Colin Kaepernick says he will stand for anthem - Cowherd explains why | THE HERD 

Completely disagree I felt there was no disrespect for not standing for the flag. If NFL cared about the military then they'd stop taking money from the government for flying the flag in the first place. However I am disappointed in Kap. Figures like Ali stood by their believed even if it hurt their career, that takes courage. It seems phony that he now decides to change when his contract is done.

***** I agree him changing his stance is the reason I'm disappointed in him

Soundafek well said man... he was seeking more than what his 'intentions' were

respect for what? A country that lets people get shot down because of the color of their skin? Yea that deserves respect

Baby Chan You're not thinking, your talking out the side of your head..

Kap didn't have a $700 Billion defense budget from taxpayers to play against 3rd world countries. I disagree with Kap ideologically, agree with his right to protest, disagree with him stopping the protest. I'm Trump supporter btw

@Drez Geska What does that have to do with what I said?

a conversation about a forgotten and blackballed verse of a song that was never and will never be apart of the anthem. It was a media grab so he didn't lose his job.

milo357 Not saying politically who is right or wrong, but your argument is just fundamentally a weak one. The unfortunate reality with political messages and the use of political expression to make change is that the change that stems from that action takes time. Even in sovereigns more prone to progressive movements such as the United States, change inevitably takes time. To illustrate, Rosa Parks decided to take her famous stand on a racially segregated bus in 1955. The Civil Rights Act wasn't passed until 1963, which meant that the ruling in the landmark Supreme Court Case of Brown v. Board was not properly nor comprehensively enforced until years after Brown v. Board II; a decision that was made in 1955. To reinforce: As the nature of change and justice would have it, both take time. Of course, the amount of time the change takes is determined by a number of factors, not the least of which is that we live in a very complex pluralistic society. One thing that is known, as famously stated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that time tends to lend itself to justice (something like that). Basically, over time societies become more and more just and they rarely take steps backwards. Unfortunately, this natural phenomenon that King observed (change occurring overtime in the favor of justice) can be very difficult to trace back to some perfect explanatory causal factor or even a more general, but no less accurate, causal mechanism. This is because change and the actual inducement of change or actuation of others that may or may not result from such action that progresses societal justices in some way is unpredictable and frustratingly so. So, how does this all relate to your point that the aforementioned action by one Mr. Kaepernik "changed nothing". 1) As mentioned above we never know how long change will take and 2) even when change does occur, even if the change is related to the original action, it is nearly impossible to trace that change back to a causal factor, even though it may be human nature to search for one. Nevertheless, it would be both foolish and short-sighted, for separate reasons, to make an argument that change hasn't occurred yet, therefore "starting a conversation" in the first place is pointless. Alluding to the points made above, it is foolish because even if it were to make a difference and that desired difference occurred years down the road, we would be hard-pressed to identify, in any meaningful way, for one way or another that Kaeperniks' comments played any causal role. It is short-sighted because change does indeed take time. It is an argument of ignorance to say that because change has not occurred as result of Kaeperniks' actions when we are but a year removed from those actions, therefore no change will ever result from Kaepernikis action. That ended up being much longer than originally planned, and no one will probably ever read it...

He did the right thing. He is not a martyr. He can help out in a lot of other ways. Be real!!! He made his point and it is the right thing to do at this time.

C Pope he already does he backs up his actions big time

He initially sold out to get media attention and make sure that he wouldn't lose his job last season.

C Pope Nothing has changed. Kaep talked a big game like he wanted to change the country and him kneeling would get the message across. It sparked conversation, but nothing has changed. If you believe in something that much, you should be willing to give carreer suicide.

Easy for the chicken to say, he donates eggs, now the pig!!!!! He gives has to give his life! Kaep has a right to do what he believes. Period. He is not Martyn Luther King!!! He is a football QB! He is doing the absolute correct thing in this situation. All America is about is a "CONVERSATION"!!! It takes a lot more to effect THIS TYPE OF CHANGE. We are talking about a SYSTEMIC issue. Get off of your high horse, chicken!!

He doesn't need a job... He's made millions... He wants more money so now he will push aside his 'beliefs' to make more... Sellout....

Matthew Fudge: He had a choice and it was a better one. He would have done better with his celebrity status if he used his influence with kids in depressed neighborhoods and encouraged them to stay in school, learn, stay out of trouble, overcome obstacles, dump the self pity, make something of themselves and think things through before acting. If he had done that he would still be a "hero" and earned a sustainable praise. Instead he showed them a hypocritical fool who did the wrong thing and had to turn his tail on his "principles". He will be praised by some for turning tail. He fell into the trend of the time which was flag burning and trashing America. He just wanted to take part in it. It was all show. The camera was there and it was fun. He has no principle. Smarter people know enough not to bite the hand that feeds.

Matthew Fudge-I hear McDonald's is hiring...he can kneel while cleaning the toilets.

Hamcarver That's cold, man.

It is one thing to protest opinions you feel to be warranted, it is another to disrespect the thousands of men and women who died to give you that very right.

Having pride in a flag and anthem is far different from politics... You see an American flag outside someones house, what does that tell you about their political ideologies? Nothing.

Says a little.

Loantastic - Simple as this. It is Voluntarily done. No one forces you to put a flag outside your home. You do it because you have. the right to and want to. In terms of appearances, states that your patriotic, and proud to be an American. Now to my point on "Pro Sports"; Do you want to address why the National Anthem is political? We have players that are International and come from a variety of other areas, It is a choice to stand for the flag, We all have that right afforded to us. If you play pro sports, the national anthem is forced on everyone in attendance. It has nothing to do with the game played and it is a financial ploy to show pride. No one should have to stand if they dont want to.

