San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is back in the news after yet another politically charged statement. In a talk with the Miami media this week, a Cuban reporter called out the National Anthem-protesting player for wearing a T-shirt honoring the brutal communist dictator Fidel Castro. Kaepernick, who has condemned America as systemically racist and thus unworthy of his respect, defended his praise of Castro, who ruled Cuba with an iron fist and destroyed lives and families to maintain his oppressive regime.
Kaepernick’s 49ers, who have gone 0 and 5 since he took the reins (to be fair, they only managed one win before he started), are playing the Miami Dolphins this week, giving the Miami media a chance to ask the non-voting quarterback a few questions on Wednesday. One question that resulted in a particularly tense exchange came from a Miami Herald reporter, who the Palm Beach Post notes comes “from a family of Cuban exiles.”
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