Posts Tagged ‘Colin Kaepernick’
Michael Vick is wrong: A haircut won’t help Colin Kaepernick, or any black man
Michael Vick, who knows well the sting of being an NFL outcast, believes Colin Kaepernick must do little more than cut off his Afro in order to return to the ranks of active NFL quarterbacks. Vick said as much during a Monday appearance on Fox Sports 1’s “Speak for Yourself,” surmising that the former San…

Colin Kaepernick and the truth about race in sports
Race stands at the intersection of media and sports in America. If that truth has ever been in question, the events of the last week should erase all doubt. First, we learned that a modern-day iteration of the Jim Crow-era radio show, “Amos ‘n Andy,” had been revived in Philadelphia. A white radio producer at…
