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Months later, the former Super Bowl quarterback was effectively pushed out of the NFL for his weekly quiet protest; he would later \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/695213705/colin-kaepernick-reaches-agreement-with-the-nfl-his-lawyer-says\">successfully sue the NFL for collusion\u003c/a>, alleging that teams blackballed him and former teammate Eric Reid.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, a decade after first quietly taking a knee in protest, Kaepernick is speaking about his journey, as he shares his new book with the world.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13908962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eli Harold (from left), Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest during the national anthem prior to a game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium on Oct. 6, 2016, in Santa Clara. 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"content": "\u003cp>Before Colin Kaepernick was the face and catalyst of a protest movement — across sports and society — and before he was the San Francisco 49ers’ starting quarterback in the Super Bowl XLVII, he was just a teenager trying to figure out who he was and where he was going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908958']Navigating everything from family to school can be especially overwhelming as a teenager. When it came to sports, Kaepernick often grappled with whether he was taking the right athletic route to the pros. He ruminated on pursuing baseball — where he had a lot of offers from colleges and received house visits from Major League Baseball personnel — or following his heart and patiently wait for a football scholarship. From anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of sports, Kaepernick wrestled with his identity within his blended adoptive family. Culturally speaking, he felt misunderstood. His adoptive parents were white, and while Kaepernick is biracial, he identified as a Black man and the world around him treated him as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His upbringing and teen crucibles are the source of his new graphic novel, titled \u003cem>Change the Game\u003c/em>, which is written with Eve Ewing and illustrated by Orlando Caicedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926032 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-scaled.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR’s Juana Summers, Kaepernick evinces what allowed him to fully soak in and embrace his Blackness. Kaepernick says he got his identity footing looking up to Allen Iverson — AKA ‘The Answer.’ This cultural icon’s bravado, braids and ability to make anyone — even ‘His Airness’ Michael Jordan — look foolish on the basketball court, gave Kaepernick a new prototype of Blackness to build and contribute toward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the struggles Kaepernick dealt with as a teen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was navigating the difficulties of family, community, school, and major life decisions. Like, while I am biracial, I identify as a young Black man. So I was trying to navigate that while having a white family and being in a predominantly white community, and trying to find ways to make sure that my identity and Blackness wasn’t stripped from me along that journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his decision and inspiration to get cornrows \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the era of Allen Iverson, a cultural phenom. He was someone that I looked up to, and I saw him be so unapologetically Black and unapologetically himself. It was something I aspired to, and I looked at that as an opportunity for me to be able to really take hold of my Blackness and do it in a way that I was proud of and I was excited about. And the difficulty with that is being in white culture with Eurocentric beauty standards, navigating what their response to that was at 15 years old and not knowing how to fight back against that, really outside of saying, ‘No, this is just what I want to do.’ And that became a very difficult conversation and situation, navigating that both with my family, with my community, with coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"Five comic book panels depict a young man going to get his hair braided for the first time. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-scaled.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaepernick describes how NBA champion Allen Iverson was an inspiration. \u003ccite>(Kaepernick Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took me, I think, about 14 years before I grew my hair back out. So it’s really to show the impact those moments … can have on a young man, on a young woman, and how that carries with them through life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his motivation for creating a graphic novel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a few reasons. One of the reasons, growing up I wasn’t an avid reader was because I didn’t have stories, or I wasn’t introduced to books that had characters that I related to. It wasn’t until I read \u003cem>We’ll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente\u003c/em>, that I saw another Black person as the lead of a book. It was game changing for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew there were other books out there and other opportunities to be able to find stories, to find narratives that I identified with and that were relatable to me. So what we’re looking to do now is, for younger audiences, give them hopefully characters and stories that they relate to, but also give them pieces of knowledge and situations and try to help them navigate those in ways that I didn’t have access to growing up. And based upon conversations that I’ve had, a lot of other people didn’t as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926041\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM-800x595.png\" alt=\"A double page spread in a comic book depicts a young Black man feeling uncomfortable at a sports game as his white father conducts a conversation with another white man wearing a confederate flag cap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM-800x595.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM-1020x759.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM-768x571.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM-1536x1143.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-11.20.33-AM.png 1538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaepernick doesn’t shy away from how he navigated living in a white family and being in a predominantly white community. \u003ccite>(Kaepernick Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the book ends with him heading off to the University of Nevada, Reno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13905474']We end the story there for a few reasons. One, to make sure that we don’t have a never-ending book, because there’s a lot of story to tell. But the other part of it is we wanted to create a defining moment that younger kids and high school kids could identify with, which is that transition and decision of what to do after high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for me, at that point in time, baseball was the obvious decision for everyone around me. I have multiple offers. I had the MLB come and sit down in my living room and tell me they wanted to draft me. There was an obvious career path there. And I had not a single offer for football at this point, but it was what I loved and what I wanted to do. I made the decision that that’s what I was going to chase, in spite of everyone else telling me I should go a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether the NFL has changed for the better over the past six years\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I haven’t seen any substantial change. I think there is a lot of work to do on that front. Obviously, not playing and being out of the NFL for six years is an indictment on where they are currently at. So