Colin Kaepernick compares NFL tryouts to slavery

[NotAnFBIagent]

Trying out to be a millionaire to play a game should never be compared to slavery

 

[315]

They can leave whenever they want or even choose not to participate. He need his ass whooped for saying that

 

[Tribal Outkast]

NFL Players were kidnapped from their homes and forced to abandon their culture, language, philosophy, history, and identity to work for NO pay in a foreign land as someone else's 'property' until they died?

Really?

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It’s unfair to compare football to slavery. I mean people don’t even compare our daily jobs to slavery as much as they do football. These players don’t have to be there.. also, how many players would give up that football life and life like us?

 

[Mike18jj]

Word my great(x4) parents who use to slave on those plantations in South Carolina, Alabama would love to get paid millions to play football.

Man get the fukk out of here, fukking clown

 

[Vandelay]

The optics are fugazi...but everyone there is the of their own volition and set to get paid some major money.

I was watching that last night, he was doing too much there.

 

[EBK String]

im tires of these people who discover they are black late in life being trotted out like they are leaders of black people.

 

[ISO]

Race hustler

 

[ThrobbingHood]

So Kanye was right and slavery was a choice then?

 

[Renegade47]

told yall this nikka was a fraud.

he saw a fukking meme and really recorded this bullshyt like he’s preaching looking in the camera like he’s a revolutionary. i want this cac wiped off the planet.

 

[Doctor Wily]

Slaves didn't recieve partially guaranteed contracts.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Nah for real, fukk Kap. I was with him in the beginning. I really believed he was kneeling for a noble cause but all the bullshyt that has happened since shows he’s just an opportunist.

He played everyone who supported him and got the bag. He had already peaked by the time kneeling took off. Then he started bullshytting when it came to playing again.

Got the bag from Nike and NFL for his silence. What a piece of shyt. I won’t watch one second of this horseshyt to line his pockets.

 

[ball15life]

Just binged the first five episodes with my gf....it's pretty good


The one thing I asked when that scene happened was when did the NFL combine become a thing? It turns out 1982...which is fascinating because that's when the league was starting to become majority Black.

Obviously it's not slavery but I can see where he's coming from.

Also fascinating that people are focusing on literally 30 seconds of a six episode series

 

[Renegade47]

Bruh has officially turned this shyt into a gimmick

it always was a gimmick. me and a couple coli brehs told yall he was a fraud. saw the bullshyt from the jump.

 

[Renegade47]

Trying out to be a millionaire to play a game should never be compared to slavery

exactly.

 

[Bud Bundy]

He is not wrong. Although a better comparison would be Roman Gladiators.