A decade after Colin Kaepernick took a knee that led to his exile, the ripple effects continue

Nothing regarding Colin Kaepernick, the football player, changed on that warm Southern California night a decade ago.

Key points

• And to be honest, nothing changed regarding Colin Kaepernick, the 28-year-old man, that night either.
• If anything, the moment the San Francisco 49ers star decided to take a knee during the national anthem before a preseason game on Sept.
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• Not the improvisational skills that created him one of the NFL's most electrifying, if at times erratic, quarterbacks.

Not his speed. Not his arm strength. Not the improvisational skills that created him one of the NFL's most electrifying, if at times erratic, quarterbacks.

If anything, the moment the San Francisco 49ers star decided to take a knee during the national anthem before a preseason game on Sept. 1, 2016, to bring attention to a series of social problems he cares deeply concerning – from racial injustice to minority oppression to police brutality – only made public to the world at substantial who Kaepernick always believed himself to be.

"It wasn't a sudden act, " he wrote in an official note this spring announcing his memoir, "The Perilous Fight, " a title borrowed from a passage of the particularly song to which his name will forever be linked.

In short, a decade after Colin Kaepernick took a knee that led to his is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.