Kaepernick holds 'I Know My Rights' youth camp

Colin Kaepernick is trying to keep his word to the community.

During the San Francisco 49ers' bye week, the team's quarterback remained in the Bay Area and hosted a youth camp. But the camp had nothing to do with football. Kaepernick instead led an "I Know My Rights Camp," according to Shaun King of the New York Daily News.

As Kaepernick's decision to kneel during the playing of the national anthem before every game drew more attention, he promised to keep the focus on the message - his opposition of the treatment of people of color in America - and vowed to spend more time in local communities speaking about the subject.

For his camp, he stayed up late Friday night filling backpacks for hundreds of campers from the Oakland area. Each received a T-shirt with 10 points listed on the back:

1. You have the right to be free.

2. You have the right to be healthy.

3. You have the right to be brilliant.

4. You have the right to be safe.

5. You have the right to be loved.

6. You have the right to be courageous.

7. You have the right to be alive.

8. You have the right to be trusted.

9. You have the right to be educated.

10. You have the right to know your rights.

"We're here today to fight back and give you all lessons to combat the oppressive issues that our people face on a daily basis," Kaepernick said, according to King. "We're here to give you tools to help you succeed. We're going to give you knowledge on policing history, what the systems of policing in America were based on, and we're also going to teach you skills to make sure you always make it home safely."

Afterwards, Kaepernick said he wasn't satisfied with just the one camp.

"This is just the beginning, man," he said. "What we've done here today in Oakland, we want to do all over the country, in cities all over this country, by bringing together local leaders, local activists, and local youth, and not only giving them the skills and lessons they need, but we want to show them how much we love and value them."

Kaepernick concluded the camp by telling the assembled group he recently discovered through a DNA test that he has ancestry from Ghana and Nigeria. He left each camper with a free DNA test so they could discover their ancestry as well.