The deadskins

This is the week that was in the National Fucked (up) League:

The Washington Redskins, the organization with the racist team name, were the only team to pick up one Reuben Foster, who had been released last week by the 49ers (about a year too late, truthfully) who has now been accused of domestic violence twice (in fairness, the first charges were dropped, though there's something not quite kosher about the dropping of the accusation).

And then, after having a second quarterback lost for the season due to injury, the Redskins declined to sign noted national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick as a backup because he doesn't fit into their system (which seems to be the go to answer for not signing Kaepernick among all teams in the NFL--amazing he guided a team to the Super Bowl considering how ill suited he is to NFL offensive systems, isn't it?).

So this is the message the NFL is sending to our kids:  Beat a woman and you can have a job, but if you exercise your constitutionally protected right to free speech by taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial inequality, you cannot be employed in the NFL.

Completely.  Fucking.  Clueless.

Fuck Donald Trump
emaycee

Downright dainty

The protesting is not new--nor unwarranted

In light of Nike's decision to put Colin Kaepernick at the forefront of its thirtieth anniversary campaign, Trump supporters are absolutely losing their shit (possibly because it's not their kids cops are killing with the government's blessing) and burning or ripping up perfectly good shoes and clothing because nothing hurts Nike more than idiots burning their own clothing and footwear that they themselves paid good money for.

And all of this because Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the national anthem to protest the abysmal treatment of African-Americans in this country.

A protest guaranteed by the first amendment of our constitution.

And yet for all their symbolic idiocy, they should consider themselves lucky--unless things change, a day is coming when taking a knee during the national anthem is going to seem downright dainty.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

A true American hero

One man who made a difference

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that Colin Kaepernick is not currently on a National Football League team roster because he's no longer the player he once was.  There are at least four to five starting quarterbacks in the NFL (including the starting QB for Kaepernick's former team, the 49ers) right now that are not as good as Kaepernick, and that's not even counting the thirty-two for the most part no name backup quarterbacks employed in the NFL.

And it begs the question:  what would you be willing to give up to take a knee for your beliefs?

Granted, Kaepernick signed a very lucrative contract a few years back and likely isn't going to be homeless any time soon.  Still, he spent a lifetime preparing to become an NFL player, realized his dream, and then lost his dream because he had the courage to stand up for his beliefs, the courage to say that African-Americans deserve better than they are receiving from their country and its leaders.

 He started a movement, one that's making America and Americans better.

And that's a hell of a lot more than one can say about that son of a bitch Donald Trump and his minions.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee