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Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid Likely Settled With NFL for Less Than $10 Million: Report
What is the price of pushing players out of the National Football League and preventing them from playing again because they silently protested against racial inequality and the pervasive and very real threat of unarmed black men and women being shot and killed by police in the United States with impunity? If you are former…
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Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid Reach Settlement in NFL Collusion Case: Report
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and current Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid have reached a confidential settlement effectively ending their collusion lawsuit with the NFL that argued owners worked to keep both men off the field for protesting the killings of unarmed black men, women and children by police. Both Kaepernick and Reid found themselves…
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Safety Eric Reid Was Drug Tested 7 Times in 11 Weeks. The NFL Swears it Was Totally Random
Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid needs to play the lottery because he’s a lucky man. So lucky, in fact, that when the NFL is randomly drug testing its players, Reid has been fortunate enough to have had his name chosen seven times in 11 weeks. And get this, the NFL, the league that Reid is…
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Eric Reid Has Been Drug Tested 7 Times in 11 Weeks Because the NFL is the Trump Administration of Sports
The NFL is the Trump administration of American sports leagues. Despite being almost 70 percent black, the NFL ownership doesn’t care about black people. They bend policies, hire accused domestic abusers, and make no bones about doing whatever they want with impunity. Sounds a lot like the current administration, doesn’t it? So either Carolina Panthers…
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NFL Safety Eric Reid Has Been Drug Tested 6 Times in 8 Games But That's Probably Just a Coincidence
Because the NFL, much like America, is a fair place that doesn’t see color, there has to be another reason that Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid has been drug tested some six times since joining the team at the end of September. According to Bleacher Report, Reid, who just so happens to have been the…
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Eric Reid vs. Malcolm Jenkins Is What Happens When Black Lives Matters Confronts All Lives Matter
To place Philadelphia Eagles Malcolm Jenkins in the proper historical context, just call him the Ralph Abernathy to Colin Kaepernick’s Martin Luther King Jr. Sure, Jenkins didn’t help the FBI in its attempts to discredit King’s voice by confirming King had extramarital affairs, which is what Abernathy did to King. But Jenkins caught the coattails…
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Safety Eric Reid Just Signed With the Carolina Panthers. Here’s Why This Sucks for Colin Kaepernick
A bittersweet moment for the Movement for Black Lives took place on Thursday when it was announced that the Carolina Panthers have signed free agent Eric Reid. Reid, 26, is a former Pro Bowler who can play some five positions on defense, yet he remained a free agent because he was the second person to…
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Serena Williams Says Everyone Should Be 'Grateful and Honored' For Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid
NFL free agents Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid have gotten a major boost of support from the greatest athlete on the planet, Serena Williams. Kaepernick and Reid, two former San Francisco 49ers who have yet to find work in the league after protesting police brutality during the national anthem by taking a knee, were in…
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Colin Kaepernick’s Lawyer: Somebody Is Ready to Snitch on the NFL
The attorney for currently unemployed NFL stars and former San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid dropped a bomb Wednesday on CNN when he hinted that a witness in their collusion case against the powerful football league was ready to drop dime with concrete evidence proving that NFL owners conspired to keep both men…
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The NFL Is Being Guided by an Immoral Compass
In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Some 60 years later, the NFL has shown that the moral compass guiding it is bending on an arc toward a potential unjust blackballing of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid for protesting against systemic…