I wouldn’t put them at the forefront of goodwill and best of intentions in how they operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether Kaepernick still thinks losing his career was worth the start of a movement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there’s this idea out there that those are mutually exclusive, and I don’t subscribe to that. So I think people are multifaceted and multi-talented and ultimately, that’s something that we want to make sure that message is being sent as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My focus is always on what I can do moving forward. What can I do to change my present and my future? So training at 4:30am to be able to have the opportunity to make a (NFL) comeback? Absolutely. That’s something I do five days a week still. But as far as looking back, that’s not something I do. I’m looking forward to where can I have an impact? What are my passions? And a great example of that is \u003cem>Change The Game\u003c/em>, and this book being able to come out, us being able to share this message with the youth, and it becomes a great opportunity for us to be able to create a future that looks different\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Colin+Kaepernick+describes+how+he+embraced+his+blackness+as+a+teenager&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Navigating everything from family to school can be especially overwhelming as a teenager. When it came to sports, Kaepernick often grappled with whether he was taking the right athletic route to the pros. He ruminated on pursuing baseball — where he had a lot of offers from colleges and received house visits from Major League Baseball personnel — or following his heart and patiently wait for a football scholarship. From anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of sports, Kaepernick wrestled with his identity within his blended adoptive family. Culturally speaking, he felt misunderstood. His adoptive parents were white, and while Kaepernick is biracial, he identified as a Black man and the world around him treated him as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His upbringing and teen crucibles are the source of his new graphic novel, titled \u003cem>Change the Game\u003c/em>, which is written with Eve Ewing and illustrated by Orlando Caicedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926032 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/colin-kaepernick_change-the-game_cover_credit-kaepernick-publishing-_-scholastic_custom-5f978dd3324e937a9894a8a15dc6908809c0d35e-scaled.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And the difficulty with that is being in white culture with Eurocentric beauty standards, navigating what their response to that was at 15 years old and not knowing how to fight back against that, really outside of saying, ‘No, this is just what I want to do.’ And that became a very difficult conversation and situation, navigating that both with my family, with my community, with coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"Five comic book panels depict a young man going to get his hair braided for the first time. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-scaled.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaepernick describes how NBA champion Allen Iverson was an inspiration. \u003ccite>(Kaepernick Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took me, I think, about 14 years before I grew my hair back out. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly two decades ago, with few coaches of color in the NFL, the league knew that something had to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred on by the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Dan Rooney—then the team’s owner and a longtime trailblazer for diversity in the league—the National Football League adopted a policy that now colloquially bears his name. The Rooney Rule, which took effect in 2003, sought to correct inequities at the top of pro football’s hierarchy by requiring teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been nearly 20 years, and the NFL has lost yardage. As the league prepares for the Super Bowl later this month, Mike Tomlin of the Steelers is the only Black head coach. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077365060/washington-commanders-football-team-new-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Commanders\u003c/a>‘ Ron Rivera, who is Latino, and the New York Jets’ Robert Saleh, of Lebanese descent, are the only other nonwhites in top coaching positions among the league’s 32 franchises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Flores, who led the Miami Dolphins to their first back-to-back winning seasons in decades, and David Culley, who had been the Houston Texans’ head coach, were fired in January. Both are Black. Earlier this week, Flores \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33194862/brian-flores-sues-nfl-others-former-miami-dolphins-coach-alleges-racism-hiring-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a class action suit\u003c/a> against the NFL, the Dolphins, the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants. His lawsuit alleges discrimination in his firing and in his interviews for the head coaching jobs with the other teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, news broke that the San Francisco 49ers had fired assistant head coach and tight ends coach Jon Embree, who is Black. Former NFL player Solomon Wilcots reported that the team let Embree go after he refused to take a 60% pay cut. Embree had been with the Niners since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SolomonsWisdom/status/1488931331220377606\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, top coaching positions that opened up at the end of the season are rapidly being filled—by more white candidates. The Bears recently hired Matt Eberflus, the Broncos picked up Nathaniel Hackett and the Giants brought on Brian Daboll. Some Black candidates are thought to be in serious contention for the few slots still up for grabs. But any such hires would barely move the needle on the NFL’s dismal diversity numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908985 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM-800x469.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM-800x469.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM-1020x598.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM-160x94.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM-768x450.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM-1536x901.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.01.07-PM.png 1750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s not the rule, it’s the people\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Doug Williams, the first African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, tells NPR that he would give the Rooney Rule a D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s not the rule that’s not working, it’s the people,” says Williams, who is now senior adviser to the Washington Commanders. “It’s not just football, it’s America as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams and others say they are tired of watching good, qualified head coach candidates of color passed over—year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Eric Bieniemy. He spent eight years as an NFL running back in the 1990s before moving to the sidelines. As offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs, he has helped propel one of the league’s top-ranked teams for the last four seasons. The Chiefs lost by three points in overtime to the Super Bowl-bound Cincinnati Bengals. A Chiefs win would have had the team playing for a championship for the third time in as many years. Yet, in nearly a dozen interviews across the league over the past few years, Bieniemy hasn’t managed to garner a head coaching position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863975']John Feinstein, author of \u003cem>Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports, \u003c/em>tells NPR that in an interview for the book, Bieniemy told him\u003cem> “\u003c/em>some of those guys were legitimately looking at me as a possible head coach. Other guys were just, you know, carrying out their Rooney Rule … obligations, and you can tell, when you walk into the room, which is which.