Whitlock: Netflix series reveals Colin Kaepernick's 'daddy issues' and similarities to Cardi B



For Halloween, Netflix and Ava DuVernay dressed up former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a righteous black man.

The streaming service and celebrated movie producer borrowed T'Challa's Black Panther costume, Huey P. Newton's afro, and the ramblings of "In Living Color" prison revolutionary Oswald Bates to portray Kaepernick as the modern-day Muhammad Ali.

Despite their best efforts and three hours of edited content, Kaepernick still came across as far more Clayton Bigsby than black revolutionary in the six-part miniseries "Colin in Black and White." You remember Bigsby? He was a Dave Chappelle character, the blind black man who joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Only a member of the KKK could fully enjoy DuVernay and Kaepernick's portrayal of black manhood. According to the miniseries, being a black man is about wearing braids/cornrows, eating highly seasoned fried foods, feeling degraded, dehumanized, and offended at so-called micro-aggressions, and fantasizing about loving black women while dating white and/or biracial women.

"Black and White" erased any doubts about the fraudulence and substance-deficiency of Colin Kaepernick, the biracial football player-turned-actorvist. Kap, DuVernay, and Netflix share the same view of black men as the KKK.

Let me unpack this for a moment.

According to "Black and White," black men have been feminized to the point that we obsess about our hairstyles. Episode one of the miniseries is titled "Cornrows." In it, DuVernay and Kaepernick venerate former NBA star Allen Iverson and his hairstyle. Kap states that Iverson "embraced his culture. He braided his hair."

The episode focuses on Kaepernick's white adoptive parents' mixed feelings about cornrows. His mother goes from paying for his hair to be braided and purchasing the multitude of maintenance accessories to complaining that the hairstyle made her son look like a "thug." Kap's father justifiably wonders why any man would waste time, energy, and thought on a hairstyle when that time, energy, and thought could be used on much higher priorities.

Many black parents have the exact same thoughts and concerns, and they express those concerns in the exact same fashion. The Kaepernicks were not being racist. They were being pragmatic.

Today cornrows, braids, buns, dreadlocks, and exotic hair colors don't convey a thug image as much as they convey daddy issues. They're byproducts of young boys who spent more time waiting on their mamas at a beauty salon than sitting with their daddies inside a barbershop.

The Kaepernick miniseries should be retitled "Daddy Issues." It was an exploration of the problems caused by the absence of Kaepernick's black biological father.

Colin Kaepernick dropped to his knees because he really wants to swing from a stripper pole.

That's the real takeaway from "Black and White." It's a story about a man struggling with his identity who chose a woman to tell his story. It's what "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" would read like if Alexandria Haley wrote it.

There were twice as many black gay or lesbian couples depicted in the series as black nuclear couples. No black father or husband was written into the script. A group of black boys showed up at a hotel for a baseball tournament. There wasn't a daddy in sight.

Maybe those scenes were left on the cutting room floor to make room for the fried chicken and pork chops DuVernay depicted. Every time Kaepernick showed up at a black house, the place was swimming in Lawry's seasoned salt, Crisco, and collard greens. The series insinuated that Kaepernick instantly felt more comfortable in surroundings that produce high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. It's a natural instinct, not a remnant of slavery, for black men to prefer food that kills.

It's an odd message for an athlete who is vegan and obsesses over his abs and biceps.

Kaepernick, to this day, doesn't know who he is. He has severe daddy issues.

When you know who you are, you don't concern yourself with micro-aggressions. The random, misguided perceptions of white people don't make you feel degraded, dehumanized, and offended. They make you feel confident you're dealing with someone not on your level. Kaepernick is weak. That's why any random white person can make him feel insecure.

Beyond weak, he's delusional. In the fifth episode of the series, Kaepernick casts himself as Malcolm X in pursuit of his Betty Shabazz. He takes a super dark-skinned black girl to the homecoming dance. He portrays his parents as having a problem with his decision. I do not know the Kaepernicks. I've lived 54 years and I've seen a lot. I've never met a white person who has a problem with a black or biracial man or boy dating a black woman. Never seen it. Never heard of it. No way they objected because of her race.

What I found hysterical is Kaepernick portraying himself as a lover of dark chocolate. His longtime girlfriend/handler, Nessa, is Egyptian. She's not black. Her specialty isn't fried chicken and collard greens. She's Kardashian. Before Nessa, Kap was linked to Bundle of Brittany, or Brittany Renner. The half-frican American Instagram Barbie doll who has been auctioning herself off to athletes for the last decade.

