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Outspoken San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who last made headlines by refusing to stand during the playing of the national anthem before an NFL football game, continued to act as a lightning rod for controversy by appearing at a 30 August 2016 press conference wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with photographs of '60s Nation of Islam leader and black power advocate Malcolm X and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. A slogan on the shirt read, Like Minds Think Alike. It's unsurprising that Kaepernick would make a fashion gesture aligning himself with radical historical figures, given that he has explained his personal boycott of the national anthem in terms of a protest against the oppression of minorities in this country: According to an article in Slate, the photos adorning Kaepernick's shirt were taken during an historic September 1960 meeting between Malcolm X and Fidel Castro in Harlem, New York. Some observers, notably Cuban-Americans, have taken Kaepernick to task for expressing tacit approval of Castro, an unrepentant communist dictator whose own human rights record isn't exactly a shining beacon of liberty. This is what Orlando Sentinel reporter George Diaz, whose family fled Cuba in 1961, had to say: Contrary to what some sources have claimed, Kaepernick did not discuss his national anthem protest during this press conference.
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