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Published 17:18 08 Feb 2021 GMT
Mariah Carey took to Twitter yesterday to slam the Super Bowl and show her support for Colin Kaepernick.
"Happy Colin Kaepernick Appreciation Day!" the pop star wrote on Twitter Sunday night (February 7) in the middle of the game.
The tweet was the only post the singer made on the social media website this weekend, and at the time of writing on Monday, it has garnered over 373K likes and 60.8K retweets.
Former NFL star Kaepernick last played in 2016, for the San Francisco 49ers, and he made the poignant decision to kneel during the national anthem to protest ongoing racial injustice and police brutality.
Ahead of this year's Super Bowl, on Thursday NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke about the quarterback and activist, and said that he deserved "our recognition" and "our appreciation" for his decision to publically challenge systematic racism.
This is not the first time that Mariah has shown her support for the sporting star, and in 2018, she posted a photograph of the pair to Instagram, which she captioned: "Such an honor."
Mariah's support for Kaepernick comes after he called for police and prisons to be abolished last year.
He put forward his argument in a new series titled Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons.
It was created via a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and the Medium publication Level, which as per its website, was created to build on the rich tradition of Black organizing and freedom-fighting.
The debut essay is titled The Demand for Abolition, and in the document, Kaepernick wrote: "Over the next four weeks, we will publish 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers, movement leaders, scholars, and family members of those affected by anti-Black state violence and terrorism."
"Reform, at its core, preserves, enhances, and further entrenches policing and prisons into the United States' social order," Kaepernick wrote. "Abolition is the only way to secure a future beyond anti-Black institutions of social control, violence, and premature death."
He said that he would like the police to be replaced with "transformative and restorative processes that are not rooted in punitive practices."