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Caldwell has had greater success in his coaching career—until recently. He’s been on the coaching staff of two Super Bowl champion clubs and was head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2009 to 2011 and the Detroit Lions from 2014 to 2017. Despite his resume, Caldwell has been passed over for head coaching jobs with several franchises since he was let go by the Lions five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, acknowledges that the Rooney Rule has fallen short of its ultimate goal, but he credits the policy with getting more minority candidates in front of hiring panels. “When you have more candidates from different backgrounds that are part of the process and actually are in the room to compete for roles, the opportunity of a diverse candidate getting hired goes up,” he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein says the problem with that thinking is that too often the rule is simply about checking a box to prove compliance. “I think for a lot of the NFL, the Rooney Rule is simply there so they can say, ‘Hey, we interviewed Brian Flores; hey, we interviewed Eric Bieniemy,'” he says. “And until that attitude changes, you can require five [minority candidate] interviews for every opening” and it still won’t make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin watches from the sideline during the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs in January. Tomlin is currently the league’s only Black head coach. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Ed Zurga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>There are few owners of color in the NFL\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The NFL has only two owners of color, Kim Pegula, who is Asian American and co-owns the Buffalo Bills with her billionaire husband, and Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, who was born in Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the owners simply perceive a white coach as the safe choice, says Jodi Balsam, a former counsel for operations and litigation at the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s a single NFL owner out there who thinks to himself, ‘I won’t hire somebody who’s Black,'” Balsam tells NPR. But there are “risk averse” owners, she concedes. “When it comes to hiring at the senior-most levels, they tend to revert to what they’re comfortable with … and they perceive hiring somebody who’s Black as risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13905474']To be sure, the current record on minority hires for the top coaching job is a low-water mark for the league. Things were better at the end of the 2010-2011 season, and again in 2017-2018, with a quarter of the head coaching positions held by minorities. But there have been other lows, too: the Detroit Lions were fined $200,000 for violating the policy soon after it took effect. And nearly a decade later, in 2012, there were no minority hires to fill a slew of head coach vacancies and general manager positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rooney Rule has been tweaked and expanded since it was introduced in 2003. Now it requires teams to interview at least two external minority candidates for head coaching jobs and one external minority candidate for offensive and defensive coordinator positions. After much discussion, a provision was also approved that grants teams who hire minority candidates a pair of future third-round draft picks. And owners agreed to eliminate clauses that prevented coordinators already under contract from interviewing for head coaching jobs with other teams. Top front office jobs, such as general manager, were also included under the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFL commissioner has \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/old-uploads/originals/documents/Proxmire_Issue_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wide latitude\u003c/a> in meting out fines to teams that violate the policy. But whatever penalty might be imposed, it would likely be overshadowed by the public relations hit a franchise would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flores suit and the current round of hiring have placed renewed scrutiny on teams. It comes after the league struggled to respond to “take a knee” protests against police brutality that began in 2016. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially said players had to stand during the national anthem. Years later, he backtracked, offering an implicit apology to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was effectively shut out of the league after becoming the public face of those protests. More recently, Jon Gruden was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/12/1045182590/raiders-coach-jon-gruden-resigns-after-reports-of-derogatory-language-in-emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced to resign\u003c/a> as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after years of emails he’d written surfaced that contained racist, misogynistic and homophobic language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eli Harold (from left), Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest during the national anthem prior to a game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium on Oct. 6, 2016, in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the racial reckoning has heightened everybody’s awareness for this and made it an open discussion,” says Richard Lapchick, the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. “But just discussing it doesn’t change anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The NFL and NBA have different cultures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a study in contrasts, compare the NFL’s record since the Rooney Rule went into effect to what’s happened in the National Basketball Association over the same period. In both leagues, about 70% of the players are Black. But the NFL’s one African American head coach represents barely 3% of those top slots. The NBA this season has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/sports/basketball/nba-black-coaches-diversity.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13 Black head coaches\u003c/a> spread among 30 teams—or 43%. (The NBA’s figure has has been as high as 48% in the 2012-2013 season and as low as 23% in 2020-2021.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many credit the leadership of the late David Stern, who was NBA commissioner for three decades until 2014, for shaping an inclusive culture in the basketball league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern was “very aggressive about letting owners know that he thought minority leadership in the league was very important,” Feinstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13884595']That didn’t happen overnight. And it was helped along by a “very different” relationship between owners and players, says Scott Brooks, the director of research at the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks says the NBA has managed a cultural shift that has so far eluded the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the NFL is focusing on numbers, “the NBA, they’re beyond numbers,” he tells NPR. “They’re thinking about the relationships with the athletes. How this makes the athletes feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it also helps that on-court legend Michael Jordan is among several owners and co-owners of color in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Problems in the NFL pipeline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The road to NFL head coach can be a long and winding one. But there are some common paths. Consider the teams in this year’s Super Bowl: The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Zac Taylor are both white and have