Colin Kaepernick’s jersey is the bestselling one in the NFL, even though the league has blacklisted him for protesting police brutality, and wearing his jersey elicits hostile reactions from right-wing football fans. Soon this is how we’ll express ourselves politically, not by protests or letters to the editor, but via our licensed sports merchandise.
The Revolution Will Be Jerseyized
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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My god, how the money rolls in….
Henri
And the teams that are colluding to keep Kaepernick out of the game are profiting from the sale of his jersey.
No news is bad news to the profits-over-people team in the league offices.
Fascists drink beer from mugs, and Commies drink highballs and hard liquor from shot glasses. Now I know how to tell them apart! 😀
They’re both elites. True revolutionaries drink straight from the bottle.
yup!!
Sports, eh? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…