{"id":49573,"date":"2016-10-22T22:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49573"},"modified":"2016-10-26T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:37:11","slug":"where-did-colin-kaepernick-get-start-as-an-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49573","title":{"rendered":"Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/49ers\/2016\/09\/29\/where-did-colin-kaepernick-get-start-activist\/91232508\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY<\/a><br \/>\n2016-09-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshlpeter11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Josh Peter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They remember the conservative haircut he wore at <a href=\"http:\/\/jhphs-turlockusd-ca.schoolloop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Pitman High School<\/a>, and now they see the Afro and cornrows. They remember his studious and soft-spoken ways from a decade ago, and now they see him refusing to stand for the national anthem and agitating for social change.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turlock,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Turlock, Calif.<\/a>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> was raised, many residents have asked some version of the same question: What in the heck happened to our hometown hero?<\/p>\n<p>But those who knew Kaepernick at the University of Nevada at Reno, where attended from 2006-10 and was a star quarterback before getting drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_49ers\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> in 2011, say they\u2019re not at all confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who wants to characterize this as some new black awareness on his behalf just simply doesn\u2019t know him or didn\u2019t do the diligence,\u2019\u2019 Reg Stewart, director of the Center for Student Cultural Diversity at Nevada-Reno when Kaepernick was in school, told USA TODAY Sports. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I turned on the TV and was like, \u2018Wow, where did this come from?\u2019 I was like, \u2018You know what, he has been thinking about these issues for at least the time I\u2019ve known him.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;At the black student union meetings at Nevada-Reno, Kaepernick was outspoken about issues such as attracting more African Americans to the campus, Bart-Plange said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would let us know, we\u2019ve got to get everybody unified,\u201d Bart-Plange said. \u201cThe only way we\u2019re going to get better is together, that\u2019s how we\u2019re stronger, power in numbers, educating each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaepernick\u2019s increasing identification as African American began as soon as he arrived at Reno, according to Stewart. African Americans made up about 4% of the student body, but Stewart suggested the university&#8217;s cultural diversity center gave Kaepernick an outlet to find his identity as an African American&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/49ers\/2016\/09\/29\/where-did-colin-kaepernick-get-start-activist\/91232508\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist? USA TODAY 2016-09-30 Josh Peter They remember the conservative haircut he wore at John Pitman High School, and now they see the Afro and cornrows. They remember his studious and soft-spoken ways from a decade ago, and now they see him refusing to stand for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,23674,20],"tags":[24878,25281,25279,25280,25277,25278,24879,7222,2346,25282],"class_list":["post-49573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-dean-bart-plange","tag-deandre-boughton","tag-jeremy-hibbs","tag-josh-peter","tag-reg-stewart","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-usa-today","tag-zack-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49575,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49573\/revisions\/49575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}