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Former Fox Host Criticizes Colin Kaepernick (ft. Silent Mike)

#nfl#slavery#powerdynamic#formerfox#clauswhite
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0:00 [Music] i know me too a former fox host who says santa claus is white no he's got to be white isn't he german no he's an eskimo oh yeah class yeah that's german right saint nick nicholas class yeah i'm pretty sure he's german yeah he's probably white then no he's german yeah nicolas this good shot he's white saint nick yeah is it wait claw's the last name is it nicholas claus claus isn't he an elf no he's not what i do know is when i see an asian sound that doesn't look right to me yeah do you spit on them santa's huh asian santas or something oh they just look like monks dude fat monks with a beard santa

0:51 claus is a mascot right like that's all he is well the real santa though they're talking about the real santa not the not the mascots at the at the mall not the vietnamese ones hey don't be hating on malls all right so former fox host who said santa claus is white calls colin kaepernick a racist anybody hear about calling cabernet recently no what do you do came out with the documentary or something about kneeling no it's about like how he's tr i didn't watch dogma but i think it's supposed to be like equating nfl to slavery the combine so so actually the document is not fully about that no because i've heard that reference but that's the joke though right like oh no i've heard that's a real reference because it is a little weird it's hella weird like you bench press and all that okay okay and then they they like have you strip down and just stand yeah they do that's a little weird like the tom brady photo have you seen it no but it's probably funny this picture yeah

1:41 why would it do come up your dick and go take as much look at those they might grab your butt muscles they make you grab your balls and bull bend over and cough like the jails okay that's prison yeah i don't think they're worried about your coke addiction as long as you throw a ball so so that context he he dropped a doc uh it's actually not a documentary it's a fiction that is on netflix uh i think it's something about calling black or white or something like that it's more about him and his story in general and it's directed by ava duvernay from turlock you know turlock no anyone know turlock it's like uh near like modesto you know modesto yeah yeah oh yeah yeah that's where he's from oh okay from there okay yeah so eva duvernay farm town amazing amazing director uh they put together this i have a duverney bruh avid duverny there it is thank you uncultured swan

2:32 thank you swine i haven't called that in a while um they they put out this uh i guess this film about him and just things in general that do involve obviously be social stigma and racism in the current world and stuff but it's the first uh opening intro of the entire thing that is the most talked about thing so what you're referencing is this moment where he first talks about how everybody wants to be you know anybody who wants to go into football blah blah like i love the game when i was a kid and i wanted blah blah right but everybody knows if you want to be in the nfl if you want to go into a be real athlete you got to go through the combine first and then they show these uh very very you know uh they got all these like you know black actors that come in and pretend to be you know uh at the combine they're being tested and different things like that he's talking about how coaches come in and they want you to be an animal they want you to be a savage they want you to what's this point though

3:22 about this moment or about the whole thing just about the combine and like because all i've heard is just to tie in that with the slave rules i don't know his point so what happens so what happens is these guys and non and non-white and black guys in the nfl too and i guess the the reason why people were talking about is just because of this first part though that everybody's freaking out about and remembering because it's mainly just black people that come in and show that they're athletes or whatever and it's all like uh white coaches and stuff like that that are like test the white athletes don't go through the combat he's not showing that in this this opening part of the documentary also what it reminds people that just the imagery is it looks like it's not a reminder it's it's it's like depiction let me just finish the context and you'll understand ████ okay so from there all right he's talking about what the combine is how people get tested and then the imagery goes from them walking off the screen passing him and then it

4:12 goes into like back that is slavery so it's the same thing good transition then it transitions while he's still there giving kind of this like narrative or this monologue in the beginning and then it shows imagery where like like like we're talking about how they're like stripped down and stuff like that there's slaves being auctioned off being kind of measured for like how useful they might be and then he brings in mirrored uh imagery or parallel imagery in the nfl combine where they're also standing there getting their wingspan measured they're jumping and stuff like that and then he talks about how when you first get tested in the combine and the way they're talking about you and the way that they want you to do certain things he says what's really happening there is the fact that there's kind of like um they're teaching you uh or grooming you about the concept of like the power um dynamic within there and who's in control and that's kind of how he's pitching it so that's the first opening scene even though the entirety that's

