righterwriter wrote:
You are confusing participating in a weekend long charity golf tournament once a year with becoming a militant anti-police black power representative, all within a very short span of time.
Does he still work with the Camp Taylor charity, btw? Or are kids with heart disease and the people from the charity he spent four years cooperating with not really that important compared to his other causes now? If indeed he's not fundraising for them, does that mean anything to you?
BTW, the part of his upbringing is relevant in that anyone who goes from someone who was probably whiter than most white people are in terms of upbringing, to become a black power political activist, seemingly overnight, means the dude might well just be a bit lost. And that's relevant because that means his message--which he never really explains because he's not allowed to talk to the media (even the many, many who would gladly support his message in exchange for some interviews)-- might well be hollow, meaning that he is being propped up as something he is not.
That's my take on it, as a 49ers fan that liked him, then watched him turn into a bad QB the more famous he got, and then a rather confusing national hero representing only an image but not anything with much truth behind it.
Not talking about his QBing, I think we can all agree, he's not good.
So if I'm reading this right, you are trying to paint him in a bad light because he's moved on from the Camp Taylor charity to donate to tons of other charities? I mean.. are you arguing just to argue at this point? Are you Sean Hannity? Help me out here. You went from "he didnt do charities before all this" to "well now hes not doing the charities he was doing before". What exactly is the point here?
As for your armchair psychology diagnosis, it's become clear that you value your own inflated sense of being able to dissect someone from afar more than a person's literal, actual, factual contributions to underpriviledged society. Considering he's been donating excessively to charity since he became a well paid NFL player - far pre-dating his kneeling - and was constantly speaking his mind on twitter and other platforms about inequality (no one cared about until he kneeled, proving his point conclusively).. I'm gonna go with no. And its mainly because you are content with working from incomplete information, and putting my own armchair psychologist cap, appear to be working backwards from the answer you want it to be.
As I said before: Kaepernick is a better man than most. He is educated. He has consistently been helping at-risk youth, be it via violence, disease, or poverty. What changed is that he did something controversial and then used that platform not to make himself richer, but to give even more back to the at-risk youth he's helped throughout his career. There is absolutely nothing to substantiate that he's a party boy, and no reason to bring up his upbringing except as a way to excuse your own denigration of the things he has done. Regardless of whether you agree with his kneeling or not, he's been an exceptional human being and tearing him down baselessly is a disgusting act, and you shouldnt be proud of it.
up. I'm not even happy with the Raiders for bringing back Tom Cable (DV). But when Gruden mentioned that Kap should be on a team, a ton of Raiders fans were pissed. Maybe a handful were pissed that Cable was brought back, and that was all performance based. 
