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Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick’s Face-to-Face Photo Goes Viral After Hilarious Meme Takes Off

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Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick after the Carolina Panthers defeated the San Francisco 49ers (Twitter)

Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick after the Carolina Panthers defeated the San Francisco 49ers (Twitter)

When Colin Kaepernick and Cam Newton faced off on the football field, one photo of the two went viral. The image shows Afro-haired Kaepernick turning toward Newton, who had his mouth ajar.

Photographers captured the reportedly staged image after Newton’s Carolina Panthers played Kaepernick’s San Francisco 49ers Sunday.

The Panthers ultimately beat the 49ers 46-27, but many took the photo and imagined the conversation between the quarterbacks.

Most tweets focused on the athletes’ opposing views on racial injustice in America.

After Kaepernick announced his protest of the national anthem in August, it created a divide on social media.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color,” he said to NFL.com. 

When ESPN asked Newton about Kaepernick’s political position, he responded in a colorblind manner.

“What I can’t fathom is how does one-eighth of an inch — something so small — be the difference in such a big commodity in our whole lifetime,” he said of race and skin tone. “Under that, we’re all the same color.”

Based on their differing stances, Briantelevision1 imagined Newton asked Kaepernick why he did not rise for the American flag.

https://twitter.com/BrianHudson718/status/777634819912204289

@pettyflocko took on Newton’s declaration that America is “beyond race.”

They imagined the Panthers player told Kaepernick “all lives matter.” The 49ers star did not take it well.

https://twitter.com/pettyflocko/status/777681021940535296

Meanwhile, Rod, a Black podcaster, guessed Newton would favor pop singer Taylor Swift over pro-Black Beyoncé.

https://twitter.com/rodimusprime/status/777644607504908288

@OvaTimePodcast made a reference to the 1985 cult classic The Last Dragon and its villain Sho’nuff.

Lip Gallagher thought Newton declared “slavery was a long time ago” before demanding Kaepernick get a hair cut.

https://twitter.com/tonestradamus/status/777627096751411200

Richie Loco took a page out of the #KapSoBlack hashtag, which called attention to Kaepernick’s 1970s-style afro.

He imagined the two footballers speaking in decades-old slang.

Tackling the controversy over the death of Harambe the ape earlier this year, BrifodesYT pictured Kaepernick telling Newton the animal “was just a gorilla.”

https://twitter.com/brifodes1/status/777665404412039168

@PercivalPenman gave the image a dramatic title.

https://twitter.com/PercivalPenman/status/777634131362447360

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