Kiko Alonso, the 239-pound linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, may have had a little extra motivation this week, thanks to Colin Kaepernick.
Kaepernick, the anti-American and now pro-Communist, pro-Dictator quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, spent time during interviews this week to praise former Cuban president, Fidel Castro.
Alonso is the son a Cuban exile.
During an interview with Miami reporters earlier this week, Kaepernick sported a t-shirt that featured the dictator meeting with Malcolm X, then praised Castro for investing in Cuba’s education system, as opposed to the American investment in the prison system.
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On Sunday, Kaepernick’s 49ers took on the Dolphins in Miami, a city which hosts a large population of Cuban exiles who were forced to flee Castro’s brutal regime.
Alonso, the son of a Cuban immigrant, was the defensive star of the game recording 12 tackles, 2 quarterback hits, recovering a fumble and hauling in an interception.
Better yet, he sealed the victory on the game’s final play by absolutely leveling Kaepernick.
Symbolic that a Cuban American, @Kiko__Alonso, would knock some sense into a Fidel admirer (@Kaepernick7)! #FinsUp #ConorStrut #47 pic.twitter.com/fnCOwt5ovB
— Tito in Miami (@Tito305Sports) November 27, 2016
It is being referred to as poetic justice.
Alonso himself, posted a picture of the game-saving tackle on his Instagram with the hashtag #cubalibre – Free Cuba.
Via the Miami Herald:
… if you still aren’t certain what mind-set the Alonso family brought to Sunday’s game as it pertained to the San Francisco quarterback, allow them to make it more clear:
“I got interviewed earlier about what I thought of him [Kaepernick], and I said it’s about immaturity,” Carlos (Alonso’s father) said. “He doesn’t know about the suffering the Cuban people have had. He doesn’t have a clue.”
Kiko chimed in …
“He’s ignorant,” he said.
“He still has no clue what a ruthless killer of the Cuban people this guy [Castro] was,” Carlos finished.
Having no clue is kind of Kaepernick’s thing. After complaining about supposed “oppression” he’s witnessed in America, he proceeded to not cast a vote in this past election. He refers to police officers as pigs. And now he shows love for a man who had thousands upon thousands of political opponents killed in firing squads.
It’s fitting that a man whose father had to escape the clutches of Castro’s dictatorship was the same man who put Kaepernick on his back to end the game.
Cross-posted at the Political Insider
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