Why Do I Care so Much About What Happens to Colin Kaepernick?

Kitanya Harrison
6 min readMay 31, 2018

For a while, I had trouble putting my finger on exactly why the Colin Kaepernick situation enrages me as much as it does. So much worse has happened and will continue to happen than a quarterback not making an NFL roster. There have been so many outrageous police killings — too many to keep track of, and the names of many of the victims elude me. In the face of video evidence…

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Kitanya Harrison

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