In August 2016, Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers American Football Team, is photographed in the nation's highest league NFL while sitting on the bench while playing the US national anthem. His teammates stand up.
After the match, he tells reporters that the gesture is "a protest against injustice in America".
In September of that year, he leans on a knee in opposition to racism. The guest spread among footballers, upset President Donald Trump and the following season Kaepernick did not play for the 49ers anymore. He sued the league because he thought it counteracted him and prevented him from playing, but made up for good in 2019. He still doesn't play for any team in the NFL.
"Sport and resistance"Now his life will be a TV series, directed by Ava DuVernay, who among other things is behind When they see us. The series, in six parts, is called Colin in black & white and depicts Kaepernick's growing up as an adoptive child to white parents.
- All too often black people's stories are portrayed through a white lens, he tells Variety.
- Colin's story says so much about identity, sport and resistance, Ava DuVernay tells the same newspaper.