When Fabian “Occasional Superstar” Williams learned that his mural of Colin Kaepernick was demolished last Friday, he responded by creating #Kaeperbowl.
“Because of what the mural meant to so many people, I didn’t want for the mural to end like that. I didn’t want for that to be the news cycle for the rest of the Super Bowl,” Williams said.
Initially, Williams’ public art initiative called for seven Kaepernick murals to be painted in Atlanta around the Super Bowl since that was Kaepernick’s jersey number.
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