Hanging Kaepernick in effigy only reinforces the reason he began protesting.
One California resident has shown their apparently ongoing disagreement with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest extrajudicial killings of black Americans by ...Twitter user “jo” posted photos on Tuesday of a black Nissan she saw driving in San Jose, Calif. with a stuffed Kaepernick doll hanging from a chain, dangling from the underside of the vehicle.
Car with a lynched Colin Kaepernick Doll in San Jose, CA. And they swear Bay Area is free of hate pic.twitter.com/agIfxsHiBdEven if he still was playing for the Niners, and still taking a knee during the pre-game playing of the national anthem, this behavior is a disproportionate response, and seeks to reinforce Kaepernick’s decision to protest racial injustice.After the abolition of slavery, lynching was used as a tool to try to control and scare black Americans .
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