Colin Kaepernick to receive Muhammad Ali Award for fighting 'racial injustice'

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will receive the Muhammad Ali Center’s Humanitarian of the Year Award later this year.

The center told Reuters that it selected Kaepernick for his advocacy "against racial injustice" and support for underserved communities through his Know Your Rights Camp and other philanthropic efforts .

Lonnie Ali, Muhammad’s late wife and co-founder of the center, added: "Colin has used his platform to advocate for equality, human dignity, and social change, even when doing so came at significant personal and professional cost." STOP COMPARING JAXSON DART'S NEW YORK TRUMP RALLY SPEECH TO COLIN KAEPERNICK'S ACTIVISM Now, to reality.

Kaepernick is hardly worthy of an award bearing Muhammad Ali’s name.

Ali risked his freedom and sacrificed the prime of his boxing career when he refused induction into the military during the Vietnam War.

He was stripped of his heavyweight title, barred from boxing for more than three years and convicted of draft evasion.

Ali became a martyr.

He paid a real price.

Kaepernick did neither.

The popular narrative that Kaepernick sacrificed a thriving NFL career to stand up for marginalized communities is misleading.

He had already been benched for Blaine Gabbert.

In his final two seasons, he posted QBRs of 43.7 and 49.2.

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NATIONAL ANTHEM IS A PROBLEM FOR THE NBA He had become unplayable.