Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has caused a wave of criticism after he compared the NFL draft process and training camp to being a slave in his new Netflix special.
Kaepernick made this comparison in “Colin in Black & White” to depict the league’s draft process and training camp.
“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick said in the special. “Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respect. No dignity left intact.”
The above video then cuts to a line of black actors portraying NFL prospects who morph into slaves at an auction with shackles on them. White slave owners can be seen bidding on the men and whipping them.
Former NFL player Jack Brewer is now firing back at him in a huge way.
“This new Colin Kaepernick doctrine that’s penetrating the minds and hearts of so many of our underserved Black kids across America is the single largest threat to Black men in the United States of America because right now folks are thinking that they’re victims and they’re living in the most prosperous, the most opportunity of any country in the world,” Brewer told Fox News.
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“You have kids that are hopeless and then you go out and push this mentality and you’re supposed to be someone that’s a leader,” he added. “Think about the movement that this guy started, the opportunity that he had that he could actually come and promote positivity to young Black men. Telling them how great this country is.”
“He doesn’t have that spirit in him,” Brewer concluded. “He has an evil, anti-American spirit and it’s sick and disgusting. One more thing. That even Netflix, someone that big and popular would even put something out like that, to penetrate the mind of these kids should be illegal.”
Others took issue with the analogy that Kaepernick used as well.
“How dare @Kaepernick7 compare the evil endured by so many of our ancestors to a bunch of millionaires who CHOSE to play game,” Utah GOP Rep. Burgess Owens, a former NFL player, wrote on Twitter.
“Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine, which allows all players of all races a voluntary chance to become multi-millionaires, to slavery,” added radio host Clay Travis. “Anyone still defending this imbecile lacks a functional brain.”
Kaepernick sparked controversy in 2016 when he kneeled during the national anthem at a 49ers game to raise awareness around racial inequality and police brutality.
