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11. What Colin wants to publish..

Tue May 11, 2021, 08:04 PM

May 2021

affects swing districts and Democrats? Damn, that guy can't do anything can he? I don't think those swing districts will read one page, but wouldn't it be great if they did?

"Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future Without Policing & Prisons" will contain 30 essays, and Kaepernick himself served as editor.

The topic of police and prison abolition is something Kaepernick has been passionate about for years. When he first knelt during the national anthem before a preseason game in 2016, he told NFL.com that he was doing it to protest institutional racism and law enforcement's treatment of Black people

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Colin Kaepernick editing, publishing collection of police abolition essays [View all] WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 OP

Come on Colin, help Dems lose more swing districts comradebillyboy May 2021 #1

What Colin wants to publish.. stillcool May 2021 #11

You really think that anyone who would be so upset that Colin Kaepernick wrote this book StarfishSaver May 2021 #18

Pukes will hang Kapernick's foolishness on the Democrats comradebillyboy May 2021 #21

So what? StarfishSaver May 2021 #28

When did Colin Kapernick become the voice of all comradebillyboy May 2021 #33

Probably around the same time you think he became the voice of Democrats StarfishSaver May 2021 #35

Fodder for the right-wing sound bite machine. OneBro May 2021 #2

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #3

And replace it with what? TwilightZone May 2021 #4

Systems that support the guy before he gets on meth and shoots his wife and kids, so he doesn't WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #7

You think you can eliminate violence entirely? TwilightZone May 2021 #10

We actually know a lot of the reasons why people become violent, and a great many of them are WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #14

"Good morning" is fodder for the right-wing sound bite machine StarfishSaver May 2021 #19

If this is louder than GQP worshiping a guy who killed 500,000 Americans than we're screwed anyway uponit7771 May 2021 #22

"Awesome" says the RNC Marketing Dept PBC_Democrat May 2021 #5

Most Dems won't celebrate or endorse it. TwilightZone May 2021 #6

He also doesn't vote JI7 May 2021 #8

Apparently every Black person in America is supposed to just STFU StarfishSaver May 2021 #29

And once said Hillary and the former guy were just the same. Treefrog May 2021 #37

Right, cause they wouldn't just make up some shit like Biden Hates Meat? tia uponit7771 May 2021 #23

They Most Certainly Would ... And Probably Still Will PBC_Democrat May 2021 #25

Isn't their job easy whether these publications exist or not? I mean at some point we got to ... uponit7771 May 2021 #26

So what? StarfishSaver May 2021 #42

He's not a Democrat Polybius May 2021 #9

Enough people here express support for Kaepernick I thought some might be interested. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #13

Yes they do Polybius May 2021 #15

They CLAIM to support Kaepernick StarfishSaver May 2021 #20

Yep. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #34

Indeed StarfishSaver May 2021 #36

"Couldn't you at least wait until after the next election? You won't get ANYTHING if we lose the WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #39

Every effing time StarfishSaver May 2021 #40

The obsession with electoral politics makes it impossible for people to imagine any other change WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #41

True StarfishSaver May 2021 #43

Absolutely -- and I don't want to play down electoral politics at all, or the ways the Democratic WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #44

To many people here StarfishSaver May 2021 #45

EXACTLY. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #46

Remember the over-the-top defenses of Carville's attack on "wokeness"? StarfishSaver May 2021 #47

It says so much that so many still listen to him as a leader anymore. So much. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #48

It surprises me how many people assume he's a Democrat when he was quite public about betsuni May 2021 #24

"He's not a Democrat ... We don't need people like him in our Party" StarfishSaver May 2021 #30

If he's as good at this as he was playing QB... BGBD May 2021 #12

To be fair, he showed a lot of promise with his rocket arm and skill set early on Brother Buzz May 2021 #27

He'd have done better in MLB BGBD May 2021 #32

Damn, to read some of the posts in this thread, one would think they don't believe in the Ferrets are Cool May 2021 #16

Doesn't the same 1st Amendment also give people the right to criticize speech? MichMan May 2021 #17

These threads always reveal true colors StarfishSaver May 2021 #31

+1 Ferrets are Cool May 2021 #38