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Does Anyone Owe Colin Kaepernick An Apology?
That depends on a few things: What did you think and do then, what do you think and do now, and what has changed in the meantime.
The internet is this great paradox where everything is recorded forever and also immediately forgotten about, until it isn’t. Short attention spans meeting instant access to the full depth and breadth of human knowledge in the palm of our hands is an enigma most folks haven’t reconciled yet. The old saying of “everything old is new again” gets a technological edge to it as the trending world spins round and around.
So we should have known with the current events of social unrest, righteous demands for justice about police misconduct, daily viral videos of police brutality, and the seemingly snail crawl of justice in cases like Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, that old related controversies would arise. The additional layer of Covid-19 stripping away outlets and release valves like simply going out, group activities, and sports, just makes it worse. Especially sports, which in recent years has taken on a role as cultural laboratory where folks can cross all sorts of streams like social issues, media coverage, and politics just to see what happens without the pesky permanence of lawmaking or, theoretically, the…
