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10 years after taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick is still waging a 'Perilous Fight' - NPR
The former 49ers quarterback created an uproar in 2016 when took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality. In <em>The Perilous Fight</em> he explains why he still wants to play football.
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14 Sep 2026 · 1 min read
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was adopted as a baby into a white family, in a town that was almost entirely white. He was 8 when a group of older boys called him the n-word and tried to tie…