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Celebs And Activists Wish Colin Kaepernick Happy Birthday
Colin Rand Kaepernick turns 30 years old today. The former NFL quarterback has become a hero to millions and will be looked upon with reverence and dignity when the history books are opened years from now.
Celebrities and activists alike are taking to Twitter to sing the praises that Colin so richly deserves on his born day.
Probably all kinds of stuff (non-Kaep related) they don't want getting out in those e-mails.
Cristina Maza
NewsweekNovember 3, 2017
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists have always been distasteful, but now it turns out their taste in pizza is terrible, too.
The white supremacist website the Daily Stormer announced Thursday that Papa John’s pizza is the official pie of the alt-right, posting a picture of a pizza with a swastika fashioned from pepperoni slices. The caption reads, "Papa John: Official pizza of the alt-right?"
The pronouncement came after Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter, whose pizza is an official NFL sponsor, blamed his company’s recent losses on NFL players protesting police brutality during the national anthem.
Schnatter was widely accused of racism and of making bad pizza. But white supremacists came to his defense.
“This might be the first time ever in modern history that a major institution is going to be completely destroyed explicitly because of public outrage over their anti-white agenda,” Daily Stormer writer Adrian Sol posted, referring to the NFL and adding disturbingly, “The Negro fatigue caused by this whole NFL fiasco is reaching heights that even I didn’t fully expect.”
This isn’t the first time the far-right has endorsed a brand and demonstrated how hateful ideology can permeate everything from sports to retail. Last November, the neo-Nazis said New Balance shoes were the “official shoes of white people” because one of the company’s top executives criticized former President Barack Obama and said that he supported Trump.
The Daily Stormer also declared Wendy’s the “official burger of the Neo-Nazi Alt-Right movement” after a representative of the fast-food chain posted a picture of an alt-right meme on the company’s Twitter account.
The brands, however, have been quick to disassociate themselves from white supremacists. New Balance released a statement saying it is a “values-driven” organization that believes in “humanity, integrity, community and mutual respect for people around the world.”
In an email to the Huffington Post, Papa John’s also said it condemns racism in all forms.
“We do not want these individuals or groups to buy our pizza,” the company said in a statement.
That said, Papa John's CEO Schnatter has earned praise from the right wing for criticizing Obamacare in 2012 and also donating around $1,000 to the Trump campaign.
don’t matter papa Johns pizza trash anyways let them have that ****.Please tell me that's a joke article
If the Colin Kaepernick grievance hadn’t made the NFL uncomfortable before this week, the level of angst has apparently risen acutely in recent days.
An NFL source familiar with discovery requests made this week told Yahoo Sports that “agitation” over the Kaepernick grievance is already building within the league’s legal department, which is building a defense hand-in-hand with heavy-hitting international law firm Covington & Burling.
The source said league lawyers fielded a slew of discovery requests this week, including depositions or records requests involving NFL owners, teams or coaches. Among them:
Deposition and records requests for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York and Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll.
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is the subject of a discovery request from Colin Kaepernick’s legal team. (AP)
Records requests for New York Giants co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch.
• Records requests for the 49ers, Seahawks, Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans.
Each request was apparently made with specific dates in mind, most relating to a team’s communications with Kaepernick’s representatives following his entrance into free agency in March.
The inclusion of Mara and Tisch likely raised some eyebrows, considering the Giants have never pursued Kaepernick. A source familiar with the request involving the Giants said it is rooted in comments Mara made to Sports Illustrated in May, when he described fan emotions and potential backlash when it came to potentially employing Kaepernick.
This round of requests also isn’t expected to be the last. A league source told Yahoo Sports that more could be expected in the coming weeks – with the focus landing in some unexpected places. The source said that communications with or about President Donald Trump could become a bigger focus, and that it is possible that communications between Jones and Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter could become a part of the grievance discovery.
Colin Kaepernick, speaking with Seattle’s Doug Baldwin in 2016, has filed a grievance against the NFL for allegedly blackballing him from the league. (Getty Images)
Schnatter made some unexpected remarks ripping the NFL’s leadership in the national anthem controversy this week. That has brought more focus to his relationship with Jones, a major Papa John’s stakeholder, and what role the Cowboys’ owner may have had in the statements. Jones has been one of the league’s staunchest critics of national anthem protests this season.
Another interesting public-relations wrinkle is the league’s use of Covington & Burling against the grievance. That Covington & Burling is fighting for the league is no surprise as the NFL has a decades-long relationship with the firm. But it’s notable that one of the partners at Covington & Burling is former Attorney General Eric Holder, a staunch civil-rights supporter in former President Barack Obama’s administration.
This is the same Holder who tweeted a photo of Martin Luther King on a knee to President Trump on Sept. 24, with the caption: “Taking a knee is not without precedent Mr. President. Those who dared to protest have helped bring positive change.”
At the least, the focus on Trump and his politics in regard to the anthem protests – not to mention his relationship with NFL owners – could prove to be an interesting, if not awkward, dynamic for Holder and his firm.
It remains to be seen how quickly the NFL responds to the discovery requests, but the league’s collective-bargaining agreement calls for “expedited” discovery in such a grievance case. A source said the expectation for documents to be exchanged could be a matter of weeks, with the depositions likely to be executed inside of two months.
Not a single team signed Kap to play to even see what the reaction would be. Couldn't they have put a "distraction" clause or some other BS in there? NFL contracts are already shaky as it is. We didn't see what the reaction to a team playing him would be like. They did it because of what they think "other" people might feel like. It says a lot more about the owners than the people they're trying to use as a smokescreen. Instead, they're suiting up certified SCRUBS and no names out there in awful games that no one wants to watch.
I mean he did play for the 9ers after he sat and took knees, if my memory serves me correctly. The sky didnt fall. wtf.....
escreen. Instead, they're suiting up certified SCRUBS and no names out there in awful games that no one wants to watch.