5:02 controversial as ████ exactly i don't know uh that take is a little bit but that's been a long-term conversation especially in the nba which is predominantly black the nfl is still probably majority block maybe not predominantly um it is easily yeah and then don't quote me um but i'm pretty sure we need more diversity let's get some asian basketball players you got jeremy dude yeah but uh but we need more tall asians the other thing isn't uh always coaches because especially the nfl and nba there are more black coaches but they're the owners it's the owners i don't know if there's a majority owner in american sports that's black i might be wrong don't quote me but i don't think so that's the big argument yeah because we're talking like billionaires versus millionaires versus whatever right they're like well lebron james makes a hundred million you're like yeah the dude who's you know in this argument is puppeteering him is worth billions of dollars so where is that so are they trying to blame where the how the owners got there like i guess i'm trying to

5:52 figure out what the point is the power dynamic the power dynamic between a bunch of like really power dynamics how we arrived here i mean we get to control the future right so in the future if now we have all these athletes if they want to become the owners and like i don't know change the system we can well i think that that's why i think billionaires don't want to own sports teams i think billionaires jay-z's like a lot of musicians i don't know if he's a majority owner oh okay sam same with like magic johnson do you know what a team costs that ████ oh yeah multi-billion dollars yeah multi-billion so jay-z is worth a billion he can't be a majority owner of a three billion dollar team right yeah even if he spent all his work he could easily do it but but but he owns the tar heels right the uh no he owns uh bobcats yeah they're only the bobcats oh yeah charlotte hornets right he always but not even i don't think he's majority either i don't think he's majority yeah and that's jordan yeah but but i think

6:42 no no magic johnson's also not a majority he's a one-person owner yeah he's trying to shack only part oh cool is it like a race thing or is it more like who can actually afford it is so upper echelon like rich ████ as objective as just like ownership in the space i think it's talking about the power dynamic uh that involves like the theme of racism in general so for example this is also coming from a guy who pretty much quote unquote got blackballed by the entire you know league for doing something and and so it's more about like the theme of suppression is he trying to draw core because to me the way i'm seeing it it's like it maybe i don't understand but it feels like he's drawing he's just pulling parallels but he's almost tying his own conclusions and then also trying to imply something

7:33 is fishy but that i don't quite follow the line fishy but i think it's kind of like the uh uh like a quality of star like they obviously got a late start in american wealth and success i i think he is also trying to directly imply a particular thing because remember he was subdued in a sense right he specifically for who he was and what he was quote-unquote trying to kneel for was like uh rejected from the entirety of like that he got they didn't give him a chance with that yeah you've never heard the modern day slavery argument like modern day slavery is often tied to that even music i think for a long time was tied to that too like oh all these like more in the 90s it's a little different now but like oh still tied to it yeah yeah like all the artists are black and then like all the producers and uh people that own it yeah our our lawyer actually um fought for a lot of ████ up contracts that like for example sly

8:24 in a family stone master p all these music artists who were exploited back in the days um well not master people he's he's his lawyer but like but like yeah in the 70s 80s and on like you know they would take people from poor communities that were just like i want a record deal and then they would exploit them right so then he would go back and then get royalties get money and all that stuff so like um it does happen and that that that makes sense where people get exploited but the term slavery is pretty strong like we've been on the receiving end of some pretty s█████ contracts too right but we're still voluntarily signing two terms for sure right that's why it's called modern day slavery yeah but still it's still strong to include that it's like a modern day holocaust it's like it's pretty strong but if he says like modern day kind of got the ████ and it doesn't have any punch you're not making a documentary

9:14 what i'm saying is like that fishiness is he does it feel like it's turning up the dials of fishiness especially if you've benefited in the multi-millions you know taking the term slavery and then saying but then also living in a mansion at the same time you know it's just i don't know it just feels i think you can make money off something and then complain about it still yeah right because it's relative right and you probably know more about it because you were in it than like then before you were in it you know what i mean and and i don't know if you use the actual term slavery i think it was like artistic imagery and parallelism that like really kind of like i don't agree or disagree i'm just trying to explore the idea of what's going on to me it seems like whistleblowing because without this i wouldn't have known like how much teams cost and who's involved and all this stuff it's a pretty common topic i think nflpa versus the nfl is a constant thing and what's the nflpa nflp is an nfl players association

