Eric Reid, the cat that was at Kap’s side when he initially kneeled in protest of police brutality, racial and social injustice is still running around calling people sellouts. Anyone that doesn’t agree with the way Kaepernick currently handled this latest incident is being attacked by Reid.
He snapped on Stephen A. Smith for saying that Kap really didn’t want to play football based on the way he handled the workout by changing the venue, time, and showing up with a Kunta Kinte t-shirt on etc. Reid has been loose with the word sellout for the past two years when folks have handled things differently than he and his homebody Kap.
He didn’t have a job until the Carolina Panthers starting free safety Da’Norris Searcy was placed on injured reserve in September of 2018 for suffering his second concussion in a month. They signed Reid only after he promised them that he would find other ways to protest other than kneeling. It was Reid that told the Panthers that he wouldn’t be a distraction. So who sold out on the movement?
Now I’m not mad at him for deciding that he needed to get that check and that he would do things differently because every man has to eat and take care of his family. However, to run around the school yard and call boyz sellouts after he abandoned his boy is crazy.
Remember when the dun was publicly beefing with Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins before, during and after a game because he believed that Jenkins used the movement to get the Players Coalition, in which Jenkins co-founded, off of the ground. Once the NFL owners decided to donate $100 million to causes considered important to the coalition Jenkins stopped kneeling. Mission accomplished. He protested and got $100 million to change lives.
Reid and several other players left the coalition because they had a problem with that. According to Reid, “In the discussion that we had, Malcolm conveyed to us — based on discussions that he had with the NFL; that the money would come from funds that are already allocated to breast cancer awareness and Salute to Service. So it would really be no skin off the owners’ backs. They would just move the money from those programs to this one.”
Bruh…$100 million is $100 million!!! Who cares where the money came from as long as they can use it to change lives and further the cause of fighting police brutality, racial and social injustice. What else do you want him to do?
That’s like continuing to be mad and telling people to keep boycotting the Montgomery Bus System in 1956 after the boycott worked. Using Reid’s logic people in Montgomery should still be walking instead of riding public transportation even though we don’t have to give up our seats to white patrons. It makes no sense.
The real question is, how is the $100 million being used and what have they been able to accomplish by having it. Reid called Jenkins a sellout because he took the money and stopped kneeling. However, Reid settled out of court along with Kaepernick and promised the Panthers that he wouldn’t kneel anymore. Who’s really the sellouts?
Jenkins is only a sellout if he’d put the $100 million in his pocket and ran off with it. If the $100 million is changing lives and helping the organization fulfill it’s purpose then Reid sounds crazy calling Jenkins a sellout and he looks even crazier trying to fight him as a result of disagreeing with his methods.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X weren’t on the same page in pursuing civil rights in America. How stupid would they have looked standing out in the middle of the street fighting because they had a difference in methodology? If Malcolm Jenkins can change lives with the $100 million then allow him to do that. Eric Reid trying to fight him or calling him a sellout only makes two black men on national tv look stupid and degrades the movement by name calling and fighting.
The same goes for him calling Stephen A. Smith a sellout for trying to tell these young boyz how to navigate life in a world that doesn’t belong to them. Reid is hollerin’ about how the league is dirty and they’re wrong but he’s the one that promised to behave to get that check. He’s angry at the old heads for understanding that the NFL is privately owned and that once Kap took the money in the settlement without currently being on roster that he wasn’t getting back in.
He’s angry that the NFL can do whatever they want to do with their stuff and that’s the edited version. That’s cool if he wants to be angry but calling boyz sellouts when he’s the biggest sellout in the room is crazy.
This isn’t about Kaepernick getting a job playa. It’s about addressing the issue of police brutality, racial and social injustice in America. Kap started the awareness by kneeling but the dun didn’t vote. By not voting and telling the world that he didn’t vote mutes his entire movement because the only way we can change things in America is by VOTING.
We can’t complain about the powers that be if we do nothing to remove those powers that discriminate against us. You can’t complain about the judges, prosecutors and sheriffs if you stayed at home on election day. You can’t complain about the current administration in the White House if you didn’t participate in the political process. Standing around mad calling folks sellouts and wearing Kunta Kinte shirts doesn’t help us at all. Stop me when I start lyin’!
