Colin Kaepernick thinks he’s the only one allowed to benefit from capitalism
Zachary Faria
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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is back to tell you about the evils of capitalism and how you can buy his new book for $20 in paperback or $52 with a hardcover.
Kaepernick is promoting a new book that he “helped edit” about how black history “has always been contraband.” In his comments promoting the book, he declared that “black liberation simply isn’t possible under capitalism” and that “White supremacy persists in part because of its relationship with capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and so on.”
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Kaepernick has made it clear through his activism that he is not a particularly smart individual.
His tortured defense of Cuban dictator (and racist) Fidel Castro based on Cuba’s literacy rates was particularly embarrassing. Throwing activist buzzwords such as “heteropatriarchy” and “ableism” only reinforces the fact that his understanding of politics and history is sophomoric.
But his comments about capitalism are noteworthy for just how wrong they are from someone who should know better.
Ignore for now the fact that slavery actually held capitalism back in the United States and other countries, and just focus on Kaepernick’s background. After being drafted 36th overall in the 2011 NFL Draft, Kaepernick received a four-year contract worth over $5 million. The San Francisco 49ers later gave him a six-year $114 million extension.
A mostly mediocre afterthought who had a couple of good years, Kaepernick received nearly $65 million in guaranteed money for his six-year NFL career.
In fact, the NFL draft makes several black millionaires every single year. The minimum rookie salary in the NFL is $750,000, and a total of 80 (mostly black) players in the 2023 draft class received a signing bonus of more than $1 million before even taking an NFL field. The NFL’s success as the most culturally dominant institution in the country is a product of capitalism.
Moreover, Kaepernick himself is a puppet for corporations with his sanitized activism.
Forget for a second that a book with his name attached to it (because he “helped edit” it) is going for up to $52 on Amazon’s website. How much money did Kaepernick make from turning his petulant protest into a massive Nike deal featuring shoes, billboards, commercials, and online ads? What about the almost $10 million that Netflix gave him so that he could compare the aforementioned NFL Draft that made him a multi-millionaire to slave auctions?
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Woke capitalism is still capitalism, and few have benefitted from it more than Kaepernick.
Nike, Netflix, and other corporations broke down his door to tie themselves to his faux revolutionary image and almost certainly made him even richer than his NFL career did. Kaepernick either doesn’t believe a word he is saying about capitalism, or he is simply too dumb to understand how big of a hypocrite he is. It’s an open question as to which one is the answer.