10:04 constant battle between them and the nfl because the nfl wants more games which means more injuries a lot of the time shorter careers less money less money that's in both nfl and nba and nfl contracts aren't like mlb contracts where people are secure like if you get ████ up you're done yeah and they're everyone's getting ████ up in that yeah they got quote better right because they just gave a little bit every time they give a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more but like you know the junior sales out there like the guys who killed themselves with cte maybe or that too right so there's an argument to be made for like you know having more players rights or more of a player's say against the owners who seem to dominate the conversation massively yeah better retirement programs because these guys there's no retirement yeah and again again coming from a dude like kaepernick who is he and his former teammate eric reid uh reached a settlement with the

10:54 nfl for less than 10 million after alleging the team owners colluded to keep them out of league as punishment for their protest so it's like they're also experiencing a really really unique power dynamic and struggle like regardless of the analogy to the nfl combine and like the idea of slavery and stuff so i could only imagine the amplification of like what that's that feeling or that theme or that parallel can can be like especially after the fact right so i mean it's arguable always because people do sign up to go to the nfl people kids are usually wanting to just do this because they love the game they dream about it yeah well because they have such point of privilege as like football players or nba players like the narrative is always like shut up and dribble shut up and do whatever yeah show up and throw a pick that's what i say until like the narrative kind of benefits them a little bit you know so it is kind of interesting to see how

11:44 people react i mean like well let's something similar that i can see the parallel in is like like britney spears right we're like yeah she's a celebrity she's doing great whatever but if those allegations are true about how her dad is exploiting the ████ out of her and all this it's still an unfair kind of quote unquote modern day slavery situation right so like it is good that they're shining a light on these kind of things but then like i don't know enough to actually like make a decision on on this ████ and see if it's bad or good he made money off of it he should shut up but that's what people want to hear right people say that's true who they were they telling kobe shut up and dribble or who was it they tell that to lebron i don't have an opinion shut up and dribble we just want to play we want to watch you play this yeah unless the the topic

12:34 benefits the owners and then they want them to speak up and to just give a little bit more on to the story of like why this things like this actually do stir stuff is because this uh former fox news host megyn kelly who was infamously declared santa who declared santa claus white i don't know that's funny yeah what's that have to do with that i have no idea he is white right it's literally german and also i guess you hear her like making it a racial thing point is she freaked out over the former nfl star uh and his comments on racism and she says she fox news you said yeah a former now she's on camera nick he's insane uh this is a racist guy he really is a racist guy and he hates our country he hates america it's just another day that sounds like some fox news journalist that's a hot take it's just another day that netflix gives this guy his own special and i'm like well i guess it's going to be about how racist america is turns out it's how racist colin kaepernick is so i mean like based a little bit based

13:25 though she's got to touch this lady so i guess the point is it does stir up conversation and it's not it's not meant to necessarily have everybody be like this is the decision this is how things should be but i think uh maybe they did a good job at least having people have a conversation have have they ever expressed what the ideal scenario is the players association it's a constant battle because the nfl has so much power like you're talking about billions and billions and billions of dollars and even roger goodell he works for all the owners he's there at the pleasure of the owners so it's really centralized as ████ like the players have a say now but they didn't always have one yeah but it's barely anything but it's a negotiation i don't even know if they have a say it's negotiations smith he's the head of the nflpa he constantly gets railroaded by the nfl like especially when it comes to retirement benefits all kinds of stuff they do have some of that now but it's not great and players complain about it

14:17 all the time and they should they're getting the ████ out of the stick at the end for sure well the average nfl career is three years max right and so you're talking about with a lifetime of cte and think about the guys that don't even make it to nfl like in pursuit to the average age of an nfl player is like in the 50s i think because you you just get a long long time career no no when they die when they die life expectancy yeah wow because of what they do to their bodies some of them are big guys and then cte and then crazy man isn't it like um also the amount of athletes that get picked is really small compared to the other sports too i mean yeah yes but this is baseball just also because baseball's farm teams just for more context too because the nfl can be so lucrative and it really is some people's only shot or else they have to go work at a car dealership or something there are guys who will stand outside of every stadium like around the time that they're

15:07 getting teams together and stuff with signs saying like hey like i can play i can throw i can catch i can do whatever and they'll stand there all ████ day to till they get a shot so like there's a lot to try out or something there's a lot of mixture here that's not necessarily involved in this conversation particularly like there's a lot of people who want to be there obviously and then yeah there's a lot of people who have been there who get the ████ under the stick like kaepernick did i think that's the most common right they get a ████ in the stick i mean i mean you know i talked to patrick muhammed i don't think he feels like he got the ████ in the stick [Music]

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