Colin Kaepernick, The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery

It looks like Kap might have started a movement. More players are joining him in his protest. We'll see if it continues to grow.

 

I suspect he is really just worried about getting game checks and not getting cut. How much does he get paid for every game?
I believe he had a 6 year $116 million contact that required him to make the team for the full 6 years.

Any sports fans out there know the details?

 

I suspect you just made that up, AND regardless, Woodrow Wilsons views have no effect upon the meaning of the song.

Even more Blacks fought on the side of the US. And it is no more racist against blacks, then it is racist against the white hirelings. NOT AT ALL.

 

It was a protest based upon a lie when the players came out into the stadium with their hands up in the air in St Louis, and it is still based upon a lie when they refuse to stand for the national anthem.

 

And then, there is the real world

Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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And I still want to know ???? What assumption?

 

The meaning of the song is that any indentured servant or slave who dared fight for his freedom should be terrorized and killed. The song is about freedom for white men. Everyone else needed to be terrorized and killed if they fight for their own freedom.

Sure, blacks fought on the side of the slavers who kept them in life-long bondage. They sure didn't get anything for their blood and suffering. Dummies always fight against their own self-interests and support their oppressors. That's been true since the first two men met in pre-historic times.

 

Thanks for quoting that since it proves my point. As you can read, it plainly says that slavery is legal in the USA. So it is perfectly legal for the State to use every convict as slave labor doing whatever the State wants him to do, including picking cotton by hand.

 

Prison work detail isnt slavery

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No its not. You have a fertile imagination, combined with being blinded by your ideology.

 

Maybe you've hit upon a perfect solution that can applied to a lot of various situations. Say that there's a KKK rally going on. Get a band together and go sing the national anthem. They'll have to stop and remove their hoods and place their hands over their hearts as a sign of allegiance to the US flag instead of to the Stars and Bars.

Or suppose there's a riot or mass demonstration going on. The same tactic could be used to break the flow.

Or suppose the cops are choking a guy to death on the streets of NYC. A person could whip out his handy flag and start belting out the national anthem and the cops, being the patriotic fellows that they are, should immediately stop chocking their unlucky victim to death and jump to attention.

It seems that you have provided the perfect solution to a lot of various situations. Just pop out your handy flag and start singing the national anthem. And if you can't sing just hit the play button on your antique boom box and play
Lori O’Brien's rendition. I tell you, it'll bring the most whacked out thug or crazed cop to his feet in a heartbeat. http://www.atlantaspecialevents.com/our-company/lori-obrien/national-anthem-singer/

Don't play any of these versions unless you want to add to the mayhem. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/09/03/top-5-worst-butcherings-of-the-national-anthem/

 

You said his black birth parents. His bio mom is white.

 

Colins mom was white. He was adopted by two white parents, after his own parents didn't want him. He was given all of the opportunities this country has to offer. Made it to the NFL! Now after being benched, he feels rejected. So he makes it about race. Grows an an afro and jumps in with Black Lives Matter. He is having an identity crisis and needs to see a shrink, but don't drag the rest of us into it.

 

Nothing new:

 

The protest is spreading.

"US Soccer Star Joins Kaepernick in National Anthem Protest"
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/us-soccer-star-joins-kaepernick-national-anthem-protest-41869892

*The video has a commercial at the start.

Kap's jersey is very popular with the fans.

 

There is a whole chunk of American society who buy into the narrative that says that the United States is not a great country, that our ideals and our Constitution somehow fail to live up to some idealized image of the way things should be. I'm sorry, but even with all of our problems, this republic still offers the greatest hope for decent self governance, our Bill of Rights is still the envy of many people the world over, and our system of checks and balances continues to serve us well. That should be reason enough to stand during the playing of the national anthem; Kaepernick and the copy cats should be thankful they live in a society which tolerates their stupidity.

 

America has never been great. It's not great now. It might be great some time in the future.

By constantly disparaging people who say that it needs to improve only serves to prove that it isn't great. And calling for their punishment shows that it has a very long way to go before it will ever be great.

Why should people whose ancestors were terrorized and murdered for daring to fight for their own freedom celebrate a song that boasts about depriving them of freedom and that was imposed upon the country by the most racist President in American history?

Right now the protest against the slaver's song is growing. It may dies out or it may continue to grow. We'll see.

 

I'm guessing you are a world traveler with lots of countries under your belt with which to compare the U.S.

 

LOL! What an idiot! Hahaha!

 

Other countries suck, so what? The issue is about how much America sucks. Other countries don't throw out a bunch of BS like America does. The Star Spangled Banner was written by a slaver who boasts about terrorizing and murdering slaves who wanted to be free. It was imposed on the country by the most obnoxious racist President of all, Woodrow Wilson. And it took 40 attempts to get Congress to make it the national anthem.

 

Gonna need a translation on that one. Point out the killing blacks thing in a poem written about defense against the British.

Currently, I am assuming this is another case of seeing racism everywhere.

 

Are you trying to argue current democrats are liberals?

 

The British had mercenaries and slaves fighting. The poem states that neither were spared in their attack against the US.

 

Do you guys even understand context?

 

Yes, or at least much more so than democrats.

 

Where do you live Wyrd? Do you live in the US?