OPINION:
Colin Kaepernick, of national-anthem-hating, take-the-knee, pig-socks-wearing fame, says he’s ready to lead an NFL team, any NFL team, any ol’ NFL team that’ll give him a chance — to victory — capital V for Victory! — to Super Bowl victory! What a guy.
And all the NFL owners and managers go: Who? At least, they should
Such should be the fate of the far-leftist delusional types who use their million-dollar salaried and celebrity jobs for political activism. Kaepernick in 2016 decided to use his football field golden egg opportunity to agitate against police brutality and against racist police and against discriminatory police policies and basically against police in general who were just trying to do their jobs.
He used the fake “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” style of protesting — you know, the narrative that developed from the thing that never happened in Ferguson, Missouri, when Black suspect Michael Brown attacked White police officer Darren Wilson, and was subsequently shot and killed, and all the leftists cried racism! — and the now-worn and weary “take a knee” display during the game field playing of the national anthem as a means of showing his disgust with law enforcement; with America; with the government of America.
He kept up his public politicization of football throughout the pregame season, even wearing socks with cartoon images of pigs in police hats on the practice field.
As Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations told USA Today Sports in response to the pig socks: “It’s just ridiculous that the same league that prohibits the Dallas Cowboys football club from honoring the slain officers in their community with their uniforms stands silent when Kaepernick is dishonoring police officers with what he’s wearing on the field.”
Yes.
Great point.
Enabling Kaepernick wasn’t the NFL’s best move. It didn’t serve Kaepernick so well, either. He’s not been playing since 2016-2017. But he wants back in — so much so that he will overlook what he’s described as the slave auction-like selection process of the draft.
“In the series ‘Colin: In Black & White,’ which Kaepernick narrates, the former [San Francisco] 49er appears in a scene where he talks about NFL prospects being ‘poked, prodded and examined’ for defects before the NFL draft. The players at the ‘combine’ then leave the NFL field and enter a mid-1800s slave auction where white landowners examine slaves for purchase. In the scene, Kaepernick says this is how ‘they’ establish a ‘power dynamic,’” as Breitbart reported.
Well, if Kaepernick thinks that’s bad, he ought to see how the military recruits.
Anyhow: Kaepernick, in Paris at the Olympics, said he’s been training his “whole life” for the NFL, “so to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment, a major accomplishment for me.” He also said he “could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.”
Kaepernick had his chance.
He had the brass ring. He had the golden key. He had the gold egg. He wasn’t even that good.
Regardless, he had his chance and he threw it back in the faces of the fans, the coaches, the management, the NFL organization. And he did so in the ugliest of manners — by advancing narratives that are anti-American, anti-police and utterly elitist.
Perhaps Kamala Harris and her campaign could use him to run slogans and spout slurs in ads to condemn Donald Trump supporters. But the NFL? Kaepernick spat in fans’ faces for selfish and self-centered reasons. He blew his quarterback career. His football days are at an end. And that’s where they should stay.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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