Sportswriter (and Cuba native) confronts Colin Kaepernick on pro-Castro comments

Miami Herald columnist Armando Salguero, a native of Havana, entered a conference call with San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick prior to the Dolphins/Niners game on Sunday. At one point Salguero pressed Kaepernick on why he would wear a shirt depicting a meeting between Malcolm X and Fidel Castro in 1960. Salguero asked why an athlete who began a movement of protesting oppression of minority groups would wear a shirt with Castro on it, a man who turned a thriving Cuban island into rubble, jailed and brutalized political opponents, and eliminated most freedoms Americans take for granted.

Kaepernick deferred to his wearing “a Malcolm X shirt,” and “the fact he [Malcolm X] met with Fidel to me speaks to his open mind to be willing to hear different aspects of people’s views and ultimately being able to create his own views as far as the best way to approach different situations, different cultures.”

To a reporter like Salguero, whose father was forced to remain behind for three years in 1967 when the family was scheduled to fly away from Cuba for good, this wasn’t exactly a solid answer. Kaepernick (who admitted he did not voted in this election), and other liberals such as Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, continue to drink the Presidente Kool-Aid of propaganda. Kaepernick on Castro’s work: “One thing Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system, which we do not do here even though we’re fully capable of doing that.”

Like Marco Rubio said in 2014, “Here’s the problem: they can only read censored stuff. They’re not allowed access to the Internet. The only newspapers they’re allowed to read are Granma or the ones produced by the government.” Read Salguero’s full column and you can feel the hurt in every word he’s typed, because they are more than just characters on a page, it’s a life he’s lived that Kaepernick knows nothing about.

Before the teams kicked off, Kaepernick was booed by Dolphins fans, and then on the very last play of the game, with San Francisco driving downfield to try and tie it up, Kaepernick was sacked two yards shy of the endzone by Kiko Alonso, the son of a Cuban immigrant raised in Puerto Rico.

In a press conference afterward, the Niners quarterback said he simply supported concepts like investment in education and universal healthcare, not Castro’s regime.