Colin Kaepernick “GQ’s Citizen of the Year” Speaks Out About “Meek Mill” Sentence

Colin Kaepernick was alone in his early protests which began as silent protests to show support for people of color who are being oppressed in the United States, and to take a stand against police brutality.   In an Exclusive with GQ magazine who names him as their Citizen Of The Year  the magazine pays tribute to his efforts and compares him to other great sports activists “He’s been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL—all because he took a knee to protest police brutality. But Colin Kaepernick’s determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson—athletes who risked everything to make a difference”.

He indeed has risked alot. He continues to give his thoughts on the (in) justice in the U.S.A in a post showing support for rapper Meek Mill who was recently sentenced to 2- 4 years on a violation. According to CNN, Meek Mill was arrested for popping wheelies on his dirt bike and for  getting into a fight earlier this year, and now the rapper could spend two to four years in state prison because those arrests violated his probation from a 2008 gun and drug case.

Roughly 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the United States, an increase of 1.9 million since 1972. America professes to be the land of the free, yet it has the world’s largest prison population – with one-quarter of the globes prisoners, and just 5% of the total population. Disproportionately America’s prisons are filled with Black bodies. This criminal (in)justice system, ripe with racial discrimination, stigmatizes, profiles, and targets young Black men for arrest at a young age, having its roots in their hyper-policed neighborhoods that they are raised in, and sadly extending into what should be a safe space—the classroom, via the school to prison pipeline. Meek Mill is a victim of this systemic oppression. Yes, there needs to be action surrounding sentencing reform, but there needs to also be action taken around abolishing the racialized norms of injustice that can lead to Meek Mill serving 2-4 years in prison for non-violent parole violations, and Brock Turner only serving 3 months in prison for three felony counts of sexual assault. ?: @karlfergusonjr

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