Kaepernick Reportedly Ready and Willing To Play for NFL Team His Supporters Slam as Racist
Ah, irony. It truly is wasted on the stupid.
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, there is a deeply divisive quarterback named Colin Kaepernick who has an ongoing collusion grievance against the NFL.
Kaepernick rose to notoriety not for his play on the field, but when he began kneeling for the national anthem in 2016. Otherwise, he’s mostly just the guy who lost a Super Bowl after taking Alex Smith’s starting roster spot on the San Francisco 49ers.
Some people support Kaepernick’s protests, while many others find them the ultimate form of disrespect.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick explained to NFL.com at the start of the 2016 NFL season. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
Kaepernick has frequently made racially charged comments since then.
When he’s not calling police officers modern-day slave wranglers, he’s spending the Fourth of July complaining about how Americans robbed his “ancestors.” And the less said about Kaepernick’s equally radical girlfriend comparing NFL owners to slave owners, the better.
As is readily apparent, Kaepernick clearly likes to think of himself as a heroic crusader against all forms of racism.
Well, apparently, not all forms of supposed racism.
According to a Yahoo Sports report, Kaepernick is ready to suit up for any NFL team — and the sources stressed to Yahoo that that includes the Washington Redskins.
On paper, it certainly makes sense. The Redskins lost their starting quarterback, the aforementioned Smith, to a gruesome leg injury, and Smith’s backup, Colt McCoy, soon saw his season end the same way. The team is in desperate need of some playmaking from the most important position in football. The current backups in place, Mark Sanchez and Josh Johnson, are … not great, to put it politely. That’s not to say Kaepernick is particularly great, but I digress.
As we have heard for years, many people — including a number of Kaepernick supporters — think the “Redskins” moniker is racist.
At the risk of upsetting their racist fans, The Washington Redskins have decided to field a bad product and blow any chance at the playoffs. Josh Johnson is probably a good person but he has no business in the #NFL while @Kaepernick7 sits at home. #SWOP
— J. MOORE (@JMonthemic) December 9, 2018
#racist @Redskins would rather sit on the couch in January than sign @Kaepernick7 probably also involved in @realDonaldTrump #collusion too.
— Traveling Coffee Guy (@caphetraveler) December 7, 2018
Redskins racist for not picking up Colin Kap.
— LIL SQUEAK (@MrTarik540) December 5, 2018
It would be beyond ironic for Kaepernick to join the Redskins. The self-proclaimed warrior for racial equality suiting up for a team and owner that so many of his fans find racist? You can’t make this stuff up.
To be clear, Washington coach Jay Gruden has made it rather clear that the team has no interest in signing Kaepernick.
As The Washington Post notes, Gruden said the Redskins thought about reaching out to Kaepernick but passed on it.
“It’s just going to be a matter of which way do we want to go?” Gruden said Tuesday. “Do we want to go with a guy that’s familiar with my terminology who we worked out last week … or go with a guy and teach, basically, a whole new kind of offense with new offensive linemen with a lot of the zone reads and all that stuff? Not a lot of time to really get a brand new quarterback, a new system installed and taught in a couple days of practice. …
“(Kaepernick’s) been talked about and discussed, but we’ll probably go in a different direction.”
“When you’re talking about a backup quarterback this late in the game, you want someone with a similar skill set to the quarterback you have,” he added.
It’s certainly interesting to know that Kaepernick’s “wokeness” has a price. That price, it turns out, is a roster spot.
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