First there was ESPN, which gave Kaepernick wall-to-wall coverage as he embarked on his silly protest of AmeriKKKa when he kneeled during the national anthem before NFL games during the 2016 season. In the weeks leading up to the 2017 season, ESPN harped on why Kaepernick had not been signed by a team. The most obvious answer, that Kaepernick alienates fans, seemed to completely elude the worldwide leader in suckage....er....sports.
Next up to don the costume of a horse's # was the NAACP. In late August, the organization held a protest at NFL headquarters in Manhattan, and sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell demanding to discuss Kaepernick "being victimized and discriminated against because of his exercise of free speech." The Atlanta branch of the NAACP then called for a boycott of the NFL until a team signed him. It was great to see that the NAACP finally did something to help a black man get a job. Too bad the man the group helped was already a multi-millionaire.
David Hogberg is a writer living in Maryland. He is author of the book, “Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians.”