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04/07 08:01 CDT Colin Kaepernick to publish memoir 'The Perilous Fight' in
September
Colin Kaepernick to publish memoir 'The Perilous Fight' in September
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --- A decade after he first took a knee during the national
anthem, Colin Kaepernick will be publishing his life story.
The activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback has completed "The
Perilous Fight," to come out Sept. 15 through the Hachette Book Group imprint
Legacy Lit. His memoir will come out almost exactly 10 years after he knelt
before a preseason game, a protest against police violence and racial
inequality that was emulated by some players and criticized by politicians,
team owners and fans, some of whom booed him and burned his jersey.
Kaepernick, who has not played in the NFL since 2016, said in a statement that
he wanted to offer context for what led to his taking a knee. Before that, he
had remained seated during the anthem.
"People saw the moment. But they didn't see the years that made it possible:
the questions about who I was; the injustices I could no longer ignore; the
voices of those who came before me that I carried into that stadium,"
Kaepernick said in a statement released Tuesday. "That journey, from a Black
kid navigating an identity the world didn't always make space for, to an
athlete who realized the game was bigger than football, shaped everything. When
I took a knee, it wasn't a sudden act."
Legacy Lit is calling the book "equal parts memoir and manifesto," tracing "the
off-the-field battles that turned a single act of protest into a movement that
changed American sports and culture forever."
Kaepernick, 38, played six years for the 49ers and helped lead them to an
appearance in the Super Bowl in 2013. Baltimore won the game 34-31.
Kaepernick has spoken out often on social issues, launched his own publishing
imprint and co-written the picture story "We Are Free, You & Me" and the
graphic novel "Change the Game."
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