To our friends from across the pond who may not be familiar with issue...

Colin Kaepernick is an NFL quarterback who last year made headlines by choosing to kneel during the playing of the national anthem as his way of silently protest against the racial violence and injustices in America today. Colin is black, by the way. Anyway... this obviously got lots of headlines, and even a few other players across the league decided to join Colin as a sign of solidarity.

Fast forward to today, and Colin is basically out of the NFL. None of the 32 teams see fit to include him in their roster, regardless of the fact that he's an extremely talented QB. Adding salt to the wound, right now there's more than a handful of teams that are struggling at the quarterback position, and would benefit greatly by having Colin on their team. But obviously they'd rather flounder with some scrubs at QB, than give Colin a shot.

Pick whatever reason you like. Billionaire team owners afraid the fans will stop going to their stadiums...... racist team owners who don't like some upstart young player upsetting the apple cart that way..... whatever you feel. Personally I think it's totally hypocritical of the NFL to lock out a guy like that because of his beliefs.

As with other social causes, Colin was the pioneer in a way. The sacrificial goat. Now other guys may feel free to do the same and, what are they going to do..... kick all of them out of the league? I'm sorry, but if someone truly feels like there's a lot wrong in racial America today and that's the way they choose to express themselves, I can think of a lot worse things they could be doing.