Colin Kaepernick: Eric Reid Being ‘Actively’ Blackballed by NFL in Free Company
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Eric Reid is nice 28 years aged and used to be a dominant safety for the Carolina Panthers final season nonetheless stays with out a job within the NFL as the 2020 advertising and marketing and marketing campaign gets underway.
Former teammate Colin Kaepernick thinks there could be a cause of that.
“Whereas the NFL runs propaganda about how they care about Black Lifestyles, they’re mute actively blackballing Eric Reid for preventing for the Black neighborhood,” Kaepernick tweeted. “Eric set 2 franchise data final 365 days, and is one of many correct defensive avid gamers within the league.”
Kaepernick and Reid were teammates with the San Francisco 49ers from 2013-16. Reid used to be the major to affix Kaepernick in kneeling for the duration of the national anthem as a strategy of protesting police brutality and systemic racism.
The 2013 Pro Bowler done for the 49ers for the duration of the major 5 years of his profession and the Panthers the final two years. He posted 130 tackles, four sacks, six passes defended, two fumble recoveries and a compelled fumble for the duration of the 2019 season.
Mike Florio of Pro Soccer Talk neatly-known Reid set the Panthers franchise story for many tackles by a safety and most sacks by a safety, which Kaepernick referenced in his tweet.
The quarterback, who also stays unsigned, also talked about the NFL’s “propaganda about how they care about Black Lifestyles.” Analis Bailey of USA Nowadays neatly-known the league place signage in destroy zones announcing “It Takes All of Us” and “Slay Racism” for Week 1, while some avid gamers are carrying decals on their helmets to honor victims of racial injustice.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stated in June that the league used to be “imperfect for now not paying attention to NFL avid gamers earlier” and encouraged avid gamers to “teach out and peacefully pronounce.”
The comments came in accordance to a video that contains a lot of the NFL’s stars inquiring for a league response to the police killing of George Floyd:
NFL @NFL
We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black Folks. We, the NFL, admit we were imperfect for now not paying attention to NFL avid gamers earlier and reduction all to talk out and peacefully pronounce. We, the NFL, deem Black Lives Topic. #InspireChange https://t.co/ENWQP8A0sv
In 2019, Kaepernick and Reid agreed to a settlement with the NFL concerning their collusion grievances filed against the league.