Colin Kaepernick currently can’t find a single team willing to suit him up in an NFL jersey. However, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is apparently willing to accept a jersey from him. Harry Edwards, a sociologist and activist at UC Berkeley who has encouraged black athletes to speak out politically for years, spoke to the Smithsonian about featuring Kaepernick after his anthem protest last year. Edwards then gave several items of

Kaepernick’s to the museum curators with the expectation that they will get displayed sooner rather than later. “I said, ‘Don’t wait 50 years to try to get some memorabilia and so forth on Kaepernick,’ ” Edwards told USA TODAY Sports. “ ‘Let me give you a game jersey, some shoes, a picture … And it should be put right there alongside Muhammad Ali. He’s this generation’s Ali.’ READ MORE


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