{"id":49678,"date":"2016-10-30T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49678"},"modified":"2016-10-30T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:23:05","slug":"king-colin-kaepernicks-i-know-my-rights-camp-cements-his-status-as-a-cultural-superhero-in-the-black-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49678","title":{"rendered":"KING: Colin Kaepernick\u2019s \u2018I Know My Rights Camp\u2019 cements his status as a cultural superhero in the black community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/king-kaepernick-camp-cements-status-black-community-article-1.2850326\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>KING: Colin Kaepernick\u2019s \u2018I Know My Rights Camp\u2019 cements his status as a cultural superhero in the black community<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunKing\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Shaun King<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/king-kaepernick-camp-cements-status-black-community-article-1.2850326\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2850361.1477777367!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_1200\/article-kaepernick-1029.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Daily News columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunKing\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun King<\/a>, his son, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> pose for picture after Kaepernick&#8217;s camp. (Shaun King\/<em>New York Daily News<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8220;Dad. Does Colin still have a game on Sunday?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The question was a smart one for any football fan to ask &#8211; particularly one who&#8217;s rooting hard for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_49ers\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was 12:49 a.m. in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> late Friday night. My 10- year-old son, EZ, and I, made the trek there from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> and we were dragging. For our bodies it felt like 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>We were invited by Kaepernick to attend a camp on Saturday morning and I had just gotten a text from Colin.<\/p>\n<p>It read, \u201cHey Shaun. I just wanted to check and make sure you and your son made it safe my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I replied, \u201cThanks man. Just now checking in at the hotel. We took a late flight. See you soon bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And his reply was what shocked my son and I both&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/king-kaepernick-camp-cements-status-black-community-article-1.2850326\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KING: Colin Kaepernick\u2019s \u2018I Know My Rights Camp\u2019 cements his status as a cultural superhero in the black community The New York Daily News 2016-10-29 Shaun King Daily News columnist Shaun King, his son, and Colin Kaepernick pose for picture after Kaepernick&#8217;s camp. (Shaun King\/New York Daily News) &#8220;Dad. Does Colin still have a game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,20],"tags":[24878,1463,20782,18849],"class_list":["post-49678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-shaun-king","tag-the-new-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49678","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=49678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49679,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49678\/revisions\/49679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}