Over the weekend, mediocre 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem.

Why? Because he says he won't honor the American flag. Well, it stands for institutional

racism. He said, I'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses

black people and people of color, said the man with a 78.5 quarterback rating in 2015 and an

average annual salary of $19 million. He said, quote, 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. And then he continued, I am not looking for approval. I have to stand up for people that are oppressed. Let's leave aside the obvious hypocrisy of this BS. Kaepernick is one of the most privileged people in America. Let's leave aside the fact Kaepernick was adopted and raised by a white family. Let's leave aside the fact that Kaepernick began styling himself as civil rights hero right about the time he started absolutely sucking at his job and that he was fine for yelling the N-word in another player in 2014.

Leave aside the lies undergirding his perspective.

America happens to be the best place on earth for people of color to live, including black folks,

and the notion that cops are broadly targeting black men for death is statistically false.

Let's focus instead on the NFL in the media.

The left media have been paying continuous homage to

Kaepernick's courage, which is amazing considering, if you recall, how they ripped former NFL

quarterback Tim Tebow up and down for the crucial sin of praying before games. They say it's a

wonderful exercise of First Amendment freedoms and that anyone who criticizes Colin Kaepernick

doesn't understand the First Amendment, which of course demonstrates absolute ignorance of the First Amendment because no one Colin Kaepernick doesn't understand the First Amendment, which, of course, demonstrates absolute ignorance of the First Amendment, because no one argues Kaepernick isn't free to say what he wants. We just argue that what he's saying is disgusting and stupid. But he'll be dubbed a civil rights figure just for saying things while pulling down one of America's biggest paychecks. Meanwhile, the NFL itself has stood for St. Louis Rams running out on the field and the hands-up don't-shoot pose, you remember that was false, while refusing the Dallas Cowboys request to pay homage to slain cops.

The NFL, much like the rest of the sports world, has now been hijacked by the left.

And so we'll see ESPN cover Kaepernick like a hero for taking action that demeans our veterans in our

country. And we'll see the NFL pretend that Kaepernick is taking a real stand, as opposed to the kind of stand that earns him plaudits from pundits and quiet pats on the head from the NFL hierarchy. Perhaps the best response to Kaepernick's routine actually came via a gold star mom. She wrote, quote, Mr. Kaepernick, I'm sitting in my living room, looking outside of my American flag, flying at half staff.

You see, my son's body... came via a gold star mom. She wrote, quote, Mr. Kaepernick, I'm sitting in my living room,

looking outside of my American flag, flying at half staff. You see, my son's body lay in a street.

After an IED blew up the vehicle he was fighting in, his blood stains the sands of Afghanistan.

He died protecting the ideals of the flag you refused to respect. He died so that ungrateful, privileged,

arrogant men like you can be just that. Ungrateful, privileged, and arrogant.

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