Colin Kaepernick to receive Muhammad Ali Award for fighting 'racial injustice'

Lonnie Ali, Muhammad's late wife and co-founder of the center, added:

"Colin has used his platform to advocate for equality, human dignity, and social change, even when doing so came at significant personal and professional cost."

Now, to reality.

Kaepernick is hardly worthy of an award bearing Muhammad Ali's name. Ali risked his freedom and sacrificed the prime of his boxing career when he refused induction into the military during the Vietnam War. He was stripped of his heavyweight title, barred from boxing for more than three years and convicted of draft evasion.

Ali became a martyr. He paid a real price. Kaepernick did neither.

He had become unplayable.

Kneeling during the anthem proved financially rewarding for an athlete who would've had to otherwise settle for league minimum contracts.

He had also become an inflammatory figure, denouncing July 4 as a racist celebration and comparing the NFL's treatment of players to slavery and plantations.

Colin Kaepernick was more moron than martyr.

The Muhammad Ali Center should be ashamed to honor him. Then again, the center lost much of its prestige years ago. In 2022, it awarded Dr. Anthony Fauci its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Oh, how poorly that has aged.

Still, Kaepernick will use the award to promote his upcoming book, "The Perilous Fight."