{"id":48961,"date":"2016-09-04T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T01:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48961"},"modified":"2016-09-04T01:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T01:15:34","slug":"black-like-him-colin-kaepernick-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48961","title":{"rendered":"Black Like Him: Colin Kaepernick And Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamesmenplay.com\/blog\/2016\/8\/31\/black-like-him-colin-kaepernick-and-race\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black Like Him: Colin Kaepernick And Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamesmenplay.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">The Games Men Play: Sports. Culture. Sex.<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamesmenplay.com\/about-the-author\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Georgette Gouveia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly in America could a conversation about racial oppression devolve into one black millionaire calling out a biracial millionaire for not knowing what&#8217;s it&#8217;s like to be truly oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So posted Mark Thomas on an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESPN\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> thread about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rodney_Harrison\" target=\"_blank\">Rodney Harrison<\/a> criticizing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_49ers\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> after he sat through the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Star-Spangled_Banner\" target=\"_blank\">National Anthem<\/a> in a preseason game to protest violence toward blacks and other people of color in this country. Harrison said that Kaepernick \u2013 whom all eyes will be on when the Niners take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Diego_Chargers\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Chargers<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBS\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thursday_Night_Football\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday Night Football<\/a>\u201d \u2013 didn\u2019t know what it was like to be a black man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamesmenplay.com\/blog\/2016\/8\/31\/black-like-him-colin-kaepernick-and-race\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Like Him: Colin Kaepernick And Race The Games Men Play: Sports. Culture. Sex. 2016-08-31 Georgette Gouveia \u201cOnly in America could a conversation about racial oppression devolve into one black millionaire calling out a biracial millionaire for not knowing what&#8217;s it&#8217;s like to be truly oppressed.\u201d So posted Mark Thomas on an ESPN thread about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[24878,8952,24932,24933,24908,24879,7222,24931],"class_list":["post-48961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-football","tag-georgette-gouveia","tag-mark-thomas","tag-rodney-harrison","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-the-games-men-play-sports-culture-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48962,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48961\/revisions\/48962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}