Good story on Colin Kaepernick and a nice reminder that racial issues isn’t just a GOP=bad, Dems=good equation.
deadspin.com/...
Kaepernick’s message has never been politically partisan. Back when the anthem protests first blew up, he noted that while Trump is “openly racist,” it was Clinton who “called black teens or black kids super predators.”
Kaepernick has always pointed out that racism is institutional in America.
Kaepernick is protesting deep-seated institutional rot, of which the policies of a specific party or candidate are a symptom as much as a cause. Systemic racism is not entirely apolitical, but it’s not something that’s going to be voted away in November. And even given that one candidate is clearly better than the other, Kaepernick himself noted back in August that “a lot of those things are hard to change and there’s a lot of those things that [Barack Obama] doesn’t necessarily have complete control over.”
Hopefully after Clinton wins, we remember that racism is still a problem and not just a political football we used against Trump.