In America we have the
right to protest, so when Kaepernick started his protest by refusing to honor
the flag and the national anthem during NFL pre-game ceremonies a lot of people
thought it was wrong, and a lot of people thought it was right. That’s America
for you. And no matter what anybody thought, nobody disagreed about the fact
that it was his right to protest like that – it is part of what it means to be
American. It’s about free speech and our inalienable rights as American
citizens.
Somehow, in my mind, all
of that changed through a series of interlocking events. Of course, I still
agree Kaepernick has the right to protest – I just think he is publicly turning
himself into a horse’s ass, and that has nothing to do with his right to
protest. It has everything to do with his duty not to abuse himself in front of
all of us, making a perfect ass out of himself, and that is the point I am
trying to make. Protest all you want, Fidel Kaepernick, but when you make a
huge ass out of yourself in the process, then you diminish yourself and you
make all of us feel like telling you to please STFU.
What did he do that got
stuck in my craw? It was the way he talked about Fidel Castro last week, and defended Castro for his accomplishments in educational system. Thank God, Castro is dead now. And now it seems as though Kaepernick has elevated himself
to a higher level of what he has been all along. I will always think of him as Fidel Kaepernick, from now, and the
reason is because he overstepped the purity of exercising his right to free
speech, and he performed an exercise in the free expression of vapid and pointless stupidity – and
now he just looks stupid. So, now Castro is dead, and Kaepernick was in Miami
for a game yesterday, looking like a fool. Somehow, all of the sudden, Fidel Kaepernick looked out of place in the USA.
The reason is because
Miami thinks Kaepernick is clueless. Miami, after all, is not full of evil
white men like me, Miami is full of Cubans who fled Castro.
There are millions of
people in South Florida who either fled with their families, or were born here
of families that fled Castro. It must be strange to have come here as a little
kid, and to have grown up here. How do you think those people feel about Castro?
Who fled Castro? Was it the people who did not want to participate in his
world-class educational system? No, it was the most educated people, the
intellectuals and the business owners, who suddenly became the enemies of Castro’s Cuba. To this day, in private moments, they will stand on the beach in Florida with the water
lapping at their ankles, and look toward the island of Cuba, and they cry. It’s
true. Most of them were forced to flee and risk life and limb on their way to
America in some kind of a boat. And these people think Fidel Kaepernick missed
the boat.
The problem with Fidel
Kaepernick’s voice of protest is that it is not his own voice, it is the voice
of his wife who is an advocate for Black Lives Matter, and he is just parroting
what they have crammed into his head. This must be true because errant,
quixotic, unthinking, radical, revolutionaries do not make it into the ranks of
the NFL, or the NBA, or the MBA. These athletes are like the special forces of
the world of sports. They are good, hard-working, incredibly disciplined
people. So, what ticked off Fidel Kaepernick and turned him into a
white-man-hating, Fidel-Castro-praising fool?
It was a woman – a
beautiful woman. As a man, I can’t hold that against him, but I do wish he
would just stop with the fake, forced, grandstanding in the name of his right
to protest because this is not about human rights anymore. Who does he think he
is telling us who is just and who is not? The day he defines justice for me is
the day I die because he has no intellect, no strategy, no plan, and no real
protest at all. He's just showboating.
What have you done for America lately Fidel Kaepernick?
News flash: Fidel Kaepernick is just
grandstanding to show off for his wife. See
what a bad boy am I?
When he participated in
a press conference last week he made a fool out of himself when confronted by a
Cuban reporter whose family had fled Castro. These people were refugees who left
in droves because they had everything they owned stolen from them and they were
threatened with their lives. That was the strategy of Castro. He just got rid
of the top half of the social structure and appropriated all their wealth. Of
course, it was a big brain drain on the country and it took them decades to even
pretend they had recovered. Cuba has some interesting claims to fame. They do
have credits including their education system and their green energy
accomplishments. But these things were accomplished almost in spite of Castro.
Just because something actually works does not mean the whole society is cutting edge.
Castro was a thug, plain and simple. He was a mafioso thug, who got rid of his
enemies – anybody who could think or who owned property - and he took over and ruled
over whoever was left like a punk dictator. What was left was essentially a
country of kids. To this day there are more young people in Cuba than middle
aged or elderly. They can brag about whatever they want, but I think life has
been cheap in Cuba for a long time, and I would never trade one tiny part of my
life in America for a Cuban existence.
So, when Kaepernick felt as though he
had to speak up on behalf of Castro it just ended up being the last straw, the
one that broke the camel’s back. It was the camel’s back of standing up for
some idiot’s right to exercise their right to free speech. But, even that will get worn
out with enough abuse, and leave it to Kaepernick to seal his fate, not as a
revolutionary with a cause, but as a rebel without a clue. I hope he and his
wife have an ungrateful kid just like he is, because that would surely be justice,
and punishment enough for any fool.
~ End Part 1 - Part 2 Thursday~
