I'd rather have Satan at QB. https://t.co/jrlKkmf1Tm
— Armando Salguero (@ArmandoSalguero) January 15, 2019
Armando Salguero is a sports reporter who hates Colin Kaepernick.
He has said several racist and demeaning things about Colin Kaepernick over the years, but yet he is still employed by the Miami Herald why is that?
If Salguero said similar things about Tom Brady or even Ryan Tannehill he would be fired. We can no longer have these type of individuals influencing what people things about black athletes who just want themselves and black people to be treated fairly in this country.
Kaepernick, a free agent, is suing the NFL. He claims the league’s owners are intentionally discriminating against him after he jump-started the kneeling-protest movement. (Reminder: Kaepernick initially sat out the National Anthem but switched to kneeling after a group of military veterans suggested he instead take a knee.) Kaepernick is clearly better than some of the linguine-armed ball-tossers playing quarterback at the pro level (ahem, Ryan Tannehill), but the league’s ownership steadfastly denies that teams are passing on Kap just because he believes black people shouldn’t be summarily executed by American cops.
Yet Salguero, who has covered the NFL for many years, just comes out and admits he personally does not want Kaepernick to have a job because of his political views.
He is a right-winger and simply does not like civil rights protesters in football. He has said this explicitly. In September 2017, he wrote two hectoring, terribly written, and nauseating columns telling kneeling players, in general, to shut up. In the first, he ridiculously suggested that players kneeling for the National Anthem but standing for the British national anthem were somehow “betraying” America. The next day, he doubled down in a column titled “Dear Sports: Stick to Sports.” He ranted that he is tired of listening to “social-justice warriors” and at one point said it’s bad for athletes or celebrities to “alienate” the literal neo-Nazi “alt-right.”
(Importantly, Salguero did not “stick to sports” in 2013 when he told a Vietnam War veteran that the guy “sucked as a solider” and that’s why the U.S. “failed in its mission” and lost the war. A Herald editor was forced to apologize on Salguero’s behalf.)
Last year, in language that sure seemed explicitly racist, Salguero referred to NFL players, who are mostly black, as “dogs,” while stating that the majority-white team owners were the players’ “masters.”
It says a lot about a company that would continue to employ a man like this.
Maybe, the Herald feel the same way about black people, because they have co-signed Salguero’s garbage for far too long.
The Herald has released exclusively to BSO stating they regret Salguero’s “flippant comment”. For the record calling someone Satan isn’t flippant.
Colin Kaepernick’s contributions to the discourse about racial injustice and his financial contributions are important and well documented. Salguero’s differences with Kaepernick are not new, and are grounded in a political disagreement over statements Kaepernick has made about his admiration for Fidel Castro. He’s written columns about that issue before. He was asked on Twitter if he thought the Dolphins should pick up Kaepernick “as a cheap quarterback option,” and we regret he responded in a flippant way.
Flip the pages for Salguero’s problematic and racist tweets.