Project RACE and Nike

2020-09-29T01:29:04+00:00September 10th, 2018|

Project RACE and Nike I was in Turlock, California today. It’s where Colin Kaepernick grew up—a multiracial boy adopted by white parents in a city where African American comprise less than 2% of the population. I saw one black person there today in a sea of white faces. I can only imagine that life there was challenging for him. Yet he played football on teams with predominately white players. He made friends and had family; he survived. And he always stood up for what he believed in. Colin Kaepernick did [...]