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'You enslaved our ancestors,' the NFL free agent writes in a Twitter message posted Saturday
Happy Fourth of July? Not for free agent NFLquarterback Colin Kaepernick.
In a Twitter message Saturday, the former San Francisco 49ers player denounced the nation's 244th birthday as a “celebration of white supremacy.”
Along with a video showing images of the Ku Klux Klan, police brutality, slavery and lynchings, Kaepernick wrote: “Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence’, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all.”
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Kaepernick denounces 4th of July as ‘celebration of white supremacy’
'You enslaved our ancestors,' the NFL free agent writes in a Twitter message posted Saturday
Happy Fourth of July? Not for free agent NFLquarterback Colin Kaepernick.
In a Twitter message Saturday, the former San Francisco 49ers player denounced the nation's 244th birthday as a “celebration of white supremacy.”
Along with a video showing images of the Ku Klux Klan, police brutality, slavery and lynchings, Kaepernick wrote: “Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence’, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all.”
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Kaepernick denounces 4th of July as ‘celebration of white supremacy’