This isn’t surprising.
Racists and white supremacists have to do whatever they can to try to keep minorities down. They use social media as one venue to do that.
It is easy for them because they can hate from the comfort of their homes and hide behind their computers. Kaepernick had a clear reason for doing the GQ interview and it was because people have tried to change the narrative on them.
Approximately 90 men are currently employed as quarterbacks in the NFL, as either starters or reserves, and Colin Kaepernick is better—indisputably, undeniably, flat-out better—than at least 70 of them. He is still, to this day, one of the most gifted quarterbacks on earth. And yet he has been locked out of the game he loves—blackballed—because of one simple gesture: He knelt during the playing of our national anthem.
And he did it for a clear reason, one that has been lost in the yearlong storm that followed. He did it to protest systemic oppression and, more specifically, as he said repeatedly at the time, police brutality toward black people.
Flip the page to see the racist comments made and understand this is why we protest.