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Nardos Haile

Why Colin Kaepernick is still shut out

Colin Kaepernick is back — well sort of. The former 49ers quarterback-turned-overnight activist despised by Middle America and just about every racist in the county for braving and quietly exercising his First Amendment right to free speech by kneeling for racial justice during "The National Anthem" in 2016, has found his way back into the spotlight.

In a newly released letter by Kaepernick's friend rapper J.Cole on Instagram, Kaepernick asked the struggling NY Jets if he could join the team's training session this season. So it is possible for racist white America's least favorable athlete to find his way back to the game after six years absent from pro football and a grievance lawsuit that alleged the NFL was colluding against him that he settled?

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