Colin Kaepernick: Racism In America

To deny the existence of racism in America is cowardice. America needs to address racism in this country. Colin Kaepernick is doing just that. Kaepernick did what many hero’s do; risk everything while preserving and sticking with what he believed in, even if it resulted in him getting blackballed in the NFL. Colin Kaepernick is an example of a modern-day hero, through risking everything, starting the conversation, and not backing down.

Colin Kaepernick risked his entire career through taking a knee during the National Anthem over a year ago. In an article titled, Kaepernick is asking for justice, not peace, author Bomani Jones states that Kaepernick “didn’t take his stand in a crowd surrounded by thousands. He sat alone, wearing a red, white, and blue shield on his jersey”. Kaepernick risked everything, alone, with no one beside him, and showed just how much he was willing to risk to stand for what he believed in.
America needs to begin the conversation and start talking about racism, as this is something that people face everyday. Kaepernick used his largely viewed platform, and challenged all of America to look at the issue at hand. As Jones says; “The whole point of a stand is to put them on display, to ask the world to confront and examine their hypocrisies and ask why they’re on one side and not the other”. This supports the fact that Kaepernick’s protest is starting the much needed conversation. Now, after all the press coverage and media outrage regarding his protest, whenever somebody hears the national anthem, Kaepernick and race come to