Next time some goes on and on about how crazy left-wing political correctness is (and sometimes it is), here's a guy who didn't beat up his girlfriend, he didn't carry a weapon, he didn't do drugs, he didn't gamble on NFL games, he didn't join the KKK, he didn't get 6 women pregnant in 6 different cities, he didn't even tell the ball boy to underinflate a football.
He chose not to stand for the national anthem to make a point about Francis Scott Key being a slaveholder and a zealous defender of slavery. That all those stirring words about freedom in the Star Spangled Banner weren't intended to apply to anybody not white. For that, Kaepernick has been banned from professional football.
Yeah, for sure any employer has the right to hire whomever he/she chooses. And in defense of the NFL clubs, they are worried that Kaepernick would be toxic -- not to their team but to their ticket sales. And it is perfectly okay for that to be the reason not to hire him. So I'm not really blaming the owners here.
But I think it's a dark comment on the direction of this country. I am sorry to see political correctness (and really there should be a better word for it -- maybe political repression) infect both sides of the spectrum. If someone doesn't want to say a loyalty oath or sing the Star-Spangled Banner or God Bless America (or for that matter the Alma Mater), that shouldn't be the end of their career.
You know, land of the free, home of the brave and all that. Compulsory loyalty exercises aren't supposed to be what we're about in this country.