Kap has a type. And it looks nothing like the black girl in his miniseries. Kap prefers Becky Shabazz over Betty Shabazz.

Kap is a fraud, and not a very smart one. The depictions of racism in "Black and White" were comically unsophisticated and unbelievable. Kaepernick's dad allegedly sped down the highway day after day and waved at a cop who clocked him speeding. The day Kaepernick drove his parents' car, the cop instantly pulled him over and nearly drew his weapon when Kaepernick reached for his driver's license.

The worst thing about the series is knowing Kaepernick signed off on the demonization and ridicule of his adoptive parents. Two human beings chose to love and raise Kaepernick when his biological parents failed to take the responsibility. Throughout the six episodes, Kaepernick's parents are portrayed as bumbling, passive-aggressive racists with good intentions.

Kaepernick opened the final episode of the series stating that his parents really wanted to adopt a white baby.

"Since the day I was born I was never anybody's first choice," he said.

Kaepernick is still dealing with major daddy issues. Someone buy the man a stripper pole, a thong, and high heels. He's more Cardi B than Huey P.

Colin Kaepernick equates being an NFL player to slavery in Netflix special, gets obliterated online as 'shameless con artist'



Colin Kaepernick has a new special on Netflix, where he equates being an NFL player to slavery. The internet unmercifully ridiculed the comparison.

"Colin in Black and White" is a six-part docudrama series on Netflix "recounting his formative years navigating race, class, and culture while aspiring for greatness."

The series will detail "Kaepernick's life growing up as the Black adopted son in a white family living in Turlock, California, as well as social commentary discussing the history of racism within professional sports," according to IndieWire.

Kaeperick's special debuted on the streaming giant on Friday, and one particular scene was panned brutally on social media a day later.

The clip showed Kapernick at an NFL combine or training camp,

An overly dramatic Kaepernick points at NFL coaches, then looks at the camera and says, "What they don't want you to understand is what's being established is a power dynamic."

"Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you," the melodramatic Kaepernick states. "Searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respected, no dignity left intact."

The NFL players – all black – then leave the field and walk back in time to a slave auction with a cotton field background. As the white slaveowners examine the slaves that are chained, a clip of a football coach looks at the wingspan of a football player. Then the screen flashed back to the slave auction, where a slave owner then shakes hands with a current-day football coach.

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The over-the-top clip was obliterated on social media for trivializing the horrors of slavery and comparing it to athletes willingly accepting millions of dollars to play sports – including Kaepernick, who made over $43 million during his six-year NFL career.

Super Bowl-winning NFL player turned Congressman Burgess Owens: "How dare @Kaepernick7 compare the evil endured by so many of our ancestors to a bunch of millionaires who CHOSE to play game."

TheBlaze contributor Delano Squires: "I find Kaepernick's support of police/prison abolition a lot more problematic than this. William Rhoden, author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves, and others have been making this comparison for a long time. It's silly and dishonors the past, but I'm not surprised."

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh: "Kaepernick spent half a decade crying that NFL teams wouldn't give him a shot and now he's decided that actually being an NFL player is like being a slave. This dude is the most obvious and shameless con artist in modern American history."

Former Nevada GOP Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian: "The last time I checked, not one pro athlete is beaten into submission, raped, or killed. Many have obscene contracts while playing the victim. Kaepernick has hit an all-time low. It's disgusting that he chooses to make money by amplifying this BS."

Podcast host Lauren Chen: "No, Colin Kaepernick. Being a millionaire athlete is not like being a slave."

Fox Sports radio host Doug Gottlieb: "But he wants to play? I'm so confused by this… so #NFL teams are supposed to draft players w/o evals? By not signing him did the league 'free' Kap? Slavery was forced labor, the #NFL compensates you well. Someone make sense of this plz."

Former NFL player Jake Bequette: "This clip is pathetic. We chose to play the game that we loved and we were paid well to do it. Shame on @netflix, @Nike, and the @NFL for embracing @Kaepernick7's antics and his disgraceful message."

Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg: "These fools are minimizing the evils of slavery. Paying millionaires to play a game they love is not exactly the same thing as chattel slavery. And if I were to suggest it was I'd be called a racist — and rightly so."

Outkick founder Clay Travis: "Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine, which allows all players of all races a voluntary chance to become multi-millionaires, to slavery. Anyone still defending this imbecile lacks a functional brain."

Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair: "Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL to actual slave trade I must've missed the part where slaves were paid $43 MILLION like Kaepernick? What a spoiled loser."

Independent journalist Zaid Jilani: "If Kaepernick wants to learn about slavery he could start by asking his employer Nike how they produce goods in China."