similar resumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McVay and Taylor played Division I college football and held a variety of positions on their way to the head coach job — most notably as offensive coordinators, a position widely seen as a conduit to the top coaching job. In recent weeks, too, two of the three hires for head coaching positions, Hackett and Daboll, previously worked as offensive coordinators. Notably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/nfl-owners-have-problem-coaches-color/604771/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few minorities hold key offensive coordinator positions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those coaches who are former players, more quarterbacks—from either the college or the pro level—have managed to make the switch and get on a career path to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans, however, have long been discouraged from becoming quarterbacks—a position that has traditionally been dominated by white players. “In the ’60s and ’70s, almost every Black quarterback coming out of college was told to change positions,” says Feinstein\u003cem>. “\u003c/em>The excuse usually was because you’re fast and the underlying notion was, well, because you’re not smart enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s changing, though, with an influx of Black starting quarterbacks in the league, says Brooks. “Will that give us more Blacks and nonwhites in these other positions? … That remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beane, the NFL’s diversity officer, is optimistic that the recent expansion of the Rooney Rule will have an impact on the number of minorities on the sidelines. “I have to be hopeful,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Rae Alexandra. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To be sure, the current record on minority hires for the top coaching job is a low-water mark for the league. Things were better at the end of the 2010-2011 season, and again in 2017-2018, with a quarter of the head coaching positions held by minorities. But there have been other lows, too: the Detroit Lions were fined $200,000 for violating the policy soon after it took effect. And nearly a decade later, in 2012, there were no minority hires to fill a slew of head coach vacancies and general manager positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rooney Rule has been tweaked and expanded since it was introduced in 2003. Now it requires teams to interview at least two external minority candidates for head coaching jobs and one external minority candidate for offensive and defensive coordinator positions. After much discussion, a provision was also approved that grants teams who hire minority candidates a pair of future third-round draft picks. And owners agreed to eliminate clauses that prevented coordinators already under contract from interviewing for head coaching jobs with other teams. Top front office jobs, such as general manager, were also included under the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFL commissioner has \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/old-uploads/originals/documents/Proxmire_Issue_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wide latitude\u003c/a> in meting out fines to teams that violate the policy. But whatever penalty might be imposed, it would likely be overshadowed by the public relations hit a franchise would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flores suit and the current round of hiring have placed renewed scrutiny on teams. It comes after the league struggled to respond to “take a knee” protests against police brutality that began in 2016. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially said players had to stand during the national anthem. Years later, he backtracked, offering an implicit apology to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was effectively shut out of the league after becoming the public face of those protests. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That didn’t happen overnight. And it was helped along by a “very different” relationship between owners and players, says Scott Brooks, the director of research at the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks says the NBA has managed a cultural shift that has so far eluded the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the NFL is focusing on numbers, “the NBA, they’re beyond numbers,” he tells NPR. “They’re thinking about the relationships with the athletes. How this makes the athletes feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it also helps that on-court legend Michael Jordan is among several owners and co-owners of color in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Problems in the NFL pipeline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The road to NFL head coach can be a long and winding one. But there are some common paths. Consider the teams in this year’s Super Bowl: The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Zac Taylor are both white and have similar resumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McVay and Taylor played Division I college football and held a variety of positions on their way to the head coach job — most notably as offensive coordinators, a position widely seen as a conduit to the top coaching job. In recent weeks, too, two of the three hires for head coaching positions, Hackett and Daboll, previously worked as offensive coordinators. Notably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/nfl-owners-have-problem-coaches-color/604771/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few minorities hold key offensive coordinator positions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those coaches who are former players, more quarterbacks—from either the college or the pro level—have managed to make the switch and get on a career path to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans, however, have long been discouraged from becoming quarterbacks—a position that has traditionally been dominated by white players. “In the ’60s and ’70s, almost every Black quarterback coming out of college was told to change positions,” says Feinstein\u003cem>. “\u003c/em>The excuse usually was because you’re fast and the underlying notion was, well, because you’re not smart enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s changing, though, with an influx of Black starting quarterbacks in the league, says Brooks. “Will that give us more Blacks and nonwhites in these other positions? … That remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you had any questions about where Colin Kaepernick’s activist spirit originated, a look at Netflix’s new limited series, \u003cem>Colin in Black and White,\u003c/em> removes all doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Kaepernick is known as the ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose decision to kneel during the national anthem in 2016 to protest racial injustice inspired others and kicked off years of conflicts. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/49ers/colin-kaepernicks-nfl-absence-notable-despite-roger-goodells-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">became a free agent\u003c/a> in 2017 and remains unsigned by an NFL team, a situation many analysts attributed to political blowback from the controversy sparked by his protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>Colin in Black and White\u003c/em> makes the case that he’s been fighting those kinds of battles since he was in middle school, facing down clueless coaches, oblivious friends and well-intentioned white parents who adopted a biracial kid but seemed to have little idea how to handle his desire to embrace Blackness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej42P9FTwZg\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Storytelling subtle as a sledgehammer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Created by Kaepernick with superstar director/executive producer Ava DuVernay, \u003cem>Colin in Black and White \u003c/em>delivers its message with storytelling subtle as a sledgehammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focused on scenes in the former NFL quarterback’s life stretching from eighth grade to his last year of high school, the series is a scripted drama spiced by onscreen narration from the real-life Kaepernick, emphasizing his struggle to be the kind of athlete—and man—that he chooses to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaepernick sets the tone early, speaking ominously while visual images morph from Black professional athletes examined by white coaches and team doctors to slaves getting a once over from white men selling them at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s being established is a power dynamic,” says Kaepernick, clad in all black, pacing through the frame. “Before they put you on the field, teams poke and prod and examine you. Searching for any defect…no boundary respected. No dignity left intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_107203']The show tends to make its points over and over, with Kaepernick’s voiceovers explaining things that also play out in scripted scenes. It can make the show feel inconsistent; at times, the narration expands your understanding with exciting looks at Black history. In other moments, it just emphasizes something you already know. Ditto with Kaepernick’s performances, which are sometimes passionate and emotional, other times stilted and a little heavy handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series itself often feels like a not-so-passive aggressive swipe at the authority figures—all seemingly white—who doubted his goals and made it tougher for him to be himself, including his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Played by Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker, Rick and Teresa Kaepernick are well-meaning white folk who listen to Christian rock on long car rides and dress like all their clothes came from T.J. Maxx and Marshalls. They adopted Colin as a baby in Wisconsin and moved to Turlock, California—another place, the former NFL star notes wryly, known for dairy farming and a scarcity of Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they clearly love Kaepernick, his parents are also shown as clueless and a bit bewildered by his efforts to connect with Black people and Black culture—from trying to wear cornrows in his hair like his basketball hero Allen Iverson, to taking a Black girl to a formal dance in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905480\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/colin-parents-2-fab906090c24fceb7110f28bc5a60acc9355ab77-2-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary-Louise Parker and Nick Offerman play Teresa and Rick Kaepernick in Netflix’s ‘Colin in Black and White.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their responses can be inconsistent. In the show’s first episode, Teresa responds to her son’s efforts to get his hair braided into cornrows by taking him to a barbershop recommended by her Black co-workers. But when they visit the stylist’s home a few months later for a touch-up, Teresa gets unnerved by the neighborhood and her son’s love for the soul food they share with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, a harsh, white baseball coach—and they all seem to be harsh, white coaches here—demands Kaepernick cut his hair to stay on the team. It’s a position backed by his parents, who don’t seem to understand or respect the obvious: his hairstyle choice is an example of a young man of color, reaching toward his Blackness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_110334']“You look like a thug!” Teresa says to him, finally. Young Kaepernick is soon back at Supercuts, getting his Iverson-inspired locks unbraided and cut down. Actor Jaden Michael, who plays Kaepernick with a bright-eyed optimism that helps ease some of the series’ heavy handedness, does a great job communicating his sense of suppressed confusion, betrayal and anger all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew it wasn’t right,” Kaepernick himself says in a voiceover, “but I didn’t have the knowledge, wisdom or language to fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a more subtle show, the scene with Teresa would be enough to communicate the impact of that pejorative—thug—flung at a young Black man who just wanted to look like his hero. But Kaepernick also speaks on the history of the term as a coded racial epithet, re-explaining something in a way that feels a little on the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other scenes which don’t make his parents look great, including a moment when Teresa hides a photo of Kaepernick posing with a Black girl he took to the formal dance, while urging him to date the white daughter of a friend. It makes you wonder if they ever realized the impact of such actions on their young Black son, and why they don’t seem to talk to him in-depth about race at a crucial moment in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A character who chooses to be unapologetically Black\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What I found most compelling about \u003cem>Colin in Black and White\u003c/em> is something I wish the show had spent more time exploring: Kaepernick’s decision to choose being Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/colin-jaden-as-kap_wide-c24344aa0f990c5b29d91738fa6a726cea84c0ee-800x449.jpe\" alt=\"A Black teenage boy with cornrows looks up, half-smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaden Michael plays a young Colin Kaepernick in Netflix’s ‘Colin in Black and White.’ \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After all, as the TV series depicts, he’s in a situation where many people around him—coaches, friends and family—don’t understand his thirst for Black culture. Other than friends at school, he doesn’t seem to have any other Black people in his life. He could have easily chosen to reflect white culture more in his life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colin in Black and White \u003c/em>seems to present this choice as a given—a natural thing for Kaepernick to look up to Black sports stars, seek to date Black women and embrace hip hop culture. But for him, and many biracial kids like him—including the former President of the United States—self-identifying as a Black man can be an affirmative choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in today’s increasingly multiracial society, it’s a choice more young people are negotiating everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881679']There are moments in this series when his parents make it plain that they wish he would make a different decision. “How long do you think this is going to last?” Teresa asks her son in an exasperated tone as they arrive at the hairstylist’s home. “The braids?” he asks, sounding confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of it,” she says, clearly unnerved by the world her son is eager to step into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a show that emphasizes so many of its points about race so directly, it’s odd that this isn’t talked about more. Later episodes show Kaepernick asserting himself a different way; refusing a slew of opportunities to pursue a career in Major League Baseball to follow his dream of being a football quarterback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the series details all the rejections he got from college football programs convinced he wasn’t big enough for the position, the drama here wasn’t quite so suspenseful. We know he eventually makes it to the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, \u003cem>Colin in Black & White\u003c/em> demonstrates why Kaepernick has become the principled man he is today. It’s a very good series which humanizes a courageous athlete who has too often been belittled and misrepresented by ignorant ideologues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little more subtlety and a slightly wider lens could have turned this very good program into a truly great