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He Never Stopped

"There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder." Colin Kaepernick said that in 2016, the first time anyone asked. He was right, it cost him a career and a hundred and fifty million dollars, and ten years later he is still paying for other people's autopsies.

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Katty Customs did not plan this. The plan found her at eighteen, in a dream she almost did not tell anyone about. Now she is standing next to Steph Curry on national television.

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