April 17, 2020
Colin Kaepernick Donates $100,000 to the Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Fund
Activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick initiated a $100,000 donation toward his Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 fund.
The announcement was seen on the Know Your Rights Camp Twitter feed.
#ICYMI, @kaepernick7 created the Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Relief Fund to raise money & awareness to the disproportionate impact this pandemic is having on Black & Brown communities. Join us in our mission 🖤✊🏾 Use the hashtag #WeGotUs + tag us after you donate so we can RP pic.twitter.com/aIv5biMwkp
— Know Your Rights Camp (@yourrightscamp) April 16, 2020
The activist also jump-started the fund with a sizable $100,00 donation.
I’m donating $100,000 to the Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Relief Fund. Join us in our mission to help address the disproportionate affect the pandemic is having on our communities🖤✊🏾Use the hashtag #WeGotUs & tag @yourrightscamp after you donate so they can show you some love pic.twitter.com/yzcTlvw7mR
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) April 16, 2020
The Know Your Rights Camp website reports that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting black and brown people.
“Hundreds of years of structural racism is making Black and Brown communities more vulnerable to the coronavirus. Black and Brown people are more likely to be infected, less likely to be tested, less likely to be treated, and more likely to die from COVID-19.
“Time and again, a state or county releases racial data. Time and again, those numbers reveal a sizable racial disparity. Time and again, black Americans are overrepresented among the infected and dead. America’s newest infection seems to be mating with America’s original infection, reproducing not life, but death.” Ibram X. Kendi, founder and executive director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center states on the site.
Kaepernick also relayed information about how the impact of the coronavirus directly impacts black and brown communities in a Twitter message.
Structural racism makes Black & Brown ppl more likely to die from #COVID19. We’ve launched the Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Relief Fund to directly impact the disproportionate effect #coronavirus is having on our communities. #WeGotUs 🖤✊🏾 Donate at: https://t.co/ag2euE1Qtz pic.twitter.com/aBcjKku2kC
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) April 16, 2020