49ers’ Colin Kaepernick says voting would be hypocritical

49ers’ Colin Kaepernick says voting would be hypocritical

The football postgame news conference is not designed for political debate, so there was no give-and-take Sunday when Colin Kaepernick defended his decision to not vote in Tuesday’s election.

About half the eligible American voters also snubbed the ballot box, but Kaepernick, after all, is the leader of a movement he hopes will inspire changes in our current system.

At the end of his brief postgame newser, I asked Kaepernick, “The criticism from you saying you weren’t going to vote — do you have a reaction to that?”

Kaepernick, true to his new persona as a man who no longer ducks questions, said, You know, I think it would be hypocritical of me to vote.

Under his sport coat, Kaepernick wore a black T-shirt with a quote attributed to Malcom X in large lettering, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”