Colin Kaepernick's desperate apologists have made just about every conceivable accusation about why their man isn't employed in the NFL. Shaun King of the New York Daily News, who forgets that two months ago he announced his own personal boycott of the NFL because Kaepernick is unsigned, now says it's "unChristian" that the "cultural superhero in the black community" is still a free agent. Who's preaching this kind of "faith"? President Donald J. Trump and his supporters, of course!
Last weekend the Baltimore Ravens' owner, Steve Bisciotti, asked fans for prayer on whether or not the team should sign Kaepernick, a lightning rod of controversy for spiting the flag, veterans and police officers. That request sent King, who says he is a religious man who prays, into his own form of righteous indignation. He questions whether Bisciotti seeks prayers to the God of President Trump or the God of the Gospels:
And I hope the Ravens team owners and front office members pray about this decision because what teams are doing to Kaepernick, effectively banning him from the league because he spoke out against police brutality, is fundamentally un-Christian. To be clear, I didn't introduce faith into this conversation — the Ravens did. So let me press this case a bit further.
What it appears this is going to come down to is whether or not the Ravens pray to the God of Donald Trump or the God of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Trump's God, and the followers of Trump's God, believe Trump is a man of great faith who is actually bringing Jesus back to the White House. Trump's God and the followers of Trump's God appear to hate immigrants and refugees.
He's-no-Rev. King claims the God of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John "loves who Trump and his followers so often hate, despise, and reject. The God of the Gospels advocates peace and non-violence, while Trump encourages police to be brutal to suspects and his audience members to be brutal to protestors."
These claims are demonstrably false. Trump wants to vet refugees from nations breeding radical Islam. No one on the right is advocating brutality to anyone. The people Shaun King detests align closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, who advocated nonviolence.
King describes the problem "we have right now" -- which is keeping Kaepernick on the sidelines of pro football -- "in the NFL, in America, in the White House — it's strange to say — is a theological problem, a fundamental misunderstanding of scripture. That is actually an understatement. What we are witnessing is a complete abuse of the fundamental purpose of the life and ministry of Jesus. Because if a single person in America believes Donald Trump is somehow the personification of Jesus that will be bringing Christianity back to the White House, American Christianity is in crisis."
Raising his angry "sermon" to a fever pitch now, King claims the "supporters of Trump are confusing Christianity with a peculiar version of patriotic, partisan white supremacy. That's actually not new, but drove the KKK. It drove slavery and colonialism. It drove plantations and lynchings. It drove Donald Trump into the White House."
This Black Lives Matter activist/Daily News writer doesn't know his history any better than his Bible. Because the Democrats have their hands all over the advent of the KKK. He's judging self-righteously and not willing to extend any grace or forgiveness to people who actually have no control over pro football personnel decisions.
But more glaring is his utter denial of the fact that the NFL was 67 percent Black in one recent season.
King makes a strong case for his own qualifications as a racist with this diatribe:
And it now appears that whether Colin Kaepernick gets a job in the NFL might just come down to whether or not billionaire Steve Bisciotti prays to the God of Donald Trump and the Republican Party or to the God of the Gospels. If it's Trump's God, we already know the answer. Trump has already spoken very clearly about his disdain for Colin Kaepernick and his love of police brutality. If Trump's God feels the same way, then surely he'll tell the Ravens owner to shun Colin Kaepernick. That would absolutely be the white, conservative Christian thing to do.
Amen.
King isn't the first lefty to twist scripture to fit progressive propaganda. And Jeremiah Wright couldn't have said it any "better" than King.
