NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is a modern day Rosa Parks according to NAACP president Cornell William Brooks.

Speaking to USA Today Sports, Brooks acknowledged that Parks is a "lofty name" for comparison – you know, because Rosa Parks was protesting actual white supremacy – though he still held that Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the National Anthem in protest of alleged police brutality against blacks occupies the same air as the woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white racist. 

"It’s a lofty name, but it’s not a stretch," said Brooks. "We’ll let history be the judge, how consequential Kaepernick’s action is."

Well, since Rosa Parks was never photographed wearing "pig cop" socks to the Montgomery bus boycott, history already shows the stark difference between the two. Also, Kaepernick plays professional football for a salary of $114 million dollars while black Americans were barely even allowed to pick up a baseball bat in Parks' time. 

Brooks also pledged the NAACP will fully support Kaepernick's protest and will use it as a rallying cry for black voters in November. 

"There is a real ambivalence and civic agnosticism when it comes to the vote," he said. "What we’re endeavoring to do is to remind people that all the things people are protesting in the streets are directly impacted by state and municipal elections.

"There’s been no movement in this country that has succeeded upon the heroism of any one individual," he continued, "but rather the loyal, committed, concerted and sustained action of a group of people. So you have to partner."