Colin Kaepernick — a man I believe is well-intentioned.

He started a revolution in the NFL by kneeling to protest an en masse epidemic that, according to studies, was not occurring.

Many others followed suit. Hence, bad ratings for the NFL and a good sized mess.

Fast-forward to Kaepernick no longer with a team.

AP writer Paul Newberry wants Colin to have less time to protest and more time to run and toss a ball: He suggests the league’s social justice warriors go on strike until somebody — anybody — hires Kaepernick and fellow knee-taker Eric Reid.

Newberry recommends:

“Maybe a one-day sickout during training camp. Or kneeling en masse before the first game. Perhaps, as a last resort, they should consider an actual strike.”

Despite criticism from some, the media have praised Kaepernick as a hero of justice.

But that hasn’t offset the NFL’s bank account. Newberry believes Colin and Eric have been blocked out of the NFL due to the impact of their political activism:

“[The league’s unwillingness to hire them] is a clear warning to [the NFL’s] employees that only so much social activism will be tolerated even while it feigns a sense of respecting their desire to protest during the national anthem. If the NFL were really concerned about its players, it wouldn’t be denying these two their well-earned right to make a living. Rest assured, history won’t be kind when it looks back on the way Kaepernick and Reid were treated by the NFL.”

I’d say we’re talking about more than just “making a living” — Colin Kaepernick is worth $20 million. The average individual annual income in the U.S. is $27,000.

Therefore, if an average adult works from the ages of 25 to 75, Colin Kaepernick has already made 15 lifetime livings. 

As for Newberry’s assessment of the unfair NFL, Colin agrees — he’s suing the league, and he may try to subpoena the President of the United States (read here).

It seems to me everyone in the situation can express their opinions, and that’s fair. Players have the right to kneel, if allowed by their teams and the league. Football fans have the right to stay home — or change the channel — if players, in their view, disrespect the National Anthem. And if they wear socks portraying police officers as pigs.

Just as Colin has the right to wear them.

The right of anyone to make a living playing football? I gotta hand it to Paul Newberry — it’s a bold claim.

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