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    In the End, the NFL Proved Colin Kaepernick Right

    In pronouncing the outspoken quarterback’s career dead, the league underscored its own unwillingness to let players exercise their own power.
    by Jemele Hill Dec 12, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Al Bello / Getty

    When NFL commissioner Roger Goodell declared yesterday that the league had “moved on” from embattled quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the finality of Goodell’s tone answered the question about whether Kaepernick would ever play professional football again.

    Kaepernick became persona non grata in the National Football League after the 2016 season, during which he protested police violence against African-Americans by kneeling during the national anthem. The league then spent more than two years trying to make him go away, but seemed to relent by scheduling a workout for him

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