The NFL has been denying Colin Kaepernick work longer than Muhammad Ali had been banned from boxing matches (1,310 days from March 22, 1967 - October 26, 1970).
Paul Robeson was denied a passport by the US State Department for 8 years. It took several lawsuits and international pressure to get his passport reissued.
In banning Kaepernick, the NFL is almost halfway to that 8 year milestone.
In 1940, Kenny Washington should have been drafted. He was excluded by the NFL for 2,294 days until the 1946 Rams signed him while under pressure to integrate.
In continuing to ban Colin Kaepernick, the NFL is 938 days away from breaking their own collusion record.
In banning Colin Kaepernick’s labor, the NFL has passed boxing’s ban of Muhammad Ali, is less than 1,000 days away from breaking their own collusion record toward Kenny Washington, and is about half way towards the US State Department’s 8 year passport ban of Paul Robeson.
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“...I would yet have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ. To me the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“As we counsel young men concerning military service we must clarify for them our nation’s role in Vietnam and challenge them with the alternative of conscientious objection.” - MLK
“I am pleased to say that this is the path now being chosen by more than 70 students at my own Alma Mater, Morehouse College, and I recommend it to all who find the American course in Vietnam a dishonorable and unjust one.” - MLK
A Trump supporter posted a video of their pickup truck dangerously close and harassing Joe Biden’s campaign bus on a Texas Highway with the tag #OperationBlockTheBus
I’m being told this is a Toyota Tundra. The back passenger window matches.
Meet Hannah and Randi Ceh of New Braunfels, Texas. Hannah posted this video of her family driving dangerously close to the Biden bus on Instagram. Her dad owns the Toyota Tundra in the video.
🎥: Second Video
Randi Ceh posted a different video of her vehicle driving dangerously close to the Biden bus. You can see the window of the pickup truck roll down and someone later yells, “jackass.”
Sept. 2016: Lil Wayne said he had “no opinion” on Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem.
“...The Black lives matter thing... that whole wave of whatever, that whole wave just went by me too fast for me to even try to even give an opinion.”
Lil Wayne told Skip Bayless, who asked him about racism, “I thought [racism] was over. I still believe it’s over, but, obviously, it isn’t.”
Shannon Sharpe tried to bail Lil Wayne out by reminding him of Alton Sterling and racial injustice during Katrina. Lil Wayne responded that maybe “coming together is the solution” and said his family is his “politics,” his “protest,” and “all that matters” to him.