Colin Kaepernick
No such list can be complete without the mention of Colin Kaepernick – who I believe suffers from the same complex Sefolosha or white athletes face in the predominantly black professional sports industry where they feel perhaps bullied into adherence to the liberal doctrine of identity politics. His official stance on refusing to stand for the National Anthem is this:
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. 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.”
While his official stance on why he is so over-the-top regarding race relations in America is this:
“What do I represent?’ And you know what? My racial heritage is something I want people to be well aware of. I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think: ‘Okay, he’s carrying himself as a black man, and that’s how a black man should carry himself.’”
Being the product of a bi-racial inception and raised by two white adoptive parents in today’s identity politics obsessed world seems to have taken its toll on this confused individual. It seems Kaepernick is hellbent with proving his “blackness” above all else. Being on the receiving end of a good old fashioned white-guilting can be brutal, but Colin clearly has not taken it well. If the “blackest” group in American society today decided it was moving to Pennsylvania to live with the Amish, Kaepernick would have changed his last name to “Yoder” yesterday. His behavior has been an astonishing thing to witness and it’s a microcosm of the insanity taking place in our society today.
