Both are quite admirable and more than I've ever done, thanks for the additional data points.
Maybe he's more of a "Think locally, act locally" kind of guy?
Perhaps demanding BOTH world class athletic performance AND in-depth, nuanced geopolitical analysis is setting the bar a tad too high?
His shirt was misunderstood...and no one listened when he corrected it. And his castro comments were misunderstood.
I'll give everyone who misunderstood based on him not being as clear as he should, but otherwise, esp after he corrected it, people should be able to drop the "he loves castro" rhetoric.
To be concise about his statements (and maybe clearer than he was):
1) His malcolm X shirt included castro to show willingness to listen to even your complete opposite opponents.
2) His comments about the good things castro did was to show a comparison between two entities and their educating and imprisoning. If a BAD person figured out its better to spend more resources on education and jail fewer people, why havent GOOD people figured it out. It was meant to be a "duh" kinda statement. Like when you have a dumb friend (lets call him john) and you tell another friend "duh, even John was able to figure that out"
BOTH of those statements kept in his intended contexts are GOOD for the 49ers and the nfl. Listening to those you disagree with...AMAZING thing to do, for anyone and everyone. It makes you smarter and it helps you do more good. Working to get people to spend resources on GOOD more than BAD...also good.
The 49ers and NFL should really be proud of these stances, and if it werent for the false rhetoric and fake outrage going around, they could be doing MUCH more good together than colin is able to do as a single person.
