(06-04-2020, 02:43 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-04-2020, 02:16 PM)Last42min Wrote: What are you talking about? Try to open up your mind for a second and just pretend. If Drew Brees kneeled for the anthem to protest police brutality. If he advocated for a socialist change in search of racial justice, do you think Fox News would support him because he's white? Conversely, do you think if Kaepernick (excluding his history) would be well received if he went on ESPN and said people need to stop kneeling and support the flag? You think Fox News wouldn't air that? Use your brain, dude. Everything is not racism. This is classic team politics. The fact that you even think you were making an unassailable point ought to be a strong indicator that you have been conditioned to think about these ideals in a black and white fashion, no pun intended.

Kaepernick found a new platform, but he lost his job.  The distinction has nothing to do with who gets to speak on which news channel.  For me, it's about the game. You can't argue that Kaepernick didn't deserve a backup position, at least, based on his skill.  But he was taken out of the NFL for saying stuff that the white conservative owners believed that their white conservative fans didn't want to hear.  Brees might get pilloried in the left leaning media for a while, but these stories won't be equivalent unless Brees says he wants to play and none of the 32 teams let him.