It means that you're a Statist.

Daz - Until 2009 players were in the locker room for the national anthem. The NFL benefits from showing how patriotic their players are.

Amen to that

He never faced "racism". His stance was based on race lies!

milo357 A hypocrite is a hypocrite no matter where you are and no matter who is...or isn't around you. Donald Sterling lost an NBA team because he snitched on himself as a racist and he was in the confines of his home as well

This is perhaps the most stupid thing I've read in a while.

James Black there is difference between varying political stances and honoring a tradition about freedom

Are you saying the American flag stands for freedom?? hmmm since when???? 1980's??

John cage never

Really....just wow

amazing how a black man would so easily blame a white man for every bad decision he made in his life :)

Lmao olo bolo... Amazing point. Oh i live in the hood.. Whites did this to me.. Not my parents who took the wrong path in life, no, not them.. Its the white people who made the ghettos only for us.. Racists..

Why only 5 instances of injustice? Why not 10? Or 20? In your mind, what number have you deemed it appropriate before someone has the right to voice their opinion about injustice? And just so we're clear, if it doesn't happen to me directly, then I also have no right to speak up. Am I hearing you right? So how dare those people speak up for my mother who also had to give up her seat to White people on the bus. And who could not sit at the counter and order a cup of coffee at Woolworth's. So in your opinion, she had to wait the prerequisite 5 times before she felt bothered. And she had to complain on her own unless other people could prove that they had also experienced legalized injustice no less than 5 times. Then and only then could others have spoken up on her behalf. I'll wait.

+Cj James says "Stop living in the past, take advantage of the opportunities you have today." That's the same exact line White people used in the 1950' & 60's when my mother had to regularly give up her seat to them on the bus. And they continue to use it today. According to people like you, we should always keep our heads down and be quiet. We should be happy for what White America has "given" us. So what you get shot in the backs on video by White cops that remain free to do it again. In 2016. So what I get followed around every department store and can't shop in peace while I'm outnumbered by White patrons in that very same store by about 10:1. In 2017. And I'm not going to list each and every example endured by my wife, my son, my family and friends. I would need about 3 straight days of uninterrupted typing to accomplish that feat. Besides, why should I go through all that trouble? According to people like you, that would be "living in the past".

Cj James "this is a new American. An America that can see past race" I'm sure if Walter Scott were still alive, he'd disagree with you.

milo357 a traitor is a person who joins the enemy to fight his own people. my people are the people of earth who committed themselves to reason and to God. to pledge myself to an imperial faction like the so-called united states would mean that I abandoned those people in favor of somthing to my own personal gain. that would make me a traitor.

milo357​ of the BLM moment and the wrong doings that have been going on agisnt the black community

Ppl are so quick to hop on the other side of anything he does anymore it just makes me winder who was with him to begin with well most don't follow him enough outside of football so it's understandable

Milo how do you know if nothing has changed do you follow him outside of football? on social media? do you even know what his reasoning was in the first place or like the rest of the world do you just hate and judge him for what he did?

Not the same. Rosa Parks wasn't giving back to the community, she just took a courageous stand. Kap is putting money behind what he kneeled for.

Da Kid Gowie He didn't stand for the anthem to get attention, the 49ers have him signed to a guaranteed contract where he gets paid regardless, and he sold out when he needed a job. what is courageous in any of that?

He didn't stand to get attention. He silently sat down during, camera spotted him, and it became a huge ordeal. It's not like he was jumping around saying "look at me." He just sat quietly. He didn't NEED a job. He opted out of his own contract. If he wanted the guaranteed money, he could've easily remained a 49er. He's courageous because it took him quietly sitting down to bring awareness to those living in oppressed areas. He's since donated $400K to charities in those areas and even the president at the time gave an input on the situation. He risked all his endorsements and could've been cut at any time during this protest. He could've been blackballed out of the league. His teammates could've turned on him. Anything could've happened. That's why it's courageous.

Da Kid Gowie well said

Dude was bored and drank the BLM and liberal media Kool-Aid and now that he needs to get paid, he's not bored anymore. That's it. Kap was never deep into black social issues, never had a plan, never even registered to vote in his life. Not saying people can't grow but he sure hasn't. BTW, BLM is alternative facts. "Hands up, don't shoot" is alternative facts. You want to fix things, start with real facts.

+milo357 Every man has the right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

Is S what meaningful change did he bring?

It is not about whether or not he brought about any change, it is that he tried to bring attention to something in the hope it would ultimately augment change at some point. If you never try to do something, you will achieve nothing, if he achieves nothing, it won't be through lack of trying. He simply stood up (not literally of course), for something he believed in, when was the last time you did that.

calibrazxr750 I do that every waking moment of my life, and what he brought attention to was already front in center in the national spotlight. He only seemed to make himself seem arrogant and ignorant. I know his platforms of protest where limited, but this man has always been about himself, just look at his IG a man so desperate to show off will leach to what ever makes him relevant in the hopes that he catches people as naïve as you to jump on his cause.

calibrazxr750 but what is he fighting. To stop racism? The government can't do anything about stopping people from being racist. There aren't any laws that are pro racism and there isn't institutional racism. He's just thinking he's fighting for something that everyone knows is bad already

C. Kaepernick was fighting for Police Reform Nationwide as unfortunately the only place that occurred was Baltimore where they hope to avoid a repeat of Freddie Grey (RIP).