https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn Controversial Activism en-us 2021-02-08 18:56:52 UTC 2023-02-10 18:43:15 UTC hello@padlet.com abbydarlingus https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178812457 *"Kaepernick has stayed out of the spotlight, friends said, because he wants the conversation to be not about him, but about the issues he has raised"]]> 2021-02-08 19:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178812457 abbydarlingus https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178814304 *His self funded campaign, The Know Your Rights Camp works "to raise awareness on higher education, self empowerment, and instructions on how to properly interact with law enforcement in various scenarios"]]> 2021-02-08 19:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178814304 abbydarlingus https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178815474 * "In 2018, he completed his Million Dollar Pledge, where he personally donated one million dollars to thirty-seven different organizations fighting for justice"

*"He has done previous work with Camp Taylor, an organization helping children with congenital heart defects after being adopted by parents who lost two children due to heart defects"]]> 2021-02-08 19:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178815474 abbydarlingus https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178817537 *Social Media
*Monetary Support
*Shocking the media

]]> 2021-02-08 19:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178817537 abbydarlingus https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178819136 *"Almost immediately, many of the complex real-world issues of the times — police violence, presidential politics and the foment of racial clashes that continue to boil over in places like Charlottesville, Va. — all flushed through the filter of Kaepernick’s gesture."

*"With the N.F.L. season beginning in earnest this weekend, Kaepernick finds himself out of the league, either exiled or washed up, depending on the perspective"

*"In Kaepernick’s absence, other players will kneel. Demonstrators will protest. Some will boycott. His jersey will be seen, more as a political statement than a sporting allegiance, as the game goes on without him."

*"What Kaepernick did was disrupt one of our most treasured sports. Whether you agree with his tactics or not is one type of conversation. The larger conversation is what he is protesting about."]]> 2021-02-08 19:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178819136 abbydarlingus https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178825629 "Colin Kaepernick is a professional NFL Super Bowl quarterback who fights oppression globally. Originally fully funded by Kaepernick, he founded the global Know Your Rights Camps to advance the liberation of Black and Brown people through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders."

"Colin Kaepernick may forever be known as the quarterback who knelt for the national anthem before N.F.L. games in 2016 as a protest against social injustice"- New York Times]]> 2021-02-08 19:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/abbydarlingus/u5n0xsuqrrduw0kn/wish/1178825629