I honestly don’t care anymore. I support Colin’s silent protest, I support kneeling, I definitely think he deserved to be in the NFL, at least as quality backup, but that ship has sailed. Sailed long ago, really. In NFL years he’s been gone a lifetime.
He’s been gone longer than most players’ careers.
If he was signed today he would almost certainly struggle and it would just give “see, told you he sucks” crowd more ammo, fair or not.
It just isn’t gonna happen. It would have happened already.
I used to kind of support him, but over timeI’ve come to feel he’s not bringing anything positive to the table. I think he’s a cog in a false narrative that has been sold to blacks in America for years. It’s really been great for young, black males how he’s hammered home the message or structural racism, and cops being jackbooted thugs looking for any reason to gun down a black man in the streets. Never once mentioning that a population that is less than 15% of our country is committing more than half the murders, most being within their own communities.
And unfortunately, since the white man will only allow you to be an athlete or rapper if that doesn’t pan out you’re left with what you see in most American cities.
There is some truth to his position. There will always be bad cops. You don’t find people that are willing to initiate contact with a 6’5 dude that’s been lifting in jail for years without potentially hiring a violent person, most people fold at the slightest confrontation these days. Men willing to commit violence always will attract some bad men. But Kaepernick is instilling that terror that in a routine traffic stop you are liable to be killed. That fear causes the high tension interactions with police who are just as scared. And the narrative that cops are gunning for blacks is untrue. Statistics cut right through all of that and their readily available for anyone to see.
So in short, fuck dude. Plus stop pretending you’re trying to ball, you’re not. A few years ago I was less against Kaepernick, but he’s shown his character over the last few years, and found out how lucrative liberal guilt was.