Colin Kaepernick’s publishing company is putting out a collection of 30 essays over the next four weeks about abolition, policing and prisons.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback envisioned and curated this collection following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.Abolition For the People: The Movement For A Future Without Policing & Prisons.In his introduction, Kaepernick writes the killings of Floyd and Taylor “forced our nation to grapple with not only the devastation of police terrorism, but also the institutions that constitute, enhance, and expand the carceral state.
Some of the pieces are written by political prisoners and family members of those who faced police violence and incarceration. Other essays are by organizers, movement leaders and scholars. “Colin gathered respected leaders on abolition to build and support his stance on a society without police,” said Jermaine Hall, director of the Medium editorial group, an online publishing platform. “He delivered a comprehensive body of work to amplify a national conversation.”
In 2013, Kaepernick led the 49ers to the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Baltimore Ravens. He began to kneel during the national anthem in 2016 to protest racism and police brutality. Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since that season and settled his collusion grievance with the league.
Awesome. BlackLivesMatter
I wonder if these essays touch on his affluent upbringing by his White parents.
This sounds so interesting! A hack athlete becomes a hack SJW and hack political commentator and activist writer reported by a hack sports newscaster....intersectional hackness
Ahem not sports related now is it , stick to athletes and sports,
Where were these in March when no one had toilet paper?
no thanks guy
Are any of them about how to go 3-16 in your last 2 seasons?
Who cares?
Oh I can’t wait
Hope no one reads it and his company goes bust.
Here’s a quarter.
Someone get the straight jacket
Who?