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  1. May 10, 2024 · Colin Kaepernick, American gridiron football player and social activist who had success as a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers (2011–16) of the NFL but was better known for kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest racial injustice and police brutality against African Americans.

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  2. 5 days ago · Kaepernick, who is biracial, began sitting on the bench and subsequently kneeling during the playing of the national anthem in the 2016 preseason to protest what he called “the injustices that ...

  3. 1 day ago · We rate claims that NFL refs ejected players for kneeling during the anthem False. ... “Colin Kaepernick was fired from his new high school coaching job after just one season” because "the ...

  4. 1 day ago · Colin Kaepernick’s longtime girlfriend, Nessa Diab, shares supportive post about his 2017 kneeling. (Photo: @nessnitty/Instagram) Diab screenshot the post from X and added the hashtags # ...

  5. By Barry Wilner The Associated Press. Colin Kaepernick was a second-round draft pick in 2011. The next year he led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. By 2016, he had begun kneeling on...

  6. 5 days ago · In August, after the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, Goodell said that he wished the NFL had listened earlier to Kaepernick's reasons for kneeling. Kaepernick supports the abolition of police and prisons.

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  8. 5 days ago · The following year, as the number of players kneeling — and the backlash to them — grew, ... "The same way we want respect when Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, we want to give respect to people ...

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