This is a few days old, but I’ll post it anyway. Just after the policeman who shot Philando Castille was found not guilty on June 16, Colin Kaepernick posted the following tweet:
A system that perpetually condones the killing of people, without consequence, doesn’t need to be revised, it needs to be dismantled! pic.twitter.com/BVVPVZIQyD
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) June 16, 2017
I understand Kaepernick’s anger — the killing of Castille was tragic and disturbing. But the comparison of police officers to slave patrollers is as offensive as the socks Kaepernick wore last year that depicted policemen as pigs.