one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Netflix%27s+%27Colin+in+Black+and+White%27+shows+a+star+athlete+reaching+toward+Blackness&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You look like a thug!” Teresa says to him, finally. Young Kaepernick is soon back at Supercuts, getting his Iverson-inspired locks unbraided and cut down. Actor Jaden Michael, who plays Kaepernick with a bright-eyed optimism that helps ease some of the series’ heavy handedness, does a great job communicating his sense of suppressed confusion, betrayal and anger all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew it wasn’t right,” Kaepernick himself says in a voiceover, “but I didn’t have the knowledge, wisdom or language to fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a more subtle show, the scene with Teresa would be enough to communicate the impact of that pejorative—thug—flung at a young Black man who just wanted to look like his hero. But Kaepernick also speaks on the history of the term as a coded racial epithet, re-explaining something in a way that feels a little on the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other scenes which don’t make his parents look great, including a moment when Teresa hides a photo of Kaepernick posing with a Black girl he took to the formal dance, while urging him to date the white daughter of a friend. It makes you wonder if they ever realized the impact of such actions on their young Black son, and why they don’t seem to talk to him in-depth about race at a crucial moment in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A character who chooses to be unapologetically Black\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What I found most compelling about \u003cem>Colin in Black and White\u003c/em> is something I wish the show had spent more time exploring: Kaepernick’s decision to choose being Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/colin-jaden-as-kap_wide-c24344aa0f990c5b29d91738fa6a726cea84c0ee-800x449.jpe\" alt=\"A Black teenage boy with cornrows looks up, half-smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaden Michael plays a young Colin Kaepernick in Netflix’s ‘Colin in Black and White.’ \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After all, as the TV series depicts, he’s in a situation where many people around him—coaches, friends and family—don’t understand his thirst for Black culture. Other than friends at school, he doesn’t seem to have any other Black people in his life. He could have easily chosen to reflect white culture more in his life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colin in Black and White \u003c/em>seems to present this choice as a given—a natural thing for Kaepernick to look up to Black sports stars, seek to date Black women and embrace hip hop culture. But for him, and many biracial kids like him—including the former President of the United States—self-identifying as a Black man can be an affirmative choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in today’s increasingly multiracial society, it’s a choice more young people are negotiating everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 8:30am ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you saw Bud Light’s “Legends” ad during the Super Bowl—the one featuring everyone from Cedric the Entertainer to Post Malone in an \u003cem>Avengers: Endgame\u003c/em>-style gathering of the brand’s biggest stars—this element stood out like the Bud Knight at a square dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No masks. No social distancing. No signs at all of the pandemic as a gang of beloved mascots crowded together to make sure football fans have their Bud Light on Super Bowl Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did talk about, ‘Should everyone be wearing a mask [in the spot]?’ ” said Andy Goeler, vice president of marketing for Bud Light, when I talked to him well before the game. “But we felt the spot was a bit surreal and we had the ability to not have people wearing masks and kind of [avoid] reminding people of the time we’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfsO49AfzI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sort of escapism stood out in the flood of commercials airing in the Super Bowl, priced up to $5.5 million for 30 seconds of airtime. Aside from a few spots, including ads from Ford and Bass Pro Shops, most commercials tiptoed around references to the pandemic, lockdowns or political instability, as if America was still a little too brittle to really face the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, despite that avoidance, the roster of Super Bowl ads never seemed to really cut loose in celebration. John Travolta dancing awkwardly on TikTok; Anthony Anderson playing touch football with his mom; a CGI Samuel L. Jackson getting swallowed up by a fish—too many of the moments felt weird and self-conscious, unsure of how to make a nation laugh quite yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an inspired bit of head-fakery, some brands drew big headlines for opting out of ads inside the Big Game—like Budweiser and Pepsi—but they still found other ways to stay in. Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser Busch, bankrolled commercials promoting itself and brands like Bud Light and Michelob Ultra; Pepsi famously sponsors the halftime show. 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He gets the dad in a fight with musclebound superstar Dave Bautista (“I’m pretty sure you could take Bautista down,” Morgan tells the dad before he gets knocked out) and shoves the family out of an airplane wearing backpacks saying, “I’m pretty sure these are parachutes.” Best of all, the company had two ads featuring Morgan tormenting two different families, airing at different points during the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worst hypocrisy from a sports league: The NFL’s “Inspire Change”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad itself is inspiring, featuring quotes from former San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson’s Hall of Fame speech, played over images of civil rights protests and a graphic noting that the NFL is giving $250 million to fight systemic racism. But the league still hasn’t apologized or publicly made amends with Colin Kaepernick, the onetime San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose kneeling during the National Anthem starting in 2016 to call attention to police brutality ignited a huge controversy. Kaepernick became a free agent and remains unsigned by any team, while the NFL tries to pose like an ally, avoiding any memory that it failed to support a player actually trying to fight systemic racism when it really mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most desperate use of an iconic rock star: Jeep’s “The Middle”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We see his worn cowboy boots and hear his rough-hewn voice before we see him. But there’s no mistaking Bruce Springsteen’s world-weary words as he pleads with viewers to “come meet here in the middle.” Decked out in a simple coat, driving around an old Jeep, Springsteen conjures every ounce of his working-class hero legend to deliver a message aimed at bringing left and right together one month after a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building. “We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground,” he intones, driving through deserted rural areas and a snow-covered city center. 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Amid shots of a woman dyeing her hair pink and cowboy hat-wearing seniors sharing a joke at a bar, an announcer asks, “Don’t think you’re an investor?” Couldn’t help thinking it would have been cooler if they had asked, “Want to stick it to The Man while helping the Average Joe take over the stock market?” I would have signed up for \u003cem>that\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most troubling ode to the side hustle: Squarespace’s “5 to 9”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much as we all love Dolly Parton, she may have crossed a line on this one, retooling her upbeat hit about surviving the workday, “9-to-5,” into a chirpy take on the depressing reality of modern workplaces. It’s a trippy tribute to those who use the website-building company Squarespace to promote the side business they really care about when the clock strikes 5 p.m. on their soul-crushing day job. 