dagblog - Comments for "Dear Colin Kaepernick: All You Had To Do Was Play The Game, Boy."

Kaep gave $1million to

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 13:27:19 +0000

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Kaep gave $1million to charity last year. I don't really want to 2nd guess that as it's a huge chunk of change, but who stepped forward to make sure the black protests of abuse were remembered, to make them acceptable to intended audiences, to reverse the BlueLivesMatter hijack, to get maximum protest dollar and effect? Hillary's loss as far as she had control was a marketing failure to get her message unblocked and unadulterated to receptive audiences. I feel BLM-related issues need a marketing makeover as well - maybe a highclass glossy professional push to say, "this isn't just the poor and unwashed, it's people from all classes, races, genders, that say enough's enough". One of our bloggers notes that #OWS got way old and counterproductive and an annoyance to potential backers. Kaep was a step towards getting the monied class up in arms, but didn't round the bend to more than a few players and ending on the playing field. Movements have to evolve to new venues, greater reach. I hate seeing a groundswell of energy just disappear again.

Thanks CVille.

HSG — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 23:55:42 +0000

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Thanks CVille.

I fully agree with you on

CVille Dem — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 11:25:29 +0000

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I fully agree with you on this, Hal. It seems pretty obvious, actually.

NCD ... Uhhh ... Yup!

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 08:23:52 +0000

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NCD ... Uhhh ...

For some odd reason I have the sinking suspicion that most likely a whole passel of folks don't realize the hell George Gershwin went through after he penned "It Ain't Necessarily So." He got hammered from all sides...

~OGD~

Don't look up

NCD — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:02:39 +0000

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Don't look up
An' don't look down
You don' dast make
De white boss frown
Bend your knees
An'bow your head
An' pull date rope
Until you' dead

Let me go 'way from the Mississippi
Let me go 'way from de white man boss
Show me dat stream called de river Jordan
Dat's de ol' stream dat I long to cross

HSG ...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 23:47:22 +0000

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HSG ...

I be pickin' up o'er 'ere, Boss.

I be puttin' it down o'er 'ere, Boss.

I be pullin' it out o'er 'ere, Boss.

I be shakin' it o'er 'ere, Boss.

I be squattin' o'er 'ere, Boss.

I be wipin' o'er 'ere, Boss.

You tell us Boss!

~OGD~

My position is that Trump is

rmrd0000 — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:14:13 +0000

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My position is that Trump is going to roll back programs geared to aid blacks. Blacks will step up efforts to help. Blacks are donating more to charity percent-wise already. The government rollback is the major issue. We are all our brother's keeper. When tornadoes hit the Great Plains or when children are starving in Appalachia, it is all our responsibility to help. We give aid via taxes plaid to government.

I don't say their salaries

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:04:16 +0000

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I don't say their salaries are all disposable income, but tell me what's a more important issue for the black community and guess how puny the money spent for protests and other issue activism was. And then politicians and voters forgot except the ones with grudges. So it failed. Instead we're left fretting over Colin's free-agency and reduced to labeling multimillionaires "slaves". Results matter. That's all, I'm finished.

Wealthy blacks are doing

rmrd0000 — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:59:59 +0000

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Wealthy blacks are doing their part. There are things charities do, and things government should use our tax dollars to do. On a matter of scale government is more important. Blacks pay taxes for a reason.

An athlete who rose from poverty spends a great deal of cash buying his/her home and car as well as similar purchase for the parents. A lot of money is spent on home and transportation.

Small fish? Average salary in

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:51:00 +0000

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Small fish? Average salary in NBA is $6.25m, predicted to cross $10m by 2020. That's *per player*, not counting endorsements that can go to $20m-$50mil for the big stars.. Baseball is almost $5m/player. There' only 1 Oprah - there are 100s of players. Pool a few coins, make a splash. Congresspeople will whore themselves for $20k You can *buy* a very good marketing analytics company for $5-10 million. Too much self-limitation on the promotion, sound-and-fury front, letting #BLM carry the water with a bunch of penniless, kind-of-rough activists. Replace Kaepernick's on the field drive with an owner/boardroom push - these sports stars know them, theey're huge in their communities. Do it in an engaging, no-affront manner to find rich well-connected allies. There's no FEC limit on activist dollars spent, might be tax deductible if done right.