More than two years after National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick launched his ill-conceived, poorly executed sideline protest, some of his former colleagues are finally rehabilitating his muddled message into something that might result in real change.
While social media was fueling the flames of a culture war skirmish between a giant shoe company and a small-minded Kenner mayor Tuesday (Sept. 11), New Orleans Saints players Demario Davis and Benjamin Watson were bringing NFL executives and others into a discussion about the injustices in the city's money-bail court system.
Part of a new independent nonprofit organization called of the Players Coalition, Davis and Watson say they want to bring awareness to social justice and racial equality issues all across the country.