Colin Kaepernick Covers Time Magazine

San Fransisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick makes the cover of Time Magazine for taking a knee during the National Anthem to bring awareness to police brutality against Black people...

TIME’s new cover: The perilous fight. How national anthem protests led by Colin Kaepernick are fueling a debate. TIME photo-illustration. Photograph by Michael Zagaris—Getty Images; animation by @brobeldesign

A video posted by TIME (@time) on Sep 22, 2016 at 7:17am PDT

Meanwhile his counterpart, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, releases a statement on Instagram saying Black people need to 'police themselves' and 'do better as a race.'