Racial issues in sports span across the world and manifest themselves in different ways depending on where they take place. This brings us to American sports’ current number one hot button issue, still, after three years: Colin Kaepernick vs. the National Football League.

The NFL national anthem protests have now reached the tuft fields of America’s college football teams.

In America, I see a deeply flawed nation that has destroyed so much in the name of greed but which constantly evolves in order to fix the inequalities at its core.

As football fans across America can attest, the tone of the 2016 season has changed the precedent for social commentary in relation to the sport.