Fuck Colin Kaepernick

Apparently, Colin Kaepernick convinced Nike not to issue a shoe with the Betsy Ross flag on its heel. Apparently, his rationale was that the 1776 flag “represents an era associated with slavery.” This is part of the leftist effort of recent years to try and convince the country -- or themselves, or somebody -- that the United States is an evil nation unable to shake its original sin of allowing slavery. 

The fact that the U.S. did not invent slavery and was not the first or anywhere near the last nation to allow slavery doesn't matter to fuckheads like Kaepernick. They don't care that Hillary Clinton turned Libya into a slave market (look it up) or that slavery is quite common in many countries, especially in majority-Muslim nations. The fact that the vast majority of the Founding Fathers were opposed to slavery but compromised to form a new republic also apparently does not matter. Nor does the fact that the nation fought a bloody war with states that had seceded in order to preserve slavery. That war led to the end of slavery and resulted in more American deaths than any war in U.S. history.

No one pretends the U.S. has always been perfect. I don't know what Colin Kaepernick wants other than attention. But I know he's a fucking moron who knows fuck all about history. And if he thinks the 1776 Betsy Ross flag is somehow racist, I suppose that's his right. Is he willing to come straight out and call former President Barack Obama a racist, though? Because this image is from one of Obama's inaugurations:

Yeah, don't know which one. Don't care. Apparently that flag, hanging on the far left and the far right, wasn't a problem then. So, back to our title: Fuck Colin Kaepernick.