Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still surprised with the global effect of his silent protest against racism during NFL games. Kaepernick told the GQ magazine that of course he is aware that racism is a global problem, “but it surprised me how this protest spread across the world. I didn’t know that the problem was so deeply rooted in so many countries. “I think nobody had expected this reaction,” he said. Kaepernick, now a civil rights activist, was drafted by the 49ers in 2011 and led them to the NFC Championship game in 2013, in which they were defeated by eventual…