No sports figure created more discussion.
Nobody could have seen the above sentence — the headline of this piece — coming. Ten years ago, Colin Kaepernick was a good college quarterback in a minor conference. His fascinating background — he’d been born and placed for adoption in Wisconsin, where a family that had lost two boys previously to heart defects took him in — was not yet well known even to fans of the Nevada Wolfpack, the team for which he played.
The popular, cynical view is that nobody has ever changed their mind thanks to Facebook comment screeds. And, sure, I doubt your Marine uncle was swayed by the rhetoric of your freshman roommate or vice versa, but Kaepernick launched literally millions of these discussions. Let’s not pretend that the culture remained unmoved
The list goes on and on and on. Kaepernick became a political cudgel for Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, and the president continued using the blackballed QB to stir his supporters throughout his term. It seems a safe bet to say Kaepernick will be mentioned as the 2020 campaign boils over in the coming months.
What’s most shocking, in retrospect, is how early Kaepernick acknowledged that fact. In late August of 2016, after he was first noticed sitting for the anthem, he gave an exclusive interview to the NFL’s Steve Wyche to explain his decision — “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he said — but also showed clearly that he understood the stakes.
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