Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Bear in mind when he wrote this, he was talking about their role in the opposing army. Hirelings, as in paid mercenaries, that would themselves kill Americans if they got a shot off first. War is hell, eh?

War is war, I agree. And slavery is slavery be it here or in another country. And our ancestors were sent to several countries as slaves, yes?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

i'm pretty sure if you showed up to work and had to stand with your entire company for the national anthem, you'd be in china.

I think you meant Japan. Lucy.

However most Toyotas are built in the USA

In fact Tundra has more American sourced parts and American labor than any truck sold in America.

Salesman hat off

[smilesammich 10,727]

I think you meant Japan. Lucy.

However most Toyotas are built in the USA

In fact Tundra has more American sourced parts and American labor than any truck sold in America.

Salesman hat off

sidewinder

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Just because somebody is good at sport has no obvious connection with anything else, whatever their race.

And there are plenty of non black examples.

And how do you know he has no obvious connection? His personal experience is his own.

Post a few white athletes protests links, so we can see how it's done.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

And how do you know he has no obvious connection? His personal experience is his own.

Post a few white athletes protests links, so we can see how it's done.

His experience of being abandoned by his black father and being raised by two white people who loved him . Yes white america dealt him a bad hand

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Stop that. You're not allowed to bring up WP. Nor use logic.

His experience of being abandoned by his black father and being raised by two white people who loved him . Yes white america dealt him a bad hand

[Janelle2002 3,865]

His experience of being abandoned by his black father and being raised by two white people who loved him . Yes white america dealt him a bad hand

If having a white patent alleviates racism why is President Obama being referred to as a monkey, an n word or Kenyan instead of biracial or white man

[smilesammich 10,727]

it's disconcerting how very little kaepernick's critics actually know about the reasons he's protesting.

[Rob L 3,811]

His experience of being abandoned by his black father and being raised by two white people who loved him . Yes white america dealt him a bad hand

Why does all of white America get credit for the love and sacrifice of these two people?

[Janelle2002 3,865]

What Adoption Classes Didn't Teach Us About Raising Black Children

5. Should your daughter make some big teenager mistakes like drinking and driving and then suffer the consequences of those mistakes by having a terrible car accident, she should not under any circumstances seek help. This could lead to her being shot and killed, followed by a media frenzy of people proclaiming that race was not an issue and that she deserved to die because everyone knows that all black people have drug and alcohol problems. When white teens get drunk, it is because they are appropriately rebelling, but black drinking is always gang related. People might flock to the internet to express that they wished she had died in the accident anyway. When kind, involved citizens try and comment on that same internet that nobody deserves to die like that, other commenters will tell them to go kill themselves.

6. When white people walk into Starbucks dripping in semi-automatic weapons, the press will call it a political statement and the white people will get coffee. Do not let this fool you. If your black child so much as plays with a toy gun at Walmart, he might be shot and killed. It will so clearly be gang related because who else would have a gun out in the open in a store besides gang members? I mean, who else besides white people? Those same people at Starbucks will fight to the literal death for the right of white people to own the kinds of guns that kill all kinds of people in big batches and then jump on their soapboxes of shock and condemnation when a black person shoots another black person.

7. Should your son have some physical challenges that make it difficult for him to run or fight back, like, say, asthma, and should he commit the teensiest tiniest infraction, he might be strangled to death by a police officer.

8. You might have to go on anti-depressants or pay gobs of money and set aside hours and hours of time to seek therapy for yourself and your children to maintain the courage necessary to deal with all the ways your children are profiled, accused, criminalized, sexualized and demonized. White people will tell you youre over-reacting. Anonymous people online will tell you youre imagining it because we are a post-racial America. Also they will tell you to go kill yourself, which will send you back to therapy. Its the If You Give Moose a Muffin of the interracial adoption world.

9. If your child struggles with a variety of developmental delays and differences, especially social ones, as so many children who were adopted do, your child will be seen as a criminal first, even when their behavior directly parallels that of their white counterparts, who will be offered compassion.

10. You might lose friends, who will fear your children are carriers of disease and assume that they are criminals (the boys) and sluts (the girls), especially as they grow into their teen years, especially if they are muscular or developed. In the case of the latter, make sure your daughter covers every inch of her skin because, otherwise, she is inviting rape.

11. Your children will learn to hate a part of themselves that they cannot change, not because its an unpleasant part of them, but because everything around them the media, music, television shows, movies, billboards, the internet, magazines, peers, teachers, doctors tells them it is, sometimes overtly and with a painful flourish and sometimes covertly, insipidly, through a series of micro-aggressions.

12. The most heartbreaking exchange between you and your children will not be about the death of a loved one or an impending divorce or the big good-bye at college. It will be the one where you tell them that they have to act differently than their white family, friends, and peers because of racial profiling; the one where you explain that the world seems to want them to fail, despite everything they learn on MLK Day and during the month of February about the Civil Rights Movement and how it was supposed to have made everything on this list a moot point; the one where you wonder together which is worse: growing up in abject poverty but surrounded by black people, some who cant parent more children at that time, but some who accept and love you in all your blackness, or growing up in relative wealth, surrounded by white people, some who love you immensely, but some who judge and condemn you for all your blackness?http://www.scarymommy.com/raising-black-children/

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

If having a white patent alleviates racism why is President Obama being referred to as a monkey, an n word or Kenyan instead of biracial or white man

Is a white patent what Edison got when he invented the light bulb

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Is a white patent what Edison got when he invented the light bulb

*Parent* Don't deflect.

If having a white parent alleviates racism why is President Obama being referred to as a monkey, an n word or Kenyan instead of biracial or white man?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

His experience of being abandoned by his black father and being raised by two white people who loved him . Yes white america dealt him a bad hand

Yeah, and the fact his bio mother(who was white) gave him up probably didn't help either. When she came for him, she got dealt with.

http://www.theroot.com/blog/the-grapevine/colin-kaepernicks-birth-mother-scolds-him-on-twitter-over-national-anthem/

Stop that. You're not allowed to bring up WP. Nor use logic.

It's NB going against me. He needs all the help he can get.

[Ban Hammer 13,429]

If having a white patent alleviates racism why is President Obama being referred to as a monkey, an n word or Kenyan instead of biracial or white man

i had no idea someone could do that!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

i had no idea someone could do that!

You running for VP Deflector in Chief?