By WMAL.com
After six years of being sidelined from the NFL the BLM activist Colin Kaepernick has officially secured an official workout with the Las Vegas Raiders. ESPN reporter Adam Schefter broke the story on Wednesday, tweeting out. “Colin Kaepernick, who last played football in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, is scheduled to work out this week for the Las Vegas Raiders, league sources told ESPN.”
Kaepernick became famous in 2016, not for his play on the field, but his refusal to stand for the national anthem and respect the country that had made him millions. Football fans across the country quickly turned on the mediocre quarterback and his efforts to politicize America’s favorite sports league.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder,” said Kaepernick.
Since leaving the NFL, Kaepernick has led several woke efforts to pressure companies like Nike to scale back their patriotism and love for America in favor of integrating BLM focused messaging into their products and advertising. In his docuseries “Colin in Black and White” he went as far as to comparing multi-million dollar athletes in the NFL to being treated like “slaves” by the league.
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