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Al Sharpton -- Kaepernick Has Something In Common with Jackie Robinson (VIDEO)

Al Sharpton says Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem protest reminds him of Jackie Robinson -- because the MLB legend also said he refused to stand for the Star Spangled Banner.

It's true ... As Shaprton pointed out in NYC yesterday, Robinson made his feelings clear in his 1972 autobiography, "I Never Had It Made."

"As I write this twenty years [after my MLB debut], I cannot stand and sing the anthem" Robinson wrote ... "I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world.