Inside Colin Kaepernick's Trip to Africa

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, we speak to Ameer Loggins, the lecture organizer for Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camps. Loggins traveled with Kaepernick for the quarterback's summer trip to Ghana and Egypt and explains the significance of the trip. We also talk about the O.J. parole hearing, Michael Vick's "Hairgate" comments and much more!Ameer Logginshttp://theuniversityofleft.tumblr.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/leftsentthisZirin, O.J.'s Parole: A Fitting End to the 'Fifth Quarter.'https://www.thenation.com/article/o-j-s-parole-a-fitting-end-to-the-fifth-quarter/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | https://www.instagram.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—I Wish - Stevie Wonder | Eye Examination - Del The Funky Homosapien | Feeling Good - Nina Simone | Still a G Thang - Snoop Dogg | Cloud 9 - Donnie | Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway | Kools Back Again - Kool & The Gang | I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye | Fonky Expedition - Conscious Daughters | Regulate - Warren G Feat. Nate Dogg | Da Game Been Good To Me - UGK | Legend Has It - Run the Jewels | Midnight - Tribe Called Quest | Waves - Joey Bada$$ | The Wire Outro Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	One of the engines behind Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camps, he is also, I have to say, one of the sharpest knives in the box.
0:17.7	His name is Amir Hassan Loggins.
0:20.2	What is your read on what has happened this offseason with Colin Kaepernick in the box. His name is Amir Hassan Loggins. What is your read on what has happened this
0:22.9	offseason with Colin Kaepernick in the National Football League? I had to work out with
0:27.1	a couple of times, so I know he's given up at five in the morning every day working out.
0:31.4	As he's on vacation in Africa, he's finding a way to work out. He's with the people. He's happy. But at the same time,
0:39.8	he's hungry. You know, he wants to work. And he shouldn't have to campaign to let people know
0:44.7	that he wants to work because he didn't express a desire to not work. When you strip it down
0:50.9	to the bare, brute facts, he would be campaigning for his right to employment.
0:56.4	And I have never seen anybody campaign for their right to employment in NFL and that nature.
1:06.3	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. This week we are speaking to the lead researcher and lecturer for Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camps. His name is Amir Hassan Loggins. We also have choice words about the OJ verdict. Just stand up, just sit your ass down,
1:28.1	Kaepernick watch, and a whole lot more. But first, let's go to this gentleman. He is a graduate
1:35.0	of UC Berkeley working towards his doctorate in African diaspora studies. His research explores,
1:41.5	get this, and I will ask him about OJ, reality television as a social phenomena and how it affects the perception of blackness.
1:50.9	He also is, as I said, one of the engines behind Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camps.
1:56.5	He is also, I have to say, one of the sharpest knives in the box.
2:01.1	His name is Amir Hassan Loggins.
2:07.2	I got to ask you about some breaking news stories about Colin Kaepernick.
2:12.3	I mean, Dan Orlovsky, someone who a lot of people thought hadn't been in the NFL for a decade,
2:17.9	was just signed as a backup quarterback. What is your read on what has happened this offseason with
2:23.5	Colin Kaepernick in the National Football League? I mean, I guess a part of my read on what's had
2:28.9	Colin during the off season, it's an extension of what was happening during the actual regular season.
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