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He challenges viewers to understand that team scouts, owners and coaches want to make good investments by signing those with the best potential without much care for the players' humanity.
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The first episode may be shocking to some because it opens with Kaepernick comparing the NFL's selection of new players at tryouts to enslaved persons sold at markets under the American chattel slavery economy. This eventually causes a major issue with his coaches (he plays baseball, basketball and football) and he must cut off his braids to continue playing, according to a rule he has never heard of. But when Colin is about 14, he decides he wants his hair braided. He and his family then moved to Turlock, California, before he started school where there are also a lot of dairy farms and few Black people. The young mother placed her son for adoption when he was five-weeks-old, and a white couple, Rick (Nick Offerman) and Teresa (Mary-Louise Parker) Kaepernick, became his parents.Īs the young Colin narrates in the opening episode, he was born in Wisconsin where there are a lot of dairy farms and few Black people. His Black father left by the time Colin was born. Kaepernick was born in 1987 to a white mother in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Entwined with this hybrid semi-autobiography style (there are a variety of writers), Kaepernick uses his narrative to teach us about his life growing up as a biracial boy in America and the historical, cultural, familial and racial realities that shaped him. Jaden Michael is captivating as the younger Kaepernick.
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In the new Netflix series " Colin in Black & White," Kaepernick puts images and sound together to tell his life story through his teen years until he receives a scholarship in 2006 to play football for the University of Nevada, Reno.