... Who?
http://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/05/kaepernick-raising-money-group-honoring/
One of the interesting sidebar stories which cropped up around this year's Super Bowl was an announcement from a Brooklyn rapper named "Cardi B" stating that she would refuse to perform at any Super Bowl halftime show until Colin Kaepernick had a QB position with an NFL team again. (A brief search doesn't reveal any indication that the NFL ever sought out this performer to participate, but ... whatever.) She's not the only entertainer to take a stand in defense of Kaepernick's supposed "right" to play in the National Football League, and some more well-known celebrities have taken up his cause as well.
Oh GOOD! I'd hate to turn on my TV and be exposed to yet another no-talent rapper skank prancing around a football field. Oh ... wait ... that ain't gonna happen ... 'cuz I very intentionally do not watch NFL games anymore. Whew ... dodged a bullet there!
At the moment, however, Kaepernick doesn't seem to be available. After making the short list for Time's Person of the Year honors, he's been doing a lot of fundraising, pledging to raise one million dollars for various social justice causes. But the latest of these efforts is raising some likely unwanted attention. He's attracted $20K in donations for a group which is named in honor of someone whose only claim to fame is having murdered a New Jersey State Police Officer in the 1970s.
Kaepernick just loves him some cop-killers, now don't he?!
Colin Kaepernick said Friday he has raised $20,000 for Assata's Daughters, named after convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, through matching donations from his celebrity friends as part of his Million Dollar Pledge.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback announced that comedian Hannibal Buress and actress Yara Shahidi would both donate $10,000 to Assata's Daughters, which says it "carries on the tradition of radical liberatory activism encompassed by Assata Shakur."
The pledges were linked to a previous donation made by Mr. Kaepernick, who announced in April he would give $25,000 to the Chicago-based group as part of his campaign to give $1 million to organizations "working in oppressed communities."
It's also worth noting that Kaepernick himself donated directly to Assata's Daughters before inspiring these new donations.
Having never seen the show Blackish I'm really not familiar with Ms. Shahidi's body of work, but someone might want to bring her up to speed on the namesake of the recipients of her generosity. There's clearly a certain range of non-violent protests which might legitimately be described as "radical liberatory activism," but participating in gunning down a police officer is not one of them. That's what Assata Shakur (formerly Joanne Chesimard) was convicted of after she and two of her Black Liberation Army associates murdered State Trooper Werner Foerster. She later escaped and fled to Cuba where she presumably remains in hiding to this day. ...
Hmmm ... why is it NOT surprising that Joanne Chesimard fled to Cuba after murdering a New Jersey State Police Officer, eh?!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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