by Sandy » Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:07 pm
Kapernick gave money to a small organization, mainly of African American women in the city of Chicago that helps create awareness of oppression and advocates for liberation from it, trains young people in how to successfully organize for a cause, and models some self dependence and resource management. It's named after someone that the vast majority of the African American community sees as a victim of racially motivated injustice. I don't see any issue with credibility there, and his contribution is certainly consistent with what he sees and feels is an issue. It is irrelevant to his credibility whether anyone else sees it the same way.
None of these organizations, even the ones with a reputation for violence (which this one doesn't have, btw), sprang up in some kind of vacuum. There are few Caucasian Americans who could even begin to understand the depths of emotion that formed from generations of oppression, and many who are either not interested, or think it's just whining. Most whites either let their eyes just slip past what happened, or ignore it, or deny it ever happened, and even if there were a higher level of awareness, most don't have any kind of experience to which to relate it. There's no credibility lost here, and no hidden, dark intention in the contributions Kaepernick, or any other NFL players, have made within the spectrum of the African American community.