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" Colin Kaepernick threw The Ring into the volcano with his National Anthem protest last month, exploding the Internet Outrage Mountain and inviting the volcanic takes to dribble down the sides and into your cerebrum. Another result of this, though, is that sales of Kaepernick&amp;#039;s San Francisco 49ers jersey have gone through the roof. Before his sit-in began, he didn&amp;#039;t crack the top 100 in the NFL for jersey sales. Now he has the top selling jersey in the league, an indication that some people, you know, support him. But wait, say the naysayers, isn&amp;#039;t this evidence this was always all about him? Isn&amp;#039;t he just trying to personally benefit from this so-called protest? Kaepernick provided something of an answer today, ESPN reports, when he announced on Instagram that he will donate all the proceeds he receives from jersey sales to charity.           I want to thank everyone who has shown me love and support, it truly means a lot! I wasn&amp;#039;t expecting my jersey sales to jump to number one because of this, but it shows the people&amp;#039;s belief that we can achieve justice and equality for ALL! The only way I can repay you for the support is to return the favor by donating all the proceeds I receive from my jersey sales back into the communities! I believe in the people, and WE can be the change! A photo posted by colin kaepernick (@kaepernick7) on Sep 7, 2016 at 7:22am PDT     It&amp;#039;s actually the second such pledge he&amp;#039;s made\u2014he previously promised to donate $1 million to &amp;quot;various causes,&amp;quot; ESPN notes. One of the criticisms of Kaepernick&amp;#039;s protest is that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;not doing anything off the field&amp;quot; to help the communities whose issues he is trying to highlight, so this should go some way towards...Never mind. The battle lines are drawn.  But it is a nice move, right?  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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