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Jaime Crawford / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 8, 2024
In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, protesting “police brutality and racial injustice in America.” In the aftermath, the NFL ousted Kaepernick for his peaceful demonstration.
But Kaepernick’s social activism has extended way beyond and before the kneeling. In one example, after the police lynched Mario Woods in 2015 a
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