Black people are often put in a box and told they can only do one thing. If they venture out of that they are often treated like they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
It is a lazy narrative and one that is used to systematically try to hold the entire race down.
Imagine if you didn’t get paid for overtime and your boss asks both you and white co-worker to work some extra hours weekend, but you both have something planned.
Which employee’s reputation is that going to hurt the most (spoiler it won’t be the white employee)?
Black people have to work twice hell sometimes 5x harder and we still don’t be treated fairly. No one ever said a white player has chosen to be a good kind person over the NFL, but Kaepernick because he is black has to make a choice. Either help black and poor people or be blackballed by the NFL.
Sports media, who are 90% white are now pushing this narrative because why not, they have pushed every other false narrative to help keep Kaepernick out of the league.
Here are some quotes from Yahoo Sports.
In a flurry of tweets and retweets Monday night, Colin Kaepernick used his sizable social media platform (1.1 million-plus followers) to comment and promote issues concerning police violence involving minorities and the prison-industrial complex, notably the use of inmate labor.
What Kaepernick hasn’t been tweeting about, or speaking about, or granting interviews about is that he remains an unsigned free agent as NFL training camps creep closer and available jobs are being filled. Kaepernick, who once started in a Super Bowl but is most famous for taking a knee during the national anthem last year, is unemployed.
When your perceived-negatives outweigh your perceived-positives though, you’re done.
Yet he doesn’t seem to care … or at least care enough to change his behavior in an effort to ease fears from clearly skittish teams who tend to like quiet, compliant back-ups. The simplest advice for Kaepernick if he wants to play in the NFL next season is to just be quiet.
He won’t be quiet. He won’t back down.
Look at all the coded language and not so coded language.
I can breakdown their entire story in one word.
SHUTUP
That is what they are essentially telling Kaepernick to do. Shut Up talking about real issues in America. Shut Up about the injustices that are happening to black and poor people. Shut Up and stop tweeting about the videos we see every day of black people getting murdered and cops getting away with it.
Just tweet about happy things and be good boy for your NFL masters.
That is clearly what the message is. Women beaters, drug addicts and just horrible people in general will be playing in the NFL this year because as the column says, they are being quiet.
The NFL is showing they have no backbone for racial issues and just want black players to be good little soldiers and damage their brains and bodies for the sport.
Colin Kaepernick didn’t choose activism over the NFL, the NFL chose to ignore racism and police brutality over Kaepernick.
All these columns about what Kaepernick should do to get back in the NFL and none address why Kaepernick isn’t in the NFL now.
It is because he won’t be silent, but the NFL’s silence on signing him SPEAKS VOLUMES.