Colin Kaepernick has been an inspiration to many and well worthy of praise and admiration. So much so, that a mural to honor his sacrifice was created.
The mural was painted on a building that sits directly across from the city’s Morehouse College, an all-male historically black school, but on Friday afternoon (February 1st) it was demolished just as a reported hundreds of thousands migrated to Atlanta for Super Bowl weekend.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a fire took place inside the edifice six months prior. Nevertheless, the mural still remained. According to mural painter Fabian Williams, the building’s owner never had any complaints about the artwork.
“He said he liked it,” Williams tells the AJC. “But said that the city was complaining to him about it.”
The @Kaepernick7 mural in Atlanta by @fabianism has been demolished just days before Super Bowl 53. I’m speechless. pic.twitter.com/n9iyXFSc3Z
— Jagroop Shinbt (@Jag_Singh21) February 1, 2019
Williams took to Instagram on Saturday to announce his intention to paint seven (Kaepernick’s jersey number) murals of Kaepernick around town on Super Bowl Sunday, inviting other artists to take part and asking for local businesses to donate wall space.
The call to action worked in a big way and a new image rose like a phoenix after a fire.
It was great to see the call to action be answered so quickly. While some protested the Super Bowl, some clearly took to the streets and let their artwork be heard.
