Colin Kaepernick compares NFL tryouts to slavery

[Thegospel]

Dude need to shut the hell up and work with those kids. Goofy self

 

[get these nets]

How can he liken it to slavery when he's been lobbying to go BACK to the league for years?

 

[TRUEST]

I started watching the series off the strength of this thread. It saddens me the premise of the show is lost on a lot of y’all in here arguing over nonsense.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Dummy its factored in as well as skill based shyt

Every major sport has a combine its basic scouting

While some tests obviously do matter—you don't want a running back who can't sprint, for example—”most of the Combine results lack any prediction power for neither draft order nor NFL performance.” Although that sounds jarring at first, it does make sense.Feb 27, 2020

Does the NFL Combine Matter Less Than You Think?


Imagine a black person stupid enough to invest this much energy defending this nonsense

 

[Mission249]

When his protest was at its peak, I was kind of frustrated that he wasn't doing many interviews.

But now that he's talking, him staying silent for so long looks brilliant in retrospect. It bolstered his mystique and people filed the void by thinking he was a brilliant, insightful activist. Now he's making these lazy, pointless cliche'd comparisons. The sports field is the new plantation? Ok...

 

[Thegospel]

The dudes that always got Meek amd Jay in their mouth will be silent

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

You may have a point. But nothing is more cringe then comparing having a choice (combine) to slavery. IMO it lessens what slavery is, which still exist to this day.

I hate to say it but my black folks compare a lot to slavery that's not slavery. Lavelle Crawford said it best, none of us could have survived slavery.

 

[BobbyWojak]

Sure, lots of American traditions and social events are an extension of plantation culture.

Hating on Colin is 100% a cac trait, I'm not saying you have to agree with everything he says but what kind of black person shyts on Cap. He's not that deep but he has a lot of young kids who play football rightfully thinking that race shouldn't be a taboo subject in sports.

 

[Pazzy]

And i got warning points for calling kapernick a fraud recently, i believe. Yall see what im saying? Hes a FRAUD that works as controlled opposition with shaun king, deray mckesson, and all these known FRAUDS. YALL EXPOSE YALLSELVES WHEN YALL DEFEND HIM WHEN HE SLIPS UP. He slipped up long before this. This fool tried to trademark his afro, look it up.

 

[get these nets]

NHL Combine segment
National Hockey League

 

[Smokin Rider]

I knew this is why he never spoke on anything, as soon as he would open his mouth it was gonna expose he didn't know what he was talking about. Kneeling was honorable and I'm glad he did it but he never came across like a leader of a movement, he just kicked it off.

 

[Capital Steez]

let's put aside the messenger and just deal with the message, i'll explain it to you. we can't be myopic & start speaking about being forced to work against your will for nothing while being whipped, beaten, raped, tortured VS voluntarily signing up for a professional sports league to make millions. we get that, ok? but you're discussing a blade of grass & not the entire forest. the point being made is that the combine for tom brady is NOT the same combine for donovan mcnabb. peep this:


PHILADELPHIA — The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.

The practice made it harder for Black retirees to show a deficit and qualify for an award. The standards were created in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way they were used to determine payouts in the NFL concussion case.



do yall understand now? this league actually said well the n*gg*rs are dumb animals who start out with lower cognitive functioning anyway so when it is measured in retirement? give jerome bettis less money than mike alstott even though have the same cognitive functioning score. because jerome's was low to begin with based on being dumb & black and mike's was higher based on being smart & white. WOW these devils


so this scientifically racist deterministic sociobiology akin to the bell curve permeates EVERY FACET OF THE NFL INCLUDING THE NFL COMBINE. biracial jafar with the blassic lionel richie in the commodores afro is right b. no matter how you feel about him personally

That NFL curtain will get pulled fully back once those owner emails keep leaking. This is all 100% fact.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

This is clown status. Trying out for the nfl is NOT compulsory so any argument otherwise is fukking retarded.

Not to mention the benefit of status. If it's so terrible and close to slavery, why did he voluntarily take part in organized football his whooe life

 

[CW_1991]

Colin Kaepernick once again regurgitating shyt that's already been talked about. And the argument really doesn't hold up that well when you factor in that these dudes are a living high-status lives. Their employees.

Dude is an attention whore. His whole angle is being controversial and talking bunch of shyt with no real plan. Nothing but some privileged tortured mulatto that came from an upper middle class white family.

 

[Ribbs]

The problem with this analogy is that it's open to everyone. They're not forcing you to do it.

The most famous combine picture is of Tom Brady so I get what he's trying to say but it falls flat once you realize all sports do this.