Former NFL quarterback Colin Kapernick, who was adopted at 5 weeks old, accused his white adoptive parents of “perpetuating racism” in an interview that aired Thursday on CBS.
Kaepernick was adopted as an infant by Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. They moved to Turlock, California when he was four.
Kaepernick talked about coming to terms with his racial identity while growing up in a white family in his new graphic novel, “Change the Game.” The former football player recalled disagreements with his parents that he attributed to racism, calling his upbringing “problematic.”
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“I know my parents loved me. But there were still very problematic things that I went through,” the biracial quarterback, who led the charge with the take-a-knee movement, said to CBS News.
“I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home, and how we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated,” he added.
NY Post report: Kaepernick illustrated one specific example of this in the novel, depicting a fight he had with his parents during high school over his hairstyle.
Inspired to braid his hair in cornrows like his hero, NBA star Allen Iverson, Kaepernick recalled receiving pushback from his parents.
“He’s getting what rolls?” his mom says in the graphic novel.
Kaepernick said that after styling his hair this way, his mom warned that his hair was “not professional” and he “looked like a little thug.”
The former football player-turned-social justice activist said these teenage interactions helped shape his decisions as an adult to embrace his ethnicity.
“Those become spaces where it’s like, ‘Okay, how do I navigate the situation now?’ But it also has informed why I have my hair long today,” Kaepernick told CBS.
The former San Francisco 49er drew national attention when he started protesting the national anthem, kneeling on the field during NFL games to protest police brutality and racism.
Since then, he has partnered with Netflix for a docudrama series based on his life, and with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for its non-dairy flavor “Change the Whirled.” He has also made endorsement deals with Nike and other major companies over the years.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
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Crapperneck should have been aborted and made into dog food.
You don’t kbow his parents Maybe he knows then to actually be racists. Have you ever thought it’s that simple?
Sound more like human traffickers for the dime than want2b parents
hwre ht e fock do all dat hate4 Capie BY flowin bacwaord came flum???
he should get together with poor little rich girl Megan…they scream victim like no other morons i have ever seen.
You know its really very revealing when people take your attitude of just how indoctrinated you ACTUALLY are Anyone challenging your fundamentalist beliefs is attacked.
Your parents should have done the same.
It was NOT racism It was ENGLISH. SUPREMACY. The Russians didn’t invade Africa Canada New Zealand North America India China murdering and robbing enslaving drugging the natives I to submission to their indoctrination. The Swedish didn’t, the Danish the Norwegians, the Slavs, the Polish the Hungarians, the Swiss etc etc etc It was the Englosh first and foremost in creating the Empire the sun never set on and their extended family being the Dutch cousins and the Spanish cousins almost entirely those 3 in ot together to Co quer and colonise the world all for their Crowns that did it. It was not about white people It was about those 3 families.
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Try again.
Kaepernick; another reason to keep abortion available
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Just a bad seed. Nothing to do with race. All races produce a certain small percentage of entitled scum bags.
Entitled scum bags . Hmm, interesting.
So, trying to give a child a safe and secure upbringing is now classed as racist. Well, look in the mirror mate, and
think what may have happened to you if they hadn’t adopted you and then try some gratefulness and thank them from the bottom of your heart for the breaks you have enjoyed. Tosser.
Your inherent inbred racism blinds you to thinking from any other perspective than white supremacy quite obviously.
Lets you and me meet up. I will bring a baseball bat so I can knock some sense into you.
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CNN much fkhead
PALE SKINs sucks muchy FORGET THEM MOoCHERS
Yeah so now your pretending
you arent rhe neo nazi supremacist anymore and are back to playing your dumb ego identity
MO0OCHO pale SKIN=Weak DNA!!!
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Typical ungrateful minority
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Starve your self Crapperneck!
You are a self destructive failure in everything you do because of your arrogance racism stupidity and hate for the USA.
MUCHO PALE!!!
They should have drown him in the bathtub.
Democrats are all victims, even when they are not. Sad world we live in