America’s most prominent political figure this fall, non-Trump/Clinton division, has probably been Colin Kaepernick. The 49ers quarterback began protesting police brutality as football season got underway by sitting during the pregame playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” an act that became the subject of great national debate. (He’s since changed his anthem posture from sitting to kneeling, a gesture that’s meant to indicate that his protest is not meant as an act of disrespect toward members of the military.) Naturally, reporters were curious about Kaepernick’s thoughts about Tuesday’s results, but it turns out he didn’t vote:
“I’ve been very disconnected from the systematic oppression as a whole,” Kaepernick said. “So, for me, it’s another face that’s going to be the face of that system of oppression.
“And to me, it didn’t really matter who went in there. The system still remains intact that oppresses people of color.”
This shouldn’t entirely come as a surprise given that Kaepernick has previously said that a normal person would have been put in prison for mishandling classified information in the way that Hillary Clinton did. Still, couldn’t he at least have written in, like, Noam Chomsky?
