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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 241229" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>Interesting idea. I had not considered the possibility that he was washed up as a player.</p><p></p><p>I found this interesting for a different reason. It made me want to go back and look at the history of Black athletes protesting against the system. I could think of several off the top of my head, Jack Johnson, John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, etc, and I thought about the death threats, vilification and denunciations that followed in almost every case at the time but how with a few decades of hindsight they became heroes. Not suggesting that one day Kaepernick will be thought of the same way, but wondering if there is any insight in the heat of the moment we might glean from this or whether, like with all the others, we will have to wait until the hot heads cool off to put it in perspective.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 241229, member: 1640"] Interesting idea. I had not considered the possibility that he was washed up as a player. I found this interesting for a different reason. It made me want to go back and look at the history of Black athletes protesting against the system. I could think of several off the top of my head, Jack Johnson, John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, etc, and I thought about the death threats, vilification and denunciations that followed in almost every case at the time but how with a few decades of hindsight they became heroes. Not suggesting that one day Kaepernick will be thought of the same way, but wondering if there is any insight in the heat of the moment we might glean from this or whether, like with all the others, we will have to wait until the hot heads cool off to put it in perspective. [/QUOTE]
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