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Jason Whitlock rips Colin Kaepernick’s July Fourth ‘divisive hot take packaged as righteous indignation’

By Spencer Neale
Published July 6, 2020 7:03pm ET
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Jason Whitlock rips Colin Kaepernick’s July Fourth ‘divisive hot take packaged as righteous indignation’
An arbitrator is sending Colin Kaepernick's grievance with the NFL to trial, denying the league's request to throw out the quarterback's claims that owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests of social injustice. | (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

On the same day that Disney announced an ESPN docuseries deal with Colin Kaepernick, a former sportswriter for the network unleashed a tirade against the former NFL player.

Jason Whitlock took particular umbrage with Kaepernick’s July 4 tweet, in which the former San Francisco quarterback called Independence Day a “celebration of white supremacy.”

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