No, I Don't Respect Colin Kaepernick

For those who don't know, Colin Kaepernick, bench-warming quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, just made an ass of himself. As usual, the liberal media is falling all over itself to keep us heathens calm and remind us that liberal sentiments must always be respected. Well, I don't respect him... or them.

For those who don't know, Kaepernick was a flash in the pan quarterback who reached the Super Bowl on the back of tremendous coaching by Jim Harbaugh and a phenomenal defense. That is not to say he didn't look great getting there, but once Harbaugh let, Kaepernick turned to crap overnight and just seems to keep getting worse. He sits on the bench these days and would have been cut last year except for his contract.

So the other day, someone noticed that Crapernick didn't stand during the National Anthem. Apparently, he hasn't been standing all preseason. Why? Well, after equating the American flag with the Confederate flag, he said:

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

Since this time, people have been burning his jersey and making memes about him. He's losing in the court of public opinion about 9 to 1. Of course, the liberal media presents this as, "while some object, some support him too." Yeah, well, if we're going with false logic, then remember that some still support Hitler too. Anyways, I don't respect the bastard and here's why:

1. This man got paid $40 million for throwing a ball. Who is he to complain about anything? And what right does he have to use a platform that isn't even his to draw attention to himself?

2. What a load of crap! Like all Black Lives Matters supporters, he ignores the fact that cops killing black men are a statistical rarity. The real harm to blacks comes from young black predators, of which he says nothing. Like all Black Lives Matters supporters, he ignores the fact that most cops who kill black men were justified in their action, and those who weren't almost always face repercussions. And like all Black Lives Matters, he views the world through a racist lens.

The San Fransisco Police Union, by the way, has responded with figures that should be sobering. Kaepernick and BLM complain about a handful of black deaths each year at the hands of the police. Yet, 40 police officers have been murdered in recent months, more than 100,000 have been assaulted. Moreover, they cite “over 8,000 murders that African Americans have inflicted on one another in 2015.” Where is the real problem?

3. What an ignorant bastard to use a handful of killings each year which the public wants to see punished as a basis to condemn the entire country! This is a country that fought a war to end slavery, that fought a war to end genocide, that made its allies disassemble their empires, which has spent trillions in welfare to help blacks, sends tens of billions each year to help dark-skinned foreigners, has special laws to help blacks in all areas of public life including giving blacks privileges in hiring and schooling. This is a country where whites buy black music, buy the jerseys of black athletes, voted for a black President, intermarry in unheard of numbers in the rest of the world, and where any black person can become obscenely wealthy if they can act, can sing, can play sports, or is willing to work. Try finding ANY of that in Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, or China or any other forgotten corner of the Earth... or anywhere ruled in the name of Islam.

4. Riddle me this too. A number of NFL players have raped women. Using Kaepernick/BLM logic, we could call NFL players as a whole rapists and say the NFL shield stands for rape. Do you think Kaepernick would agree with that? Doubt it. Think he would find that unfair? Probably.

5. This "oppressive" country let him say this crap without arresting him or beating him or anything else.

6. What he said denigrates the sacrifices of every American who has ever fought for this country they believe in. Those black guys who fought in World War II or the Civil War or any other war apparently were fighting for oppression. He's now trying to back out and claim he didn't mean to insult the military, but that's BS. Somehow, I don't think that if I called the NAACP a hate group and then said I only meant "the bad ones" that he would excuse that.

7. What he says energizes the racists and wannabe victims who shot innocent cops in Dallas and Tennessee and who knows where else.

8. If he really cared, why wait to do this until he desperately needed something to make his completely faded star shine again? This reeks of a ploy to get himself cut so he can move on.

Yes, Crapernick had the right to say this. That is what America is about. But I have the right to tell him what I think too. And in that regard, I think he's full of crap.