Kaepernick says NFL 'blackballing me' decade after protest
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Ten years after he first took a knee to protest US police brutality, Colin Kaepernick said he is still being blackballed by the NFL and no longer watches the "disingenuous" league.The idea that the league should have listened to protesting players "is so laughable in my mind, and so disingenuous," Kaepernick told NBC. "We had been trying to address the issue that the NFL created with blackballing me for years.
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