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Way to have your cake—nodding to a mysterious event that canceled air travel, professional sports and family gatherings—without actually uttering the word “pandemic” or showing a single face covering (or telling us what seltzer lemonade actually is). That’s masterful marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most bizarre use of a celebrity, Part 2: Doritos’ “Flat Matthew”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the year we’ve all just had, it irritated me a bit to see hunky, successful movie star Matthew McConaughey moping around, looking (and feeling) flat as a cardboard cutout until he eats the new Doritos 3D Crunch and pops back to full size—inside a vending machine. (I’m thinking maybe it was the check from PepsiCo’s Frito Lay that helped him feel better?) As if a guy with abs like that would get anywhere near something so obviously fattening. 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He also created a community poem, “Running For Your Life,” based on submissions to NPR about what it means to be Black and safe in America today that you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862339935/running-for-your-life-a-community-poem-for-ahmaud-arbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why he wrote this book of poems \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13889659 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb-160x228.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">I think the weight of being Black was too much to carry for me for a long time. I didn’t know how to find answers to assert myself to do something. And then a friend of mine sent me a quote by Toni Morrison that said this is precisely the time when artists go to work. There’s no time for despair. No place for self pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language, that is how civilizations heal. And so I wrote. I used my words to scream, to shout, to sort of lift up my voice to shine a little light for the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to write this as a reminder to Black children and families to remember their humanity. I wanted to write it as sort of a wake-up call to white Americans to acknowledge and know the truth, to fight against a proclivity to maintain the hierarchy, whether conscious or not. I think of these poems as sort of negro spirituals in a way—which are timeless in their comfort and their guidance and their roots in praise houses and ring shouts and other informal gatherings of enslaved Africans who needed to express their sorrows and their hopes, wading in the water. \u003cem>Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Steal away to Jesus\u003c/em>. That’s what these poems are for me. They are psalms and balms for my soul and hopefully for our souls so that we can get on with the business of making the world a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the parallels he sees in James Baldwin’s \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Report From Occupied Territory, \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/report-occupied-territory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an essay written in 1966 about police brutality\u003c/a>, and what the nation is going through today—and on his own writing in this tradition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think [it’s] in the sense that Baldwin was crying out. It was a plea for our humanity, for the humanity of Black people in particular, of oppressed people in general, to be recognized. I don’t know if I’m writing a plea more so that I’m making a demand and that I’m saying we’ve got to reclaim our own humanity and cannot allow ourselves to be defined by other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wound, the wound has been here. The wound has been here since Africans first arrived on these shores. These episodes of police killings and brutality—they’ve existed for 400 years. I wrote this to remind us of the tragedy, while also showcasing the triumph. The only way for us to do things better in the future is to understand what we did wrong in the past. I do think that we are at a critical boiling point of resistance in America and you see whites and Blacks and all Americans coming together to stand up for what’s right. We’ve got to all say that we are fired up and we can’t take no more and I think that’s what’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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Whiz Ward, an Oakland native and member of the music collective HNRL, pointed out the irony of Olbermann and others praising Eminem, a white rapper, as the best thing that’s ever happened to a black art form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A white rapper makes a statement about a white supremacist president then is deemed the ONLY good thing about a historically black art-form? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/y3roJIRuIt\">https://t.co/y3roJIRuIt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— WHIZ WARD (@yopotnawhiz) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yopotnawhiz/status/918008735003394049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, widespread praise for Eminem’s freestyle at a time when Kaepernick is blacklisted from the NFL shows that there are major racial disparities in how the public receives criticism against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because there can never be too many Trump diss tracks in your playlist, let’s look back at some of the best anti-Trump rap songs that’ve come out since he announced his presidential bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/WkZ5e94QnWk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/j9ja3i9u2Og\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/v0cHeM6C7_k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/rhO0Exhmpdg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/j3Sj6VKYt4I\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>xactly one year ago I took a photo of a mural of Colin Kaepernick. The mural, located on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland but now painted over, was inscribed with the words “We Got Your Back.” I posted the photo as I walked home from work, and it quickly became one of my most popular, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/779138884269592577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retweeted over 2,400 times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder how the mural would’ve been received if the words “We Got Your Back” weren’t a part of it; instead, just Kaepernick. I mean, even a year ago, we all knew what he stood for — or rather, knelt for. His name has become synonymous with a silent protest, one that’s both ruffled feathers and inspired people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, after this past weekend, the protest has grown to involve Steph, Stevie, LeBron, dozens of other athletes and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-national-anthem-singers-at-two-different-nfl-games-took-a-knee-on-sunday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those who sing the national anthem\u003c/a>. It has spread far beyond the Bay Area, and is currently dominating the national conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with all that conversation, Kaepernick’s original goal — to protest police brutality and the unfair treatment of people of color — is lost among the chatter. Pundits, team owners and politicians have talked and talked and talked, and what has it gotten us? