{"id":877276,"date":"2026-09-02T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877276\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:48:13","slug":"colin-kaepernick-calls-out-disingenuous-nfl-10-years-after-taking-knee-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877276\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick calls out \u2018disingenuous\u2019 NFL 10 years after taking knee in protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles \u2013 Ten years after he first took a knee to protest police brutality in the United States, Colin Kaepernick said he is still being blackballed by the NFL and no longer watches the \u201cdisingenuous\u201d league.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare interview, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback said the NFL\u2019s statements condemning racial injustice after the 2020 death of George Floyd had been \u201claughable,\u201d and that the league has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna support an organization that one, is actively blackballing me, but two, has targeted my brothers who have been protesting as part of this as well,\u201d Kaepernick said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles \u2013 Ten years after he first took a knee to protest police brutality in the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,22024,363377,593,2647,2966,1262,55044,85,1055],"class_list":["post-877276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-george-floyd","tag-nfl","tag-protest","tag-racism","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-social-justice","tag-sports","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}