4th Week of AtAP
This week I did my weekly update to help me get to my 6,000 word goal. As I looked for current events regarding the BLM movement and sports, I could not find anything super significant. So, I decided to reflect on the Colin Kaepernick situation and how times have changed from then to today. I then went into describing his situation and talked about how he was “before his time” as far as using his platform to silently protest against police brutality. I talked about how this affected his career and how maybe he would have had a different future if he had done the same thing in 2020. I know that kneeling is a very sensitive subject and I wanted to touch briefly on how it is important to do your research and make your own opinion. Overall I thought this would be a cool spin on my website because now when there is not a big new current event story, I can go back and reflect on situations like the one with Colin Kaepernick and how maybe things would have turned differently if this took plac...