This Colin Kaepernick illustration by Khalid Albaih, a Romania-born Sudanese artist, has been going viral. It gets right to the point connecting the dots between the past and the present. In an interview, Albeit said:
“The minute I saw (Kaepernick kneeling), it just reminded me of the image of (John) Carlos and (Tommie) Smith with their fists up in the ’68 Olympics. It was the ‘black fist’ of our time, I had to make that connection. Kaepernick’s protest is gaining support while he still out of a job. Kaepernick’s protest is gaining support while he’s still out of a job. People just wanted (black athletes) to do their sports, clap at them and leave. They don’t want them to do anything serious, to be anything but that sports person.”
Source: CNN: ‘The black fist of our time’: The story behind a viral Colin Kaepernick cartoon
