NAACP Says Kaepernick’s Unemployment Is A Civil Rights Issue. No, It’s A Business Decision.

When it comes to entertainers, there’s a common expression: “Shut up and sing.” The meaning, of course, is if we want a political diatribe we’ll flip to Chris Matthews or Rush Limbaugh. What we want from performers is to show us your stuff in the arena for which your talents are well-known. You write gripping homages to life in the grittier parts of the Jersey Shore? Cool. Sing Rosalita. You’re a gifted actor? Wonderful, dazzle us with your perfectly nuanced Sophie Zawitowski. You write best-sellers? Great. Tell us all about Hogwarts.

And … if you play football and are the seventeenth-best quarterback in the NFL, as Gerald Griggs of the Atlanta NAACP reminded Tucker Carlson last week seven times in a five-minute segment, then excel for us on the gridiron.