Colin Kaepernick Just The Latest To Piss Of White Supremacists .…..

Before Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr became a civil rights icon and a larger than life leader for social justice, he was a boxer who won a gold medal at the age of 18 in the light heavy-weight division in the summer Olympics held in Rome in 1960.

Not long after that Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali and con­vert­ed to Islam. Ali said he changed his name because it was his slave name. This did not sit will with the white pow­er struc­ture who saw the ram­bunc­tious Ali as a loud­mouthed “nig­ger” who need­ed to be put in his place.
By 1964 Ali had won the heavy­weight cham­pi­onship of the world by beat­ing Sonny Liston. Many whites who came from fam­i­lies with con­nec­tions got defer­ments includ­ing the Republican can­di­date for pres­i­dent Donald Trump. They were above dying in the jun­gles of south-east Asia, but in 1966 they decid­ed to draft Ali into the United States Army, despite the fact that blacks were over­whelm­ing­ly over-rep­re­sent­ed in the Army and dying in Vietnam.

Ali stead­fast­ly refused to go fight in Vietnam, argu­ing that the Vietnamese had nev­er called him “nig­ger”. He also said going to war and killing peo­ple who had done him no harm was con­trary to his reli­gious beliefs.
This is what the white pow­er struc­ture want­ed to hear. Ali was arrest­ed on draft eva­sion charges in 1966 and stripped of his box­ing titles, he was convicted.
Ali appealed his con­vic­tion and the con­vic­tion was even­tu­al­ly over­turned by the US Supreme Court in 1971 . By this time Muhammad Ali had been out of the box­ing ring for four years and had lost all abil­i­ty to earn a liv­ing through his craft .
Muhammad Ali became an icon for his exploits in the ring but more so for stand­ing up for him­self , his prin­ci­ples and for whats right.
Before his pass­ing Ali walked and rubbed shoul­ders with pres­i­dents and pau­pers, he was loved and respect­ed by hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple around the world.
Back in his home­land many unashamed evoked his name as they evoke Dr King’s, though they want­ed him to rot in prison for refus­ing to fight in a war that had noth­ing to do with him.

I real­ized from a young age that there were men and then there were oth­ers who looked like men. I real­ized that when the man things need to be done they would have to be done by the man and those who look like men might not agree in what had to be done. nev­er­the­less they would ben­e­fit from the results as much or even more than those who fought the fight.
Neither Malcolm X nor Dr King nor Stokely Carmichael nor any of the stal­warts of the 60’s lived to see the fruits of their labor.
Some of the most stri­dent crit­ics of King and Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali looked like men and they cer­tain­ly had black skin.
Most of those who refused to take a stand or even lift a fin­ger in their own defense lived to see an America where they could look a white woman in the face with­out being lynched. They got to see an America where they did not have to step off the side­walk so that some white per­son could walk freely with­out shar­ing that sidewalk.

San Francisco 49ers quar­ter­back Colin Kaepernick need not be deterred by the bar­rage of insults, threats and faux indig­na­tion that he would dare refuse to stand at the singing of the nation­al anthem.
He need not give cre­denc to the bull­shit fake equa­va­lence that his stand­ing against police barasim against blak lifes is some­how tan­ta­mount to dis­re­spect for troops who served in for­eign wars.
What the hell does the one has to do with the oth­er, oth­er than that it offers a mas­sive dis­trac­tion for the forces of evil who does not give a shit about the killings by police and the lack of accountability.
Every mem­ber of the mil­i­tary who fights in a war does so of his or her own voli­tion. No one is forced to sign up . When one joins the mil­i­tary it is noble , it is com­mend­able , but it must nev­er be con­fused with oth­ers giv­ing up their right to free speech because of the choic­es they made.
There is no law which makes it manda­to­ry for any­one to stand at the sign­ing of the anthem , if Kaepernick choses to sit it’s his right to do so.

The Television net­works can be count­ed on to find a nev­er-end­ing stream of dressed up melanin infused self hat­ing uncle toms to say why they love to stand up and pay homage to the flag and the anthem. Never mind that when they get in their cars they get their ass­es kicked by any lit­tle cop with an attitude.
The black uncle toms who come out against Kaepernick make me more sick that the likes of Donald Trump the police gangs which oper­ate as unions and the legions of self acclaimed patri­ots whose claim to fame is big­otry and debase­ment of others.
As the days progress there will be even more ver­min crawl­ing out of the sew­ers, drip­ping with self-right­eous indig­na­tion. How dare Kaepernick not believe what they believe? How dare he crit­i­cize their mil­i­ta­rized jack-boot­ed killers who taze 84-year-old great grand moth­ers and kill 90-year old great grand fathers.
Yah how dare he crit­i­cize them because after all it’s their coun­try right ?
After all they are patri­ots who tie pride and nation­al­ism to a flag and an anthem which cel­e­brates slav­ery but lacks the com­mon decen­cy to rec­og­nize their neigh­bors humanity.