Lane said he mulled all week over Kaepernick’s words about injustice toward people of color and decided to support him. Kaepernick’s protest is getting people to think, and talk, and act, rather than merely rant and pontificate and accuse (though there’s still plenty of that).
It feels like the Colin Kaepernick saga is advancing, or at least inching, beyond the knee-jerk, polarizing, he’s-an-idiot/no-he’s-not, you’re-an-idiot rhetoric that has marked not just this story, but so much of our political discourse these days.
And that’s a good thing. And in a way, vindication of Kaepernick’s intent in the first place.