Colin Kaepernick, GQ's Citizen of the Year

If your goal is to appeal to leftists and in the process, put yourself out of business, you need to follow the examples of GQ and Glamour magazines. But I'm only going to deal with the former rag, and discuss Glamour in a later post.

GQ magazine has named Colin Kaepernick, Citizen of the Year for 2017.

Kaepernick is a former duck-throwing quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. He is now known as the mediocre QB responsible for starting a national movement to protest the Star Spangled Banner by taking a knee, ostensibly to protest  police brutality, which has nothing to do with the National Anthem and everything to do with disrespecting the flag and our military who've defended it and the nation for which it stands. 


He also wore socks depicting cops as pigs.

Once Kaepernick got a bit of notoriety from his disrespectful display, other players joined the party and took a knee--one guy even did his stretching exercises during the playing of the anthem.

Roger Goodell, who's as useless as spectacles on testacles, refused to demand the player follow the NFL policy of standing during the playing of the anthem. In fact, now he wants a raise in salary to over $45 million.

Soon the disrespect spread like flies on a cow turd as even kids emulated their 'heroes.'  The pee wee league kids were doing it, and even a few cheerleaders dropped their pom poms in protest of something they knew not exactly what.

So GQ, the magazine that has been devolving for over half a century, has placed an unemployed football player who cannot elucidate the reason he takes a knee for the Star Spangled Banner--first it was to show support to the Black Lives Matter movement, a movement that is clearly anti-police, anti-establishment, anti-American.

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL Media in an exclusive interview in August 2016. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

Not to mention the bodies in the streets of Chicago, put there by gang bangers, almost entirely black, and in extremely high numbers. 

But if you take a stand, if you protest about that, and try doing something to actually help the communities deal with this problem, you might actually make a difference. Some people in the communities of Chicago, often those connected with churches, actually do go out and help their communities, but GQ doesn't care about them.

Not to mention the incredible number of black babies aborted every year by single mothers by Planned Parenthood. Why not protest that organization started by Margaret Sanger, a staunch birth control advocate, and eugenicist.

But GQ apparently doesn't care about saving black kids--that isn't how they see good citizenship.

It is about alleged racial inequality and police brutality, and dishonoring the flag, the anthem and our military is the method of doing it. A non sequitur when it comes to making sense of taking a knee. The magazine called Kaepernick a "powerful symbol of activism and resistance."

No. A powerful symbol of activism was Mother Theresa. Another is the first responders and organizations like the all volunteer Cajun Navy who helped rescue people from the ravages of Hurricane Harvey. GQ never even considered those folks.

A powerful symbol of resistance was Rev. Martin Luther King. (Note how the left refuses to call him "Reverend" but instead refers to his as "Doctor" King.)

A powerful symbol of resistance was when a plumber from Sutherland Springs, Texas grabbed a gun when he heard his church was under attack, ran barefoot toward the church and shot at the killer, which saved countless lives. GQ forgot about him.

But GQ seems to be doing whatever it can to sell paper, and all they're doing is selling hatred.


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