“The email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL’s values,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. “We condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else.”
“NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that he wishes 'we had listened earlier' to what Colin Kaepernick was trying to bring attention to when he began kneeling for the national anthem in 2016. In an interview with Mike Greenberg for ESPN's The Return of Sports special in June, Goodell said he supports and encourages teams to sign Kaepernick," reported ESPN last year.
Let’s step back for a second and consider the issues:
Jon Gruden is guilty of a few (private) drunken-style frat-boy quips about gays, blacks and women. The ones made public are a decade old.
Harmless “locker room talk,” presidential candidate Donald Trump had made similar (private) quips about females when The Establishment tried to derail his first campaign by publicizing them. At the time, most Americans seemed to agree, as demonstrated by the election results.
Colin Kaepernick, on the other hand, publicly and repeatedly hailed a Stalinist dictator who jailed and tortured the most gay, black and women political prisoners in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere, and whose lifelong obsession was the destruction of the nation that made Roger Goodell (and Colin Kaepernick) wealthy celebrities.
“I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed,” proclaimed Colin Kaepernick during his famous protest. “There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police…There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable.”
While proclaiming the sentiments above, Colin Kaepernick wore a T-shirt honoring Fidel Castro. If Kaepernick were starring in a Monty Python or SNL skit we’d get it.
But the shirt did not seem to denote any satiric sentiments. Instead, while denouncing oppression, Kaepernick chose to idolize a Stalinist dictator who jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin himself during the Great Terror, and whose heirs continue repressing blacks on a daily basis.
While denouncing “police murders” Kaepernick idolized a Stalinist dictator whose KGB-trained police and death squads murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six.
While denouncing “injustices against people of color” Kaepernick idolized the jailer and torturer of the longest suffering black political prisoners in the modern history of the Western hemisphere. Many of these black Cubans suffered longer and more horrible incarceration in Castro’s KGB-designed dungeons than Nelson Mandela spent in South Africa’s (relatively) comfortable prisons, which were open to inspection by the Red Cross. Castro never allowed a Red Cross delegation anywhere near his real prisons.
"N**ger!” taunted my jailers between tortures,” recalled the late Cuban political prisoner Eusebio Peñalver to this writer. “'We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!' laughed my torturers. For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell. That’s four feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.'”
Naturally you’ve never heard the Fake News Media so much as mention Eusebio Peñalver, or of any of his black Cuban co-heroes like Ignacio Cuesta Valle, Antonio López Muñoz, and Dasio Hernández Peña who all suffered prison terms longer than did Nelson Mandela.
And yet their suffering took place only 90 miles from U.S. shores in a locale absolutely lousy with international press bureaus and their intrepid “investigative reporters.” From CNN to NBC, from Reuters to the AP, from ABC to NPR to CBS, Castro welcomes all of these to “embed” and “report” from his fiefdom. For all the good it does when it comes to reporting truth.
Actually, no Cuba-watcher with half a brain expects networks bestowed Havana bureaus by KGB-trained apparatchiks to even feign honesty, or even play-act their professed duty: “to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
“The Castro regime assigns 20 security agents to follow and monitor every foreign journalist,” revealed Vicente Botin who reported from Cuba for Madrid’s El Pais until he was booted from the Castro-family fiefdom for taking his job title seriously. “You play the regime’s game and practice self–censorship or you’re gone.”
“The negro,” sneered Fidel Castro’s sidekick Che Guevara, “is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities and drink, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.”
A few years ago a black Cuban dissident named Jorge Garcia Perez better known as “Antunez” testified (via video-conference from Cuba) to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Antunez suffered 17 years in Castro’s dungeons and torture chambers essentially for the crime of quoting Martin Luther King Jr. and the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
Given the media’s neurotic hyper-sensitivity to the most microscopic hint of white on black racism and “White Privilege,” here’s a question:
When would a black human-rights activist who was jailed and tortured by a lily-white regime for the crime of quoting Martin Luther King Jr. be totally ignored by this identical Fake News Media while he testified to a U.S. Senate Committee?
Answer: when his tortures were inflicted by the Left’s premier pin-up boys, that’s when.
Kaepernick’s t-shirt idol also co-founded the only regime in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere to herd gays at gunpoint into forced-labor camps for the crime of being gay (or suspected gays.) Many were tortured and worked to death in these slave-labor camps known as “UMAP,” where a sign at the entrance read: “WORK WILL MAKE MEN OUT OF YOU.” The sign at the entrance to Auschwitz read “Work will set you free.”