In 2012, Colin Kaepernick led his team, the San Fransisco 49ers to the superbowl. In 2017 he would be playing his last season as a quarterback by supporting those without a voice. In a preseason same in 2016 Kaepernick sat during the national anthem. Kaepernick tells NFL media. " I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." At that time the league had responded by saying standing up for the anthem was encouraged but not required. The NFL was initially behind Kaepernick and his form of protesting for unarmed black men being murdered by police officers and white supremacists. The first regular season game many players on different NFL teams begin to kneel or raise a fist along with Kaepernick. These members would be the early adapters, the ones who were there to support him right away no matter the consequences. Kapernick may never have thought his act during the anthem would begin to stretch towards other sports including the WNBA and even high school teams. At the end of his season he opts out of his contract for a better situation but no offers come. By the start of the next season more players protest and Kaepernick has yet to be signed even after reaching out to all 32 teams.
Last week I deleted my twitter and facebook account. I did it out of impulse because I never really used facebook at all I turned notifications off and hadn't updated my account it almost a year. Twitter I hardly used but would sometimes post a picture on there maybe once a month or every two months. Because I deleted my twitter account I was not expecting to still see pictures that I had tweeted in the past on google when I searched my name. When you type in my name the first link to it is my twitter account which also displays my bio including where I go to school and the city im from. However, once you click on the link it says sorry page not found. Why have the link still there in the first place? This is really strange to me because why have the top link for something if it doesn't even exist anymore? When you scroll down more my facebook page shows up and when you click it, it says page not found. Linked in links then pop up including my mothers. My youtube account com...
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