It’s as if Colin Kaepernick lighted a small, justified campfire, and the park rangers showed up with gasoline.
Kaepernick’s protest keeps passing tests.
His critics keep failing. They keep adding boughs of ignorance and hate and outlandish commentary that serve only to make the flame climb higher and burn brighter.
Kaepernick vaulted into national headlines when reporters noticed that he did not stand for a national anthem in the 49ers' third preseason game in protest of what he considers unpunished police brutality aimed at blacks in America.
The test of sincerity of the protest lies in its innocuous origin; Kaepernick, out of uniform, sat through two national anthems before anyone noticed, and then almost no one took note when, wearing a uniform, he sat through a third.