Colin Kaepernick IS The American Dream

[Jesus Is Lord]

This was MUCH needed!

 

[Malta]

TBE.

 

[Steezy]

the fluidity..the penmanship.


We need to have a "Home of Walt" hanging somewhere on the banner. He's done it again

 

[Robert California]

Instead of a hardworking, ultra-talented success story, Kaepernick has been cast as an ungrateful charity case who should be happy someone pays him a salary.

 

[BrehWyatt]

@Walt is what I wish I could have been during my time in sportswriting.

 

[Savior]

No dikkriding but outside of novelists Ive never seen a person with such mastery of words. to you man

 

[Verbal Kint]

Instead of a hardworking, ultra-talented success story, Kaepernick has been cast as an ungrateful charity case who should be happy someone pays him a salary. In America, a high-paying job is a right for some, but a “privilege” to many others — rhetoric naked in its racism. The expected exchange for success should not be silence and acquiescence. Colin Kaepernick sits for his and our right to have a voice.

Colin Kaepernick sits because he is a team player; he understands his guaranteed millions don’t exempt him from caring about the psychic health of his country and the plight of the underclass. This is a principled and noble stand, not an arrogant one. The nasty reactions prove his freedom and societal value are contingent on him playing his expected part in the bread and circus of professional football. Once he stepped outside of his role as spectacle, the illusion of his freedom was revealed and replaced by calls for censorship. His critical, independent thought became an affront, rather than a virtue.

 

[wire28]

Walt fukked around and did it again!

 

[D-NICE]

@Walt been killing it these last few weeks

 

[Regular_P]

Damn good read.

 

[The War Report]

I'm tired of the nonsense that our military is fighting to "protect our freedoms." They fight to protect the interests of the United States government. Let's not act like these "interests" didn't cause a lot of pain and suffering to people abroad. These soldiers fight to protect their comrades, not some a$$hole named Joe somewhere not giving a shyt about what's going outside of his bubble. I also find it funny that the white people that are complaining about this are the same people that won't hesitate a second to fight the federal government over what they perceived to be as oppression by the government.

 

[calh45]

Kaep gives no fukks, it's like he knew his career was going to be over so he said fukk it

Nah. He's been like this for a while past few years. He usually goes in on twitter. This is the first time he's done something during/before a game where people couldn't ignore it.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Busy day at work, but I'm sure some hate mail will flow my way when I check in later.

Share some with us

 

[mastermind]

This is not a nation that cares much about its veterans or its football icons beyond invoking them either when they are neutered by a retrofitted narrative, or death, so I wasn’t surprised to see so many people posit Pat Tillman as a foil to Kaepernick, though the sacrifices Tillman made for his country were rewarded by an undignified demise at the hands of American troops, and a reprehensible cover-up by military leaders. Colin Kaepernick sits for Pat Tillman and his family, too.

As I watched a 49er fan burning Kaepernick’s jersey, I remembered one of my college professors lamenting the murder of a young classmate who’d put herself in a situation that seemed unthinkable. What she said then has always stayed with me, haunted me: “In a society that despises intelligence and justice, our brightest lights are prone to self-immolation.” Kaepernick sits because he is one of our brightest lights, and he empathizes with that slow, gradually intensifying, inward burning so many of us — black and brown and white, male and female, oppressed and conscientious — understand well.

@Walt with another gem.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Ann Coulter ain't got shyt on @Walt



































But All this time I was raised to believe that that Dusty Rhodes was the American Dream