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Colin Kaepernick’s children’s book ‘I Color Myself Different’ inspired by his upbringing
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nypost.comstatement this week. The book, “I Color Myself Different,” takes its name from one of his childhood experiences growing up as an adopted black child of white parents and will be “deeply personal,” the athlete said. “During a kindergarten exercise on drawing families, Kaepernick remembers putting down the yellow crayon he had been using to draw his family and picking up the brown crayon for himself,” a press release for the book reads. “This moment crystallized for him the differences marked by his adoption, and how acknowledging those distinctions could encourage us all to be more accepting of ourselves and each other.”The book will be published by Scholastic in April and is part of a multi-book publishing deal Kaepernick struck with the.
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