Quote:Former NFL quarterback Colin Kapernick says it's time for the United States to forgo capitalism, despite accumulating a $40 million net worth and owning a $5.4 million dollar mansion in Las Vegas, all at the hands of America's capitalist economic system.

Kaepernick, who turned himself into a civil rights activist after being booted from the NFL for poor performance, insisted that "black liberation" is not possible under capitalism while he promoted his new book which was co-edited by two famed Marxists, Daily Mail reports.


When asked by The New Republic about his experience working alongside "two of the most prominent black Marxists in the country," Kaepernick said, "I've long admired Keeanga and Robin's work as well as their uncompromising political analysis and understanding that Black liberation simply isn’t possible under capitalism."

"I think the anthology makes this argument quite well, and I hope it challenges readers to see that racism is not white supremacy’s only ingredient. White supremacy persists in part because of its relationship with capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and so on," Kaepernick explained, who became known for boycotting the National Anthem during football games by means of kneeling.

According to Daily Mail, Kaepernick's book features a collection of essays authored by notable civil rights activists such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis who explain in their pieces that "systemic racism is built into the capitalist economic system." The book is predominately written by anti-capitalist authors.

Kaepernick, who has been a pivotal voice in the Marxist Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, slammed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in the interview and said that his book "is the kind of book DeSantis wants to ban."

"Any attempt to whitewash the past should actually be understood as a concrete step toward fascism and a desire to build a nation state where power is concentrated in the hands of a self-anointed (read: white) few," he said.

The two renowned Marxists that Kaepernick worked with to edit his book "Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies" are Robin D.G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

According to Daily Mail, Kelley describes himself as a "Marxist surrealist feminist" and is a professor of history at UCLA, while Taylor teaches African American studies at Northwestern University and is on the board of the International Socialist Review.

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Ahhh can you smell the insanity.

Hey ya fuckin dope.... you first, voluntarily give up every single penny to the US Treasury then come talk to me about next steps.

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Professor of history who got put into a position of teaching history claims the history she teaches is contraband. It's hard to put into words how stupid what she is saying is.

Irrelevant people.

(06-19-2023 07:37 PM)maximus Wrote:  Ahhh can you smell the insanity.

Hey ya fuckin dope.... you first, voluntarily give up every single penny to the US Treasury then come talk to me about next steps.

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Or give it away to a charity, do anything with it but don't amass more of it. These people are hustlers, to a person.

Is he not aware that Liberia exists? Why doesn't he move there if he hates the US so much?

(06-19-2023 08:22 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  Is he aware that Liberia exists? Why doesn't he move their if he hates the US so much?

He doesn't hate America. He loves it here. And he absolutely can't stand the fact he likes it here.

(06-19-2023 08:45 PM)Eagleyed Wrote:  

(06-19-2023 08:22 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  Is he aware that Liberia exists? Why doesn't he move their if he hates the US so much?

He doesn't hate America. He loves it here. And he absolutely can't stand the fact he likes it here.

Exactly.. He also realizes that if he goes elsewhere, nobody will care and will coddle him.

He's even worse at reading economic systems than he was as reading a defense. What a piece of garbage and shtty QB

(06-20-2023 07:25 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  He's even worse at reading economic systems than he was as reading a defense. What a piece of garbage and shtty QB

It's kinda amazing.. He realized he was black and black people were being demoralized about the same time he got benched.

Capitalism is good, unregulated capitalism is less good, capitalism regulated by agencies owned by the industries they are supposed to regulate is the worst. Competition is good, monopolies are bad, anti-trust enforcement is good, unchecked mergers/acquisitions are bad. Industries with low barriers to entry and high levels of competition are good for consumers, industries with high barriers to entry and little competition are most of the time bad for consumers and the industries that require the most scrutiny from regulators.