My goodness. Whitlock honestly knows what he's doing at this point.
For someone to be that deep in catering to white supremacy is scary. The funny thing is, we're not even talking about the original reason as to why Kaep protested, but I feel like that's EXACTLY what these supremacists wanted. They wanted to dilute the message so much that we're where we are now, debating hair and other pointless crap.
I don't hate Vick, I do think he was trying to help in the only way he knew how. When Vick was in trouble, people like (probably) Tony Dungy and the like, were telling him, "you have to change your image" and things like that "if you want to play in this league again, reinvent yourself and your image." and the sort. That's the only way he knew how to "help" Kaep, because that's how THEY let him back in the league. What I think he doesn't understand is that maybe to SOME people, playing in this NFL and now realizing what it really stands on/for and how they treat their "employees" isn't their goal anymore. That it wouldn't bother some people to further their message/cause and NOT play
We've talked about it but the difference was, Vick was coming off criminal proceedings and real prison time. Kaep took a knee. There's no "image" he needs to repair, if you listened to what he said from jump, he just wanted a change in policing in this country. Hell, he didn't even do it for attention, he was sitting quietly, then was discovered and that's the moment when his message started to become diluted or purposely taken out of context. We don't like uncomfortable debates in this country, we like to pretend everything is swell and sweep the undesired talk out the door. So from jump, they started to attack, not the message, but EVERYTHING else surrounding it.
-"There's better ways to protest"
-"Take politics out of our sports"
-"He hates the flag/country/soldiers who did SOOOOOOO much for him to be here"

-"Look at the pig socks"
-"He didn't vote"
They allowed the flag, soldiers, and the anthem to become the focal points of the argument when that was never the issue. They allowed them "ALL LIVES MATTER" people to come in and muddy up the message, and take the heat off of police in this country disproportionately killing minorities and getting away with it.
People like Whitlock are dangerous. He said Charlamagne was, but it's HIM that's the danger.
He aids these white supremacist networks and people and hell, the NFL by proxy, to chastise and critique black men and gives them the, "See, even your own people agree with us" type of rhetoric to use against us. That divide and conquer tactic is still alive and well today.
Sorry for the long post/rant but Whitlock video really pissed me off, and got under my skin. Mad I even clicked cuz I KNEW it was gonna be some bullcrap