NFL's partnership with Jay-Z complicates icon's previous support of Colin Kaepernick via YahooSports
When news broke Tuesday that hip-hop mogul and self-professed Colin Kaepernick supporter Jay-Z was cutting a partnership with the NFL to manage aspects of league entertainment and social justice ventures, two questions sprouted almost instantly.The answers: No and no.
“[Kaepernick] absolutely brought this conversation alive,” Jay-Z told the Wall Street Journal. “We like to think that the way we build the Inspire Change platform, that if anything close to that would happen in the future, then Kaepernick would have a platform where he can express himself and maybe it doesn’t have to take place on the field.”
An audio tape of one of those private meetings was turned over to The New York Times, which produced this passage from a story by the newspaper several months later.
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