Colin Kaepernick is the man to talk about, and not in a bad way. If anything, in a good way to young African-American boys in particular. If you're not familiar with Colin Kaepernick, he's a former NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers. He's now out of a job and every team refuses to sign him simply because he kneeled during the national anthem to protest against police brutality. Something that's a major issue in America.
We're always told how we need to talk about race, and when we do talk about race it's clearly uncomfortable for "the other side" to the point we have to be quite or else. That's exactly what happened with Colin Kaepernick. What is really disrespectful to American Veterans is the fact that not all are/were treated equally. So to make an outrageous argument about kneeling is disrespecting a piece of cloth with an undesirable amount of disheartening history that was swept underneath it, I will kindly tell you to have a nice day, but I don't want to hear it. Colin Kaepernick is a man we all can learn from. Like I have always followed the good saying, if you don't stand for something, then you'll fall for anything.
Anyway, congratulations Colin Kaepernick. We hope to see you in more magazines and being talked about in general. It truly does take guts to be the voice of reason even when it appears that nobody is hearing you, but we do and we're taking notes. Will we ever be a nation to successfully get rid of racism? I doubt it, but we can dismantle it.
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