Before Colin Kaepernick was the face of a protest movement, he was just a teenager trying to figure out who he was and where he was going. A new graphic novel, titled 'Change the Game,' explores how he embraced his Blackness as a teen.
We end the story there for a few reasons. One, to make sure that we don't have a never-ending book, because there's a lot of story to tell. But the other part of it is we wanted to create a defining moment that younger kids and high school kids could identify with, which is that transition and decision of what to do after high school.
And for me, at that point in time, baseball was the obvious decision for everyone around me. I have multiple offers. I had the MLB come and sit down in my living room and tell me they wanted to draft me. There was an obvious career path there. And I had not a single offer for football at this point, but it was what I loved and what I wanted to do. I made the decision that that's what I was going to chase, in spite of everyone else telling me I should go a different direction.
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