Vilified to vindicated, what next for Colin Kaepernick?


  • World
  • Friday, 19 Jun 2020

Colin Kaepernick looks to pass during his NFL workout held at Charles R Drew high school in Riverdale, Georgia. - Four years after launching the protest movement that effectively ended his career, the verdict is in. Colin Kaepernick took a knee on the right side of history. From being widely vilified for kneeling during the US national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback now stands vindicated. (Photo by Carmen Mandato / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP): Four years after launching the protest movement that effectively ended his career, the verdict is in: Colin Kaepernick took a knee on the right side of history.

From being widely vilified for kneeling during the US national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback now stands vindicated.

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