Published by Tareau Barron
Born and raised in San Francisco, Ca, I've been a local sports fan for about 26 years now. Have a passion for the 49ers, Giants, Warriors. Have a respect and a disliking (hahaha) for the Raiders and A's. Following Cal and Stanford College hoops, College football, NFL, WNBA, and NBA. Will be giving you perspective from a young black male growing up here in the bay area. Holding no punches. Hope ya'll enjoy
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I’ve seen plenty of times when athletes/celebrities play up to their black side when things aren’t going so good. We will have to see how the season plays out for our final judgment.
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Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts. Yea I agree. Just as a die hard 49er fan and a black man who has followed Kaepernick since his final year in college, this just seems fishy. Example today he is meeting with Rev Amos Brown at San Francisco’s 3rd Baptist Church to talk to black leaders. He has never been to this historic church nor mentioned it prior. Everyone is telling me things like “Why does it matter that he’s not an elite athlete, he is down with the movement” I can’t genuinely believe he would of done this if things were going well. Kaepernick is no stranger to controversy. Not a peep of his blackness when San Francisco wanted to trade him to Denver. Not a peep when John Elway wanted him to take a pay cut.
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Excellent article Tareau
But…
Devils advocate here…
Is it possible that he could be growing into his consciousness?
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Hell no. Trust me on this one. He is playing the proverbial black athlete card all of a sudden. Never was a peep about his blackness until his job was on the line. I followed him ever since he was in college he is a very smart kid he is no stranger to controversy however he was scheduled to attend Third Baptist Church here in San Francisco on Sunday to meet with black leaders and he cancel a lot of people are against me on this one and it’s no problem but I know this guy and I know for fact this is the doing of his girlfriend who is a social online black activist you can’t just grow an afro and donate money to the black community to justify your blackness. These actions prove how gullible we as black people are all it takes is recognition and some money and all of a sudden you’re the second coming of Huey Newton? I’m speaking as a die-hard Niners fan and also a black man. It’s the same way how Michael Jordan is now down with Black people. I wish everybody would see these athletes for the sellouts that they are
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Oh yeah, I get the MJ thing because he was all, “I’m just about the game.” Meanwhile, kids were getting killed over his sneakers.
I feel comfortable deferring to you on the other dude. You know waaaay better than I do. LadyG was just stirring up the pot! LOL!
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Lmfao I’m sorry if I sounded defensive. That’s the bad things about texting and typing. You cant determine the emotion. Always good to stir the pot and question things. I’m just calling a spade a spade and Kaepernick is a fraud. Not a peep on Instagram about his new found blackness until 38 weeks ago while he was rehabbing his shoulder. Prior to that nothing
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LOL!
Not even a BLM shout out? Well damn….
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Hahahahahahahah
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