The Meaning of Trump's Attack on Colin Kaepernick

[dalton99a]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/trump-urges-nfl-owners-to-fire-players-who-protest/540897/
The Meaning of Trump's Attack on Colin Kaepernick
In a speech Friday night, Trump urged NFL owners to fire players who protest. “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out. He’s fired. He’s fired!”
Adam Serwer 8:10 AM ET

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag,” Trump said, “to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out. He’s fired. He’s fired!’ ” The crowd of supporters erupted in cheers. The president appeared to be referring to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who last year began kneeling during the national anthem to draw attention to unjustified killings of black men by law enforcement.

This is the second time in as many weeks that the president or one of his subordinates has called for black sports figures to be fired for expressing opinions he found distasteful. Last week Trump demanded an apology for a series of tweets in which the ESPN anchor Jemele Hill described him as a white supremacist; earlier White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had argued Hill should be fired for her criticism of the president. The president has been generally hostile to criticism and protest throughout his tenure—early in his presidency he labeled the press an “enemy of the people” out of frustration with critical coverage of his administration.

The president’s condemnations of Kaepernick and like-minded players, as well as Hill, stand in stark contrast to his earlier, sluggish reaction to the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, in which a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was killed, allegedly by a white supremacist.

That protest, the president insisted, had “very fine people on both sides.”

[Cary]

1. #fakepresident single-handedly destroyed the USFL

So now he's advising the NFL to be racist.

[Girard442]

2. If this is a dogwhistle...

...the dogs have hearing loss already.

[bearsfootball516]

4. Lol we posted at the exact same time

[bearsfootball516]

3. It's a dog whistle

His way of telling black people to stay in their lane and don't disrupt the status quo, and telling white businessowners that's it's OK to fire minority workers who don't stay silent.

[Hoyt]

5. Kpete posted an image that nails it.

See Kpete's thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029624758

[beachbum bob]

6. keeps feeding the white hate....what does any one expect?