I Was Kaepernick's Lawyer. I Remember What Trump Did.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Written by Ben Meiselas

As we head into the weekend, you may catch an NFL game. I want to reflect on that for a moment. Before I started MeidasTouch, I was a litigator, and in 2017, I served as the lead lawyer for NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick peacefully took a knee to show respect for unarmed Black and brown people who were killed by police.

At first, the NFL supported Kaepernick taking a knee. But then, in September 2017, Donald Trump gave a speech in Huntsville, Alabama, saying, “Get that son of a bitch off the field,” and claimed Kaepernick’s protest was anti-American. MAGA forces attacked Kaepernick, arguing that his protest insulted the National Anthem and the military.

Kaepernick never played in the NFL again.

The same people who attacked Kaepernick and LeBron James—telling Black athletes to “shut up and dribble”—are now encouraging NFL players to do Donald Trump’s idiotic YMCA dance. A propaganda campaign is underway to turn the NFL and all professional sports into a political arm of Trump. This is straight out of the fascist playbook.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/i-was-kaepernicks-lawyer-i-remember

[Irish_Dem]

1. Every American institution will be weaponized and damaged.

A wrecking ball is being taken to the USA.

[CrispyQ]

3. And we're gonna hand it over to them knowing full well what they're going to do.

I know, I know. What else can we do, & that's the way democracy works, & it won't be that bad, & you've got to keep fighting. I've read it all & I'm still sick, sick, sick that we're gonna just hand them 250 years of blood, sweat, & tears so they can shit on it.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes this is a tragedy of epic proportions and heartbreaking.

We have been tricked in to handing our country over to Russia and American psychopaths.
We have been sold out for money and power.

The greatest democracy in the history of the world.
Gone.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Some of them - but not us

We have been tricked in to handing our country over to Russia and American psychopaths

I know there are people right here at DU that want us to center and be conciliatory to those people. I'm not.

THEY did this. THEM. And they weren't tricked. They know what and who they voted for.

[Irish_Dem]

12. You have misunderstood by comment.

The US was tricked because the election was stolen in such a way that we cannot fight back
and question it.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. I'm so sorry

Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

6. Yes. What you said.

[oldmanlynn]

14. Not if we get off our butts and get out there and fight back protest

In reality, it is comfort to be here in the Democratic underground and hear similar people but at some point, it’s got to be taken out there into the streets and maybe Trump will make a mistake and put the military on us and kill some people and then the shit storm will happen.

Part of me says you have to provoke them to make mistakes and then make their mistakes, political nightmare

The only thing I see missing seems to be damn leaders. I don’t know where they’re at. I know that the Kentucky governor was down here in New Orleans, talking to Louisiana Democrats, but where are all the other leaders they should be out there and outspoken

[a kennedy]

2. I hate this son of a bitch gonna be potus. Can't even look at his gawd damn face anymore.

I TOTALLY DESPISE HIM and I’m so afraid for this country, and I will NEVER forgive that son of a bitch for EVERYTHING. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[ShazzieB]

10. Here's good old Charlie Brown, summing up my thoughts on the natter,

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[Basso8vb]

4. Kaep was right.

[C0RI0LANUS]

7. Colin Kaepernick never had a chance. And he was taught to respectfully kneel at the flag by a US military veteran.

The US sports empire insidiously linked blind patriotism to football, baseball, basketball, etc etc. Mr. Kaepernick never had a chance. And how many NFL teams could have used a mobile, talented NFC Champion QB these past several years? (The 49ers lost that classic Sibling Superbowl to the Ravens).

Does any European country open up a soccer, hockey, or basketball game with a national anthem or military display? I lived in Europe years ago and don't remember.







(Full disclosure: I carried a rifle as an Honor Guard for a basketball game last century).

Source:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/09/646115651/the-veteran-and-nfl-player-who-advised-kaepernick-to-take-a-knee

[red dog 1]

9. From the OP

"I don't think I would have ever started the Meidas Touch Network if I hadn't witnessed Kaepernick's courage firsthand and seen the power one person's voice can have on the country and the world.
So if you're watching the NFL or college football this weekend, I encourage you to reflect on Kaepernick's bravery and what it meant for our country."

Ben Meiselas

[NewEnglandAutumn]

11. Files papers indicating you are running for potus

Then claim immunity

[Mr. Evil]

13. Every professional athlete has no idea of the power they have.

If they all stood tall and said, "I will not play as long as that criminal is in office," guess what would would happen. People love their football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, volleyball, women's basketball, women's soccer. Hell, even Pickleball, more than they give a shit about TSF.

The people would revolt. If college football suddenly shut down... guess what would happen.

[FakeNoose]

16. Aren't many of the team owners ultra-wealthy, and many are Chumpers?

Even if they don't agree with Chump, I'm sure most of them voted for him anyway. If that's the case then the athletes would be pissin' in the wind, and perhaps even throwing their careers away.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

17. But the Jan 6 thugs weren't disrespectful to the USA?

The blatant hypocrisy is unfathomable.

[returnee]

18. Anyone know what Kaepernick is up to these days?

Maybe the NY Giants could bring him back into the game. Couldn’t do any worse.