Colin Kaepernick’s defense of Fidel Castro leaves Cuban journalist stunned

Last updated on: December 6, 2016 at 5:51 pm by Stacey Dash

Colin Kaepernick’s defense of Fidel Castro leaves Cuban journalist stunned 2016-12-06T17:51:01-07:00 Stacey Dash

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San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick is now more famous for his anti-American protests than for his career record. His kneeling during the national anthem has caused NFL ratings to drop and must be starting to affect his performance because he was benched in a recent game after doing so poorly.

Perhaps his mind is tired from all the mental gymnastics he’s doing to defend his beliefs. This was never more apparent than when Kaepernick was interviewed by a Cuban journalist for the Miami Herald.

Columnist Armando Salguero knows a thing or two about oppression. As a child living under the tyranny of Fidel Castro, his family was torn apart by Castro’s guerrillas just as they were boarding a plane to flee to America. A rifle-toting thug decided on the spot that only two of them could travel, leaving Salguero’s father behind and separated from the family for three years. Other family members were never allowed to reunite with them.

And that’s just one of countless stories of the legacy of the Castro rule, as the journalist explains:

Cuba for more than five decades under the Castros has stifled practically any and all dissent. According to Human Rights Watch, “Cuban citizens have been systematically deprived of their fundamental rights to free expression, privacy, association, assembly, movement, and due process of law. Tactics for enforcing political conformity have included police warnings, surveillance, short-term detentions, house arrests, travel restrictions, criminal prosecutions, and politically motivated dismissals from employment.”

Now go to Google images of the Ladies In White protesting on Cuba’s streets. Kaepernick, the poster child for protest among NFL players, should do this. He would see images of women — white, black, mothers, daughters, sisters — systematically violated in one form or another by Castro’s thugs.

They are harassed, spat upon, pushed and even bloodied simply because they are fighting to do in Cuba what Kaepernick does on an NFL sideline without fear or physical repercussion — just before he wears that Castro shirt to his postgame presser.

Everyone who saw Kaepernick’s shirt raised an eyebrow that America’s most notable hater was ostensibly supporting a brutal authoritarian. And in his interview with the quarterback, Salguero discovered the 49er thought quite highly of Castro:

“I wore a Malcolm X shirt,” he said…

So I remind Kaepernick that Castro was indeed on his shirt.

“I am a believer in Malcolm X and his ideology and what he talked about and what he believed in as far as fighting oppression,” Kaepernick said.

That, by the way, does not answer the question. Kaepernick is evading as if my question is an NFL linebacker on a blitz. So I interrupt. …

Are you a believer in Fidel Castro, who is also on that shirt?

“If you let me finish, please,” Kaepernick requested. “The fact he [Malcolm X] met with Fidel to me speaks to his open mind to be willing to hear different aspects of people’s views and ultimately being able to create his own views as far as the best way to approach different situations, different cultures.”

I’m hoping Kaepernick understands one should not make broad statements about standing up for people’s rights, then slip into a Fidel Castro shirt, suggesting approval for a man who has spent his days on the planet stifling people’s rights.

And that’s exactly the moment Kaepernick shows how lost he truly is. Because in the next breath, Kaepernick, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, explains to me, the guy born in Havana, how great Castro really is.

“One thing Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system, which we do not do here even though we’re fully capable of doing that,” Kaepernick said.

Is this real life?

As Salguero goes on to explain, Cuba isn’t at all known for its literacy rate but more for its “dungeons and firing squads.” Not to mention how “bizarre [it is] that Kaepernick is extolling the education system of a country where people believe launching out into shark-infested seas to flee is a better idea than staying there.”

Then, Salguero reminded Kaepernick how Cuban families are routinely broken up and not allowed to leave together. The 49er didn’t flinch and responded that the same is done to families here in America because of “mass incarceration” — something he likened to “slavery” and “the genocide of native Americans.”

Salguero sat stunned and couldn’t go on from there in the interview because Kaepernick was making the ridiculous comparison of “the breaking up of Cuban exile families by a dictator with people being sentenced to prison in the United States.”

Talk about a Hail Mary of logic.

I agree with Salguero’s conclusion: Kaepernick is a fraud and an “unrepentant hypocrite.”

And if you’re anything like me, you probably need a palette cleanser after reading all of that progressive lunacy, and I have the perfect dish.

Click CONTINUE to see Kaepernick get his just desserts from a Cuban-American linebacker:

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