I don’t want him anywhere near my team.
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Colin Kaepernick looks for a receiver in Friday night’s game. “I don’t think he faces those types of things that we face on a daily basis”.
Kaepernick, a biracial Wisconsin native born to a white mother and black father before being adopted, has caused a national conversation about standing for the national anthem after declining to do so before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers last week. “It’s your inalienable right”, he wrote to Kaepernick for the veteran periodical Army Times. “But even with what he’s doing, he still doesn’t understand the injustices as a Black man, or people of color, that’s what I’m saying”.
“Cops are getting paid leave for killing people”.
“If he really wants to make change, sitting his butt down on the bench, that’s not going to ‘change, ‘” Harrison said. I think that’s what a lot of people saw that as.
“I’m going to speak the truth when I’m asked about it”.
Sensing that may not have come out the way he wanted it to, he kept talking.
One even said the divisive player was more disliked than Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panther who is sitting in jail after plotting to murder his girlfriend. Instead, Harrison took issue with Kaepernick’s depiction of himself as a black man.
“There are certain statistics that are put out there to make sure police profile certain people in certain neighborhoods, and that needs to change”.
Gold medal Olympian and creator of his own controversy back in 1968, Tommie Smith said he supports Kaepernick because he’s bringing the truth out regardless of how it’s done.
We’ve been down this road before. When Jesse Williams spoke out about social justice and racism, some claimed he wasn’t Black enough to do so. What was surprising was what when Harrison point blank stated that the 49ers QB isn’t black. Harrison later apologized, saying he wasn’t aware of Kaepernick’s racial identity. In the National Football League, you can commit career suicide by speaking your mind, with the death blows delivered by cowards who never have to show their faces. Maybe they just don’t have the courage of their convictions.
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Hmm… I guess Harrison’s eyes don’t quite work.
