Colin Kaepernick is the Hero We’ve Got

Kitanya Harrison
12 min readDec 27, 2018

“The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.” ­– Johann Kaspar Lavater

Like many writers, I’ve spent the last few weeks of 2018 thinking about the work I produced during the year. The pieces I struggled with the most are the ones I’m the proudest of. There…

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Kitanya Harrison

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