Amnesty International, an organization started based on a scam and denounced by its own founder, tries to remind people that it exists every year by handing out its Ambassador of Conscience award.
The Ambassador of Conscience award is handed out to either celebrities (last years's ambassador was Alicia Keys) or brand name human rights figures like Nelson Mandela, to make the award more desirable to celebrities. It's cynical and shameless. Much like Amnesty International and Colin Kaepernick, this year's Ambassador.
Colin Kaepernick is to football what Amnesty International is to human rights.
A little flashback, Amnesty International was founded by British lawyer Peter Benenson because of the supposed arrest of two Portuguese students for making some sort of political toast.
The event never happened. Amnesty International was created based on a scam.
Things got worse from there.
Peter Benenson claimed that British intelligence was taking over the organization. And there were indeed indications that AI was being used to subvert the government in Rhodesia. (The role of the British government in the destruction of Rhodesia is still one of the darkest acts of treachery in modern times.)
And then there's Colin Kaepernick, who does his best work on his knees.
Colin Kaepernick isn't a human rights activist. He's a black nationalist and a mediocre football player. The award is a mutual lovefest that gives AI and Colin Kaepernick another 15 minutes of fame.