Comments on: Colin Kaepernick, Black Athletes, and HBCUs.

By: Asani Akida

Asani Akida — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 03:33:37 +0000

…and now…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:51:34 +0000

Wow……..
This article is a joke. This America hating, below average QB should not even be talked about.
Race baiting and not calling things honestly. Very sad. He can’t go away soon enough.

By: ythoodrat

ythoodrat — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:20:24 +0000

I have to admit that I thought of something like that when checking out SEC football depending on black athletes but representing states who always vote Republican even when the Republicans are trying to be slick about targeted disenfranchisement of voting rights.

But, with Kaepernick. It seems to me that he has got his nose wide open to this girlfriend who may have manipulated him into being an activist. I doubt he will ever be a winning QB again as long as he has his nose wide open to the girl who used to bounce with Aldon Smith.

Colin, biologically mixed race, adopted by white parents, never exposed to living in the neighborhoods with the most challenges regarding police and community relations. All of a sudden his Saudi Arabian American girlfriend whose fashion sense would get her imprisoned in Saudi Arabia talks him into an ineffective means of protest that does nothing to solve the problem he claims to care about.

A QB needs to be a leader and Kaepernick has his head in the clouds and lets his girlfriend run his show. She put her message in his head and sacrificed the athletic career of Colin the ingenue.

Kaepernick is a better QB than nearly all of the backup QBs in training camp, but this blackballing is not 100% the stand he took. With a lot of the teams, it is more than 50% that he never cared about taking any political stand until he let this girlfriend run his show.

By: Josiah Rosette

Josiah Rosette — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:10:26 +0000

Very interesting article. I agree with the premise that we should own our own. However, I think that if we want top athletes to go to HBCUs, then HBCUs need to show a commitment into investing into these athletes as close to on par with mid-majors PWI. I went to PWI that is considered a blue-blood of college football, I know first hand that these schools invest a lot of money in these players. Also, the alumni and boosters invest a lot of money into the school and athletic funds. So my question is how are HBCUs going to compete? Are they going increase their recruiting budget? Is their a black millionaire that will lend is private jet to the coach to go see players? Are we as black people going to attend the games? When a PWI offers the coach three times his salary, are HBCUs going to raise the money to match or exceed? With the new league, how are we going to be able to match the salaries of the NBA or NFL? How is the new league going to get over the stigma, that it is an inferior product?
Basically, it comes down to economics. People are going to go where the money is, and I cant blame the players. I think it is easy to tell someone to make a sacrifice when you are not the one walking away from potential millions of dollars

By: HR

HR — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 07:35:01 +0000

This is hilarious stupidity of an article to defend Colin. He’s an America hater and substandard player. Good riddance to him. Perhaps North Korea or Iran will recruit him. He would fit right in.

By: Reality?

Reality? — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 03:57:35 +0000

Well written article and while I am in total agreement with the thesis of your argument it’s built on a false dichotomy meaning that there are only two options for a solution to the current issue that America faces (not just the NFL). The fact that people (unlike “jd” which refers to an obvious group as “those, them, or they” because God forbid that you have to be of a certain nationality or race to recognize a set a factsthag point to a certain theme in this case being systematic racism) are both unwilling to recognize that this about more than just playing football and to deem someone as “un-American” for functioning within his constitutional rights in silence. He didn’t destroy or demean the flag, say anything derogatory that serve this country in the armed forces, or state anything but the obvious that there are some serious issues that needed to be addressed. I believe the course of action you proposed would definitely shake things up and create an immediate demand for change but not only has history proven that we as a people group are have been programmed to stay in line and not challenge the “norm” (generally) but it has also proven that when we did, we were successful, our excellence was seen feared and destroyed (black Wall Street). I won’t be watching or attending and was looking forward to seeing beast mode in action for the silver and black… we need more Richard Sherman’s not afraid to speak out on his behalf!

By: jd

jd — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 02:57:02 +0000

There are FAR more people who don’t want this anti-American playing football. This has nothing to do about race, but no, like always they have to play their race card to demand their way through life.

By: Eric Williams

Eric Williams — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 02:16:49 +0000

Great article I think if all the black athletes would branch off and form their own Football league it would send a huge message to them. It will never happen tho because they too depended on the NFL millions

By: tarik kaintuck

tarik kaintuck — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 02:09:19 +0000

Great piece and we’ll see soon enough the level of seriousness this boycott will be.