McCarron >< Kaepernick

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(05-14-2017, 09:42 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote:  Lebron, Wade and Carmelo supported the same cause without making an ass of themselves.

And none of them had said a peep about anything until Kaepernick embarrassed then into it.

It is ridiculous to say people who have something to protest about should do it in some seecret place where no one will see them.  the whole point of a protest is to draw attention to an issue.

So Kaepernick was very successful on that level.  He shamed the big stars into making public statements.

Onre of my all time favorite sports figures is Mohammed Ali.  He was a great boxer, but I respect him more for taking a stand against the Viet Nam war when it looked like it would end his career.  Back then he faced the same type of criticism as Kaepernick.  "Just shut up an entertain us!  You are not allowed to have any personal convictions."

I seriously doubt that Kaepernick protest will go down in history the same as Ali's, but the fact remains that Ke was willing to harm his own career to stand up for what he believed in.  I can not believe so many people hate him  for that.

Colin never tried to stop anyone else from standing for the anthem.  He never did anything to interrupt the anthem or interfere on anyway with what anyone else was doing.  He made it very clear that he was NOT protesting against soldiers defending the country.  He did nothing to bother anyone EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH HIS POSITION.

If he had been screaming during the anthem or blocking streets or something like that then I could understand why people would be mad at him.  But all he did was take part in a peaceful quiet protest.  Our country was founded by "protestors".  Mass public protests helped lead to womens' right to vote, the Civil rights Act, and the end of the Viet Nam war.  Protest is an important part of civil liberty.  We can't just make a rule that every athlete and entertainer has to give up their rights..

We can't elect a President who won because he said America was "broken" and then punish an athlete for saying the same thing.