In what the San Francisco Chronicle is celebrating as a “surprise appearance” on Thursday, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick dropped in on the so-called “Unthanksgiving Day” festival put on by the Alcatraz Indigenous People’s group to deliver a message of “resistance.”
The festival, which has been held since 1975 in commemoration of the occupation of Alcatraz by 89 activists in 1969-71, is designed to protest America’s mistreatment of Native Americans. In his comments at the festival, Kaepernick said his fight for what he has described as the systemic oppression of “black people and people of color” in America and the “Unthanksgiving” activists’ cause is all a part of the same “resistance.”
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