Clay Travis: Kaepernick, Empire Jussie's apparent fake hate crime, Trump wall

On today’s Outkick the Show, Clay Travis talked about Colin Kaepernick and his recent decision not to accept an opportunity to play quarterback for the AAF because he demanded upwards of $20 million a season. Travis pointed out that players in the AAF are making on average $75,000 a season, regardless of position or experience. The entire league is being paid a total of around $28 million. Kaepernick is choosing martyrdom over a career as a football player. In contrast, Eric Reid, another polarizing player, humbled himself and accepted a below-market salary in order to play in the NFL, did well, and, as a result, just signed a $20 million contract to play next season.

If Kaepernick was genuinely interested in playing football again, pointed out Travis, he could have played a season in the AAF, potentially dominated the league, and then could have returned to the NFL. Clearly, said Travis, Colin Kaepernick is not interested in retiring from martyrdom and rejoining the ranks professional football.

Kaepernick, said Travis, likes to compare himself to Muhammed Ali. Ali, however, returned to the sport of boxing after his brief stint as a political martyr, and proved himself, once again, as the greatest boxer in the world once again. Colin Kaepernick, on the other hand, is reveling in martyrdom and appears to be pleased with being a professional victim as a viable career path. This, because, Colin Kaepernick knows he isn’t good enough to win in the NFL anymore, said Travis.

Clay Travis reminded his audience that Colin Kaepernick decided to take a knee after Blaine Gabbert took his position as quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers. Kaepernick was spending Sundays holding a clipboard rather than playing football. This, said Travis, is why Kaepernick decided to join the ranks of the perpetual martyrs known as social justice warriors.

Travis then addressed the apparent staged “MAGA hate crime” in Chicago. An actor by the name of Jussie Smollett who has a role on a TV show called Empire was involved in an effort to become famous for being a victim, is now under an investigation for staging a hate crime. Travis mentioned that two men from Nigeria have now been arrested for their part in the fantastically staged hate crime supposedly including a noose, bleach and MAGA hats.

Clay Travis identified a trend of false narratives involving alleged hate crimes by white males toward people of color. The first being the story about a little girl in Houston being shot by a white man. The story, said Travis, suddenly disappeared when the shooter was proven to be a black man. Similarly, said Travis, the MAGA-hatted Catholic high school boys from Kentucky were also falsely villainized for alleged racist activity at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, but were proven to be innocent after an unedited version of a video surfaced.

And now, said Travis, after politicians — including Kamala Harris — immediately jumped in to capitalize on the Jussie Smollett story to help further their leftist cause, the news story will suddenly disappear if it is proven to be staged, as all the other stories have as well.

Clay Travis further pointed out that we, as a society, have gone from immediately assuming a black person is guilty for committing a crime, to immediately calling any white person a racist for even considering a black person might actually be guilty. It is still racist, said Travis, and we have skipped over the concept of equal justice under the laws. It’s just another form of racism, we have swung from one extreme to another.

Precedent is everything, said Travis, as was the most important lesson he learned in law school. The democrats in the senate set a dangerous precedent with their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh, said Travis, and Fairfax would be treated far more harshly if he were a republican, and especially a white republican.

Clay Travis continued by sharing six tenets that transcend politics:

1. Western civilization is the greatest thing to ever happen to humans on this planet.

This means that, shocker, white men are not all evil.

2. Capitalism is the best form of economy to exist in world history and a capitalistic democracy is the best combination of economy and governance structure to ever exist in world history.

3. Things are getting better across the world, not worse, every single day.

4. A robust and uninhibited first amendment should be encouraged even if I don’t like everything that is said. Or even if, shocker, sometimes I’m offended by what’s said.

5. Cultural appropriation, far from being a bad thing, should be encouraged.

That is, we should all take the best things that have ever been made by anyone and bring them to the masses.

6. Humans, particularly children, are strong not fragile.

Finally, Travis shared his opinion on the recent controversy surrounding President Donald Trump and the wall.The wall is mostly a metaphor and the courts should determine to the president’s authority on the matter.