Colin Kaepernick, having failed in his quest to rejoin the NFL, recently tried to expand his much-publicized activism to foreign policy. After the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani, Kaepernick ridiculously opined, “There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.”

On Saturday, Kaepernick’s former team, the San Francisco 49ers, will be hosting the Minnesota Vikings as the top seed in the NFC. And there’s a reason why Kaepernick is spending his time pumping out bad takes on Twitter rather than preparing for the playoffs. But it is not the reason you’ve been given by him, Nike, or his publicists in the media.