The Raging Fumes of Colin Kaepernick

I got into Twitter this evening hoping to live off some savagery until I saw a bunch of 'snowflakes' burning their Nike apparel, with the hash tag #justburnit

This is on the grounds that Colin Kaepernick who was signed on Nike, disrespected Trump their country, so everyone should boycott or better still set some couple of Nike's bought with their money on fire.

How cool is that?

So I googled Colin to get with the program and saw this on Wikipedia:

Colin,  born November 3, 1987 is an America football quarterback who is currently a free agent. Kaepernick played college football for the University of Nevada in Reno, where he was named the Western Athletic Conference(WAC) Offensive Player of the Year twice and became the only player in NCAA Division I FBS history to amass 10,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards in a career. After graduating, he was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the2011 NFL Draft.

In 2016, Kaepernick became a national figure when he ignited a firestorm of controversy by choosing to kneel on one knee rather than stand while the United States national anthem was being played before the start of NFL games. He described his behavior as a protest against racial injustice in the United States. His actions prompted negative and positive responses. The negative responses included suggestions that players who protest should be fired; other people displayed their disapproval of players' protests by leaving the stadium immediately after the protests or refusing to watch games at all. Positive responses included similar activity by additional athletes in the NFL and other American sports leagues protesting in various ways during the anthem. 

In November 2017, Kaepernick filed a grievance against the NFL and its owners, accusing them of colluding to not hire him. 

In 2018, Amnesty International awarded Kaepernick with that year's Ambassador of Conscience award.

In 2018, Kaepernick signed on Nike's 30th anniversary celebration ad campaign of the Just Do It slogan, agreeing to lend his name to Nike apparel.

So according to the MAGA group, Colin disrespected America and if a brand like Nike can choose him to represent him, Nike also disrespects America.

In their own words 'We choose our country, not Nike' 

Isn't it cool that one can be a burning racist in 2018? (pun intended)

If a man like Colin Kaepernick can decide to take the knee during the pre game anthem as a kind of solidarity to victims of police brutality and racial prejudice is seen as disrespectful, lost his job because definitely 'All lives matter', who will happily give up themselves to be next?

The world is already plagued with people that  would rather be stuck with their 'privileges' than actually stand for what is right, but Colin Kaepernick has proven that he is not of this world. He stood by his believes, the same way Martin Luther King, Malcom X etc were seen as rebels of the status quo.

 He has sent his message and they can rage for all I care.

People like Colin are a Phoenix, we don't need a bunch of them in the world but as long as they are in this mad, lost world, their little acts will always count. They will continue to rise and rise because they know that a country worth fighting for, is a country everyone can actually feel safe in.

A country were school children won't see their colleagues gunned down in front of them, a country were a black teenage boy can walk into any neighbourhood without the police called on him because he looks 'suspicious'...

So keep burning your money and think you are burning Nike, the joke is on you lot.

Alexa, play me This is America by Childish Gambino