Snap, snap, snap: Not just one, but three breaking stories about Colin Kaepernick.
1.) Ultimate Fighting Championship star Jorge Masvidal condemned Kaepernick for wearing a shirt featuring Fidel Castro back in 2016. "Know ur history and facts cowards like this fool should be sent to live in Cuba see what they say after a day there," Masvidal wrote on social media.
At the time he wore the shirt, Kaepernick spoke to Sports Illustrated about why he did so. "I agree with the investment in education," he said. "I also agree with the investment in free universal health care as well as the involvement in helping end apartheid in South Africa. . . . I would hope that everybody agrees those things are good things. And trying to push the false narrative that I was a supporter of the oppressive things that he did is just not true."
2.) As the NFL announced plans to play the Black National Anthem, some pointed to the hypocrisy of doing so while the league at the same time has not found room for Kaepernick on any of the rosters. "The NFL is, "completely ignoring that Colin Kaepernick, the reason for all of this, is still without an NFL home," wrote Stephen A. Crockett Jr. in The Root, an African-American online magazine.
3.) Plans were announced for a children's book to be published about Kaepernick's growing up. or relating to his growing up. The book, "I Color Myself Different," draws its name from a childhood experience in which Kaepernick was given an assignment in Kindergarten to draw a picture of his family. Kaepernick used a yellow crayon to draw the rest of his family but colored himself brown. (Kaepernick was an adopted child.)
The book is to be published by Scholastic in April. It is part of a multi-book deal Kap has with the Scholastic.
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