Ten years after the beginning of the end of his NFL career, Colin Kaepernick is going on a book tour to try to make himself relevant again and maintain the fiction that he was some brave, selfless activist.
Kaepernick is touting his new memoir, The Perilous Fight, in which he repeats the same old tired talking points of a college student discovering black political activism for the first time. From the description of the memoir on his website, you can tell that Kaepernick will be covering familiar ground, from trashing the white parents who adopted him to claiming that the NFL was and is a racially exploitative institution. It is an attempt to pretend that an unintelligent man with the intellectual depth of a puddle has something deep and profound to say about what America is.
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More notable is that liberal media have flocked to breathe life back into Kaepernick’s moronic activism, as he has been a total afterthought over the last several years. The Atlantic is promoting Kaepernick as a speaker at its Atlantic Festival, referring to the 188th-ranked player in career NFL passing yards (behind Mac Jones, among others) as a “legendary quarterback.” NPR is joining Kaepernick in painting Jay-Z as an enemy of “the movement,” as the rapper partnered with the NFL in 2019 to produce the halftime show for the Super Bowl, a role he still has to this day.
The return of fawning media coverage is asking you to believe three things. The first is that Kaepernick didn’t sabotage his career at every possible point after he began his protests. He got benched for poor play by the San Francisco 49ers, refused a pay cut that would allow him to be traded to the Denver Broncos, and then opted out of his contract. When the Baltimore Ravens were interested in signing him, his girlfriend publicly compared the team’s white owner to a slave owner and its best-ever player (Ray Lewis, who is black) to a race traitor. When the league orchestrated a special private workout for him, Kaepernick moved it across town at the last minute, causing several team scouts to miss it entirely.
The second thing you are being asked to believe is that Kaepernick made some deep sacrifices. Considering his career was already flaming out based on his on-field play, and that Nike showered him with millions in endorsement deals solely because of his “activism,” he clearly did not.
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But the third thing is the most important: You are being asked to believe that Kaepernick has something worthwhile to say. He doesn’t, and he never did. His claims about racism in police shootings were always wrong. He used his position to shill for Cuba’s oppressive communist regime and then celebrated domestic terrorists while calling for the abolition of policing itself. He was a political tool, propped up by race hustlers who knew that Kaepernick was never intelligent enough to say anything interesting on his own.
Now that the NFL is more popular than ever (and has bounced back from the viewership issues that followed Kaepernick’s protest), Kaepernick is desperate to attach himself to the league’s popularity again. Liberal media is happy to help him in order to keep their racism narratives alive, and so they must all pretend that Kaepernick is some intellectual titan of the moment, when all he is now is a parrot who repeats the talking points of race-obsessed “experts” who want to use the NFL to continue to divide the public along racial lines.