On Colin Kaepernick
In honor of transracial adopted people whose voices are not properly heard. For those who lived silenced and took their lives due to the complexities of race, gratitude, and identity. Your legacy remains. Your deaths were not in vain.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
Colin Kaepernick is a person who beat the odds. It is not his football career that causes me to say this. It is merely him being alive and thriving.
Once, Colin Kaepernick was one of the only African American quarterbacks in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the NFL. He played in the Super Bowl. In 2016, he knelt for the National Anthem to honor Americans who love this country but are not living in a land of the free. Effectively, he was and remains blackballed from the NFL, and became a fixture of racial and political controversy.
Colin Kaepernick is African American. He was adopted and raised by a White American couple. Many may not realize that transracial adoption is actually itself a politically charged way of life. Being adopted period, race notwithstanding, increases a person’s risk for death by suicide by four times. It increases a person’s ACE score. It increases risk of…
