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Akiem Hicks on Colin Kaepernick's unemployment: We signed Mike Glennon
Akiem Hicks could have said a lot when asked about Colin Kaepernick's continued unemployment.
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Akiem Hicks on Colin Kaepernick’s unemployment: We signed Mike Glennon
Posted by Charean Williams on June 3, 2020, 5:38 PM EDT
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Akiem Hicks could have said a lot when asked about Colin Kaepernick’s continued unemployment. Instead, he needed only four words to make his point.
“We signed Mike Glennon,” the Bears defensive lineman said Wednesday, via Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Bears signed Glennon to a three-year, $45 million contract with $18.5 million guaranteed in March 2017 when Kaepernick was a free agent. Glennon started four games before Mitchell Trubisky took over.
Glennon has signed three times since then, while Kaepernick hasn’t played since 2016. In fact, Kaepernick hasn’t even gotten so much as a workout since parting ways with the 49ers.
NFL teams have blackballed Kaepernick since he took a knee during the national anthem to protest racial inequality, Hicks said.
“All I will say is this: We saw it. We watched how it unfolded,” Hicks said. “And we see that he doesn’t have a job now. This call isn’t to advocate for Kaep getting a job, but he did sacrifice his position for where he is now. His career was ended because of it, in my opinion.”
He then added his exclamation point: “We signed Mike Glennon.”
Hicks later said about his Glennon line, “You heard that, huh? Yeah, I said that. It was a feeling.”
Hicks hopes what’s happening around the world after the death of George Floyd will change things.
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Your black friend is trying to be ok.
Your Black friend in the past 30 days has watched a Black man get shot dead while jogging (Ahmaud Arbery), a Black woman get shot dead while sleeping (Breona Taylor), and the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Your Black friend has also listened to the President of the United States use segregationist words as a veiled threat.
Your Black friend is trying to be ok.
Please don't ask us about the looting.
Please don't chastise us about the rioting.
Please don't tell us that all lives matter.
Please don't minimize our fear.
Please don't bring up Black on Black crime.
Please don't ask "What about Chicago?"
Please don't say "if you'd just act like (A Wildly Successful Black Person... Usually Oprah, Obama, Colin Powell, Denzel or Will Smith)". Please don't judge us
Your Black friend is trying to be ok.
Listen to your Black friend.
Empathize with your Black friend.
Support your Black friend.
Pray for your Black friend.
Pray with your Black friend.
Just let your Black friend know you really care.
Your Black friend will remember who truly had their back during this difficult time. They will remember who was more concerned about a looted Target. They will remember you posting a thinly veiled and racially offensive meme. They will remember you calling looters "Savages". They will remember your silence about their Black life and the Black Lives of others.
It's real easy.
Do whatever you can to help your Black friend out because your Black friend is trying to be ok.....
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