Ted Cruz sacks Colin Kaepernick, grabs ball, and scores (on Twitter)

Thomas Lifson  "Colin Kaepernick, Nike's commissar of America-hatred, may have been a quarterback, but he took a half-a--ed approach to anti-slavery hero Frederick Douglass.  Flaunting the blinders that progressives wear when they consider our collective history, he took a quotation out of context in order to try to score an own goal against the country that birthed him, made him a multi-millionaire, and now indulges him in his extended adolescence.

Fortunately, Ted Cruz knows much more than Kaepernick and demolished his point on Twitter (hat tip: Twitchy).

Incidentally, President Trump's patriotic and utterly non-partisan speech yesterday on the National Mall (watch it here) included praise of the "great Frederick Douglass" among other heroes of our past.

"Weak point:"...Sen. Cruz gives Kaepernick the context of Douglass's statement

Ted Cruz Schools Kaepernick on His Quote From Frederick Douglass Speech

. . . "As for Cruz’s second point: “Douglass was not anti-American; he was, rightly and passionately, anti-slavery. Indeed, he concluded the speech as follows:

“ 'Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country.

“ 'There are forces in operation, which must inevitably, work the downfall of slavery. ‘The arm of the Lord is not shortened,’ and the doom of slavery is certain.

“ 'I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from ‘the Declaration of Independence,’ the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.' ”. . . 

If only it had not taken us so many decades for Americans to live up to the aspirations of our founding documents. If only we could go back in time and right the wrongs done to the Tuskegee Airmen and those excluded from society by Jim Crow laws and many vicious racists, including sadly, my own flesh and blood in the deep South. But I want not one penny to go into the coffers of the Sharptons, Farrakhans and Maxine Waters who only bring shame on those African-Americans who are so much better than them. TD