The Politics of HollyWeird: Kaepernick’s Historic Blunder

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Editor’s Note: Whether on display or off, Hollywood can all the time be counted on to maintain us entertained. This is particularly true in terms of politics. Join us every week as we shine the highlight on Tinseltown’s A-listers and their whacky and generally inspiring takes on in the present day’s present occasions.

Colin Kaepernick Compares NFL Players to Slaves

Not one to remain out of the controversial highlight for lengthy, former NFL participant Colin Kaepernick has a brand new Netflix eight-part collection, Colin in Black & White. The present revolves round his experiences being biracial and adopted by two white mother and father. One episode is receiving specific consideration as he compares the NFL gamers parading round in entrance of coaches and scouts to slaves being inspected by their white masters.

“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick defined, then added:

“Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respect. No dignity left intact.”

The scene then modifications to an open market within the slavery period the place the gamers are shirtless and shackled, being bought to at least one of the slave homeowners who, now within the current day, shakes fingers with a soccer coach.

The View host Sunny Hostin thought Kaepernick was spot on, saying:

“When you think about the NFL and the concussion lawsuits, you have like race-based testing to compensate them. And you know, the majority of the owners of the NFL are white men. The majority of the players are black men. So there is – that comparison he makes to slave owners and slaves is not totally unreasonable and out of bounds.

“He loves the sport, but the white owners have prevented him from doing it. They’ve colluded, and they have all the power to prevent him from doing the one thing that he loves.”

Guest host Michele Tafoya didn’t agree, opining, “If they believed he could win them a Super Bowl, he would be on a team right now. I promise you that.”

She wasn’t the one one. Several folks took to Twitter to submit their outrage. One individual wrote: “Slaves had NO choice whereas all these men FROM ALL RACES AND CULTURE BACKGROUNDS chose to go to the combine for a chance at becoming pro and make millions.” And Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), who performed within the NFL within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s and is black, stated: “How dare @Kaepernick7 compare the evil endured by so many of our ancestors to a bunch of millionaires who CHOSE to play game.”

Wasn’t it not too way back that Kaepernick stated he was nonetheless coaching as a result of he needed to get again into the sport?

More Drama for Baldwin Movie Set

On the set of the western film manufacturing Rust, Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. Since then, data has surfaced about the whole lot from inexperienced staff to unhealthy working circumstances to sabotage.

Some stories counsel Baldwin and the crew broke a number of business gun security guidelines set forth by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, particularly the stipulation that adamantly forbids pointing a gun at a member of the solid or crew except it’s fully important. The guidelines warn actors and workers to “Refrain from pointing the firearm at anyone, including yourself. If it is absolutely necessary to do so on camera, consult the property master or other safety representative … Remember that any object at which you point a firearm could be destroyed.”

Baldwin, who has remained largely quiet in regards to the accident, reposted on his Instagram account a remark from costume designer Terese Magpale Davis who additionally labored on the Rust set. Davis claimed the accusations of unsafe working circumstances weren’t true. “I worked on this movie,” she wrote. “The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bull—-.”

However, stories point out the gun that killed Hutchins had been used earlier that day by crew members, with stay bullets, to shoot at beer cans in a recreation referred to as “plinking.” The gun had additionally been left unattended for 2 hours earlier than the taking pictures.

Lawyers for the armorer on the set, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, counsel sabotage. Attorneys Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence informed Savannah Guthrie, host of Today, that their consumer loaded the gun from a field labeled “dummy rounds.” Bowles prompt:

“The person who put the live round in that box had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set, there’s no other reason you would do that. I believe that somebody who would do that would want to sabotage the set, want to prove a point, want to say that they’re disgruntled, they’re unhappy. And we know that people had walked off the set the day before.”

Matthew Hutchins, Halyna’s husband, has reportedly employed a legislation agency that handles wrongful loss of life litigation and will file a lawsuit, naming a number of people.

Cheers And Jeers

Sometimes, HollyWeird gamers make headlines for foolish or weird happenings, so here’s a assortment of newsworthy doings – honorable and dishonorable – by the tenants of Tinseltown.

Greta Thunberg’s Potty Mouth

The younger local weather change activist determined that cursing was a sensible transfer whereas exterior the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Singing to the youngsters’s tune of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain,” Thunberg chanted, “You can shove your climate crisis up your ar–.” She then announced, “This is what leadership looks like. We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and nature and the planet … No more whatever the f— they’re doing inside there.”

The profanity didn’t get many good evaluations, so the 18-year-old Swede determined to wash up her potty mouth. Thunberg took to Twitter to relay the information, posting: “I am pleased to announce that I’ve decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language. In the event that I should say something inappropriate I pledge to compensate that by saying something nice. #COP26.”

Celebrity Tweets

Celebrities say the darndest issues …

Kevin Sorbo

Hercules had lots to say this previous week. With all of the hype in regards to the “Let’s go, Brandon” slogan, Sorbo posted a tweet mocking the press: “Media: Trust us! We’re the good guys! We don’t lie! Also media: The crowd is clearly chanting ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’”

Then, taking a pop at animal rights group PETA, the actor wrote: “I wish I could have made this up…but, it’s true. PETA says the term ‘bullpen’ is ‘speciest’ and recommends baseball replace the term with ‘arm barn’ because it would be less offensive to cattle.”

Randy Quaid

Known for motion pictures reminiscent of National Lampoon’s Vacation, Randy Quaid selected to chastise President Biden for his immigration failures and provide to offer separated households $450,000 in compensation. “That [migrant] caravan is moving faster and faster now that Biden is offering them our tax dollars, Biden is going for 10% approval rating,” he tweeted.

Kristy Swanson

Swanson, who performed Buffy within the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was within the hospital with COVID when she speculated on Twitter about New Jersey’s slim gubernatorial election: “Did another unmarked flight come in from the border last night into some random North Jersey airport? Dropping off illegals holding ballots for [Phil] Murphy?”

Tune in subsequent week to see what else Tinseltown has deliberate.

~ Read extra from Kelli Ballard.