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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kaepernick is a person who risked, and probably lost, a great career in order to stand on his principles.  That is a great lesson and ethical discussion for young people to have.  Recognizing this is not a judgment or approval of his moral character, it is simply stating facts.[/quote]
Prior to kneeling, Kaepernick was not a particularly marketable athlete. Post-protest, he landed a "star" level contract with Nike that puts him in the top tier of NFL earners in terms of endorsement money. So while what you say is somewhat true, it's not like he really sacrificed himself economically. [/quote]

I don't think that's fair. I think that he took a risk to stand (read: kneel) for his principles. It ended up working out well for him economically. That was not a foregone conclusion. It is particularly cynical to imply that CK did what he did to get endorsement money.[/quote]
I'm not cynically saying that he did it to get endorsements. However, it's also true that there's some myth making going on here.

In reality, the main reason Kaepernick has been out of the league for 3 years is that in his last two seasons, he was 3-16 as a starting quarterback.

He didn't just decide to kneel in protest when this all started. Actually, he just started to stay seated on the bench during the anthem. Not really much different than what Marshawn Lynch started doing, and his career continued just fine. It was only after talking to Nate Boyer that he started kneeling. And the reaction from his team and coach was support. At the end of the season, Kaepernick is the one who opted out of his contract. Nobody cut him.

With his style of play, you need to change your whole offensive scheme if he's your quarterback, so it's not surprising that there hasn't been that much interest in him. He's simply not good enough to worry about, especially considering how much money he keeps insisting on to play. There are also only a handful of teams that run an offense where he's be a viable backup (though there are a few more now than there were in 2017 and 2018).

Note that I support his protest, as well as Eric Reid's. However, saying that he's made some huge sacrifice is disrespectful to the civil rights activists throughout history who really have sacrificed everything. Frankly, there are several AA athletes who do much more for civil rights activism and BLM than Colin.
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