine people. I think the reason no-one calls them on it is two-fold.Why have these people never spoken up about Jehovah's Witnesses not standing during the National Anthem?
I'm thinking the 0-3 Niners need to bench Brian Hoyer and re-sign Kaepernick. That would be the sports story of the year.
Never going to happen, of course, but it would be a stroke of genius.
In lieu of a visit to the White House, we have decided that we'll constructively use our trip to the nation's capital in February to celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion - the values that we embrace as an organization.
U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
Kneeling has always been a gesture of respect. Disrespecting the flag would be turning his back on it, or flipping it the bird.
The real problem people have with taking a knee isn't about a desire for universal and unwavering "respect" for the flag. They're angry because those who kneel force them to think about the fact that our POC are not safe from being slaughtered in the streets by police, that due process has often been tossed out the window, that cut and dried cases of police abuse are routinely dismissed by our courts. Football fans want entertainment. They don't want to think about their privilege. Kaepernick made them think about something other than football, and that pisses them off.
Let me get this straight. A bunch of black guys kneel during the national anthem and Trump says it disrespects the flag. A bunch of white guys made war on that flag, and “Republic for which it stands”, and Trump wants statues and monuments built in their honor.
I used to walk the grounds of UVA in Charlottesville, VA as a graduate student only to watch in horror as those same grounds became a battlefield being trod by Nazi and anti-Semitic worshippers armed with assault style weapons ready to fight to make America White again. (their words). You actually said there were nice people on both sides. People armed and ready to kill other Americans for the purpose of eradicating Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Mexicans, Asians, Latinas and even the first real Americans, Native Americans to make America Great Again were “nice people”? Verses what you say in condemnation of an unarmed black man peacefully protesting by exercising his constitutional First Amendment rights by silently taking a knee is appalling, unnerving and reprehensible. You called Colin Kaepernick “a son-of-a-bitch.” And said he should be fired. You are basically calling his white mother a bitch. The strong contrast in language for a black man and a Nazi is very telling. Do you have any sense of decency or shame in what you say to the American people that are part of your duty to serve respectfully with dignity, presidentially?
PoC are being LITERALLY slaughtered in streets by other PoC by least an additional order of magnitude over that of police. I'd say two or three orders of magnitude.
That kind of hyperbole diminishes (and IMO disrespects) the real problem.
Precisely what ratio should the PoC on PoC murder rate be before PoC should be taken seriously regarding the Police on PoC murder rate?PoC are being LITERALLY slaughtered in streets by other PoC by least an additional order of magnitude over that of police. I'd say two or three orders of magnitude.
That kind of hyperbole diminishes (and IMO disrespects) the real problem.
PoC are being LITERALLY slaughtered in streets by other PoC by least an additional order of magnitude over that of police. I'd say two or three orders of magnitude.
That kind of hyperbole diminishes (and IMO disrespects) the real problem.
PoC are being LITERALLY slaughtered in streets by other PoC by least an additional order of magnitude over that of police. I'd say two or three orders of magnitude.
That kind of hyperbole diminishes (and IMO disrespects) the real problem.
PoC are being LITERALLY slaughtered in streets by other PoC by least an additional order of magnitude over that of police. I'd say two or three orders of magnitude.
That kind of hyperbole diminishes (and IMO disrespects) the real problem.