Former Dallas Cowboys star Dez Bryant took a shot at Colin Kaepernick in a recent podcast appearance and called the former quarterback out for not creating jobs.
He made those remarks on the “I AM ATHLETE” podcast with Brandon Marshall, Chad Ochocinco, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder.
“I respect Colin Kaepernick. But there is one thing that I don’t respect and I said when I get the opportunity and to get on the stage and say it, I would say it. And I love him to death. So there ain’t no hate or nothing like that,” Bryant said.
“But brotha, you had the biggest opportunity in the world to create jobs, to build jobs, to give jobs to people. The people you was talking about. The people that you were so-called ‘standing up for.’ People who stood beside you, people who lost their jobs because of you. Where you at? I ain’t heard from you. He brought the awareness and that’s why I respect him.”
Supporters of Kaepernick took to Twitter to blast the former All-Pro.
Among them was Jemele Hill.
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“With all due respect @DezBryant, this is uninformed. Colin Kaepernick has created a publishing company, a SPAC that’s raising $300M for social justice initiatives, a production company, etc. On top of founding the Know Your Rights Camp. I don’t get the point of dragging his name.”
“I never said one negative thing about him… I didn’t know wanting to know something was dragging somebody name…”
When Kaepernick started kneeling during 2016, Dez Bryant and the Dallas Cowboys decided to stop kneeling after week 3, partly because owner Jerry Jones demanded his players stand.
Bryant would later speak to the media and said “I got a family to feed.”
“Whatever they got going on with that, that’s them,” Dez said. “I don’t really have nothing to say about that.”
Bryant responded to a series of tweets in which he clarified, “I care about my black people,” but added, “at the same time I have a family.”
