Colin Kaepernick the former Quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who led his team to the Superbowl in 2012 has been a free agent for over 3 years. Kaepernick recently posted a video on his Instagram with the caption " Staying Ready Against the Odds." Kaepernick has been out of the NFL for three seasons because of the movement he started on August 14th, 2016 during a preseason game. He sat down during the national anthem. and then after a few more games passed would kneel next to his teammates in protest to police brutality. Almost every other team had players who kneeled during the anthem to show their support to Kaepernick and to stand up to raise awareness to police brutality. Kaepernick received a lot of backlash but argued it is his right to protest the anthem.
In this video the beginning shot is a title saying " Denied work for" and then set of numbers that go up from 0 until they hit 917. The rest of the video is him passing the ball to the well-known wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. who now plays for the Browns. In this cleverly edited video, while Kaepernick is throwing passes to Beckham the video switches from Color to Black & White to signify a deeper meaning.
 

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