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GillianA/status/912497054454370305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollow signs of solidarity from Hollywood\u003c/a> that miss the point, or the NFL, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkg64g45yeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new commercial\u003c/a>, promoting a vague sense of “unity.” (This week’s \u003cem>Sports Illustrated\u003c/em> is dedicated to the protest, with 10 athletes, coaches, and owners featured on the cover. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SInow/status/912617770734338048/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaepernick isn’t one of them\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes me think that Kaepernick’s on to something: What if we didn’t use the oppressor’s language to protest the oppression?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Stevie Wonder and his son Kwame Morris onstage during the 2017 Global Citizen Festival: For Freedom. For Justice. For All. in Central Park on September 23, 2017 in New York City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevie Wonder and his son Kwame Morris onstage during the 2017 Global Citizen Festival: For Freedom. For Justice. For All. in Central Park on September 23, 2017 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>eople of color have been fighting white supremacy for years. Organizing. Protesting. Boycotting. “Fighting the power!” John Carlos and Tommie Smith did it with a raised fist during the 1968 Olympics. A silent shot fired. Their protest, and Kaepernick’s alike, make me think: to conquer white supremacy, you can’t use the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the language the “American Contract” was written in, signed by John Hancock and friends. White men who believed they were supreme. White men who were elected, chosen, ordained to govern the masses — that’s who made rules for this land. They spoke a language that the uneducated weren’t privy to, a language that women didn’t have access to, a language that enslaved Africans, who could be killed for reading and writing. English.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">What if we didn’t use the oppressor’s language to protest the oppression?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There have been amendments, alterations, and changes to both the contract and the language, but the signed document remains. And if we’re going to do away with white supremacy, and create a world where people have equal access to the pursuit of happiness, we’re going to need a new contract. We’re going to need new signatures on that contract. We’re going to need that contract to be a byproduct of a new way of thinking. And it’s going to have to be written in a new language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new “American contract” is going to have to be radical — something the world has never seen. I can’t even fathom what full equality would look like. For the disabled and bisexual, for Muslim and Mexican, for educated and incarcerated, for every ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No stereotypes. No racism. No judgment. No supreme beings. No hierarchy. Just people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equality”? Maybe that’s not the word for it. Maybe the English language doesn’t have a word to express the contract I’m striving for. Maybe we have to create it, this new language that isn’t rooted in white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Houston of the Kansas City Chiefs takes a knee during the National Anthem before a game against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sept. 24, 2017 in Carson, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-768x456.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-960x570.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-240x143.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-375x223.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Houston of the Kansas City Chiefs takes a knee during the National Anthem before a game against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sept. 24, 2017 in Carson, California. \u003ccite>(Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“T\u003c/span>he basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s along the lines of the kind of contract I’d want. It’d be wonderful to see it apply to all Americans, regardless of skin color, religion, sexual preference, disability, or any other defining factor. And if the above quote were to come out of the mouth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jeffsessio754009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">someone other than Jeff Sessions\u003c/a> – who was once denied a federal judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee for literally being too racist, and who garnered the ire of none other than Corretta Scott King, the author, activist, civil rights leader, and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. — that would make it a bit more convincing as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, while the 240-year battle continues to prove that all men and women are equal, as the American contract states, we’re also waiting for Colin Kaepernick to get a new NFL contract. Because he shouldn’t be penalized for using his voice — or rather, protesting in silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not fully clear on how to do this. But I am clear on one thing: if we’re going to create an equal society by fighting and eventually ending white supremacy — the thing that has been ingrained in America since before the formation of the union — we’re going to have to acknowledge its existence, not just in policing, politics, art and sports, but in something as mundane as language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re going to have to change the way we talk about it. And we’re going to have to renegotiate this contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland, and a weekly columnist for KQED Arts. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes me think that Kaepernick’s on to something: What if we didn’t use the oppressor’s language to protest the oppression?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Stevie Wonder and his son Kwame Morris onstage during the 2017 Global Citizen Festival: For Freedom. For Justice. For All. in Central Park on September 23, 2017 in New York City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Stevie-Wonder-kneeling-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevie Wonder and his son Kwame Morris onstage during the 2017 Global Citizen Festival: For Freedom. For Justice. For All. in Central Park on September 23, 2017 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>eople of color have been fighting white supremacy for years. Organizing. Protesting. Boycotting. “Fighting the power!” John Carlos and Tommie Smith did it with a raised fist during the 1968 Olympics. A silent shot fired. Their protest, and Kaepernick’s alike, make me think: to conquer white supremacy, you can’t use the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the language the “American Contract” was written in, signed by John Hancock and friends. White men who believed they were supreme. White men who were elected, chosen, ordained to govern the masses — that’s who made rules for this land. They spoke a language that the uneducated weren’t privy to, a language that women didn’t have access to, a language that enslaved Africans, who could be killed for reading and writing. English.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">What if we didn’t use the oppressor’s language to protest the oppression?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There have been amendments, alterations, and changes to both the contract and the language, but the signed document remains. And if we’re going to do away with white supremacy, and create a world where people have equal access to the pursuit of happiness, we’re going to need a new contract. We’re going to need new signatures on that contract. We’re going to need that contract to be a byproduct of a new way of thinking. And it’s going to have to be written in a new language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new “American contract” is going to have to be radical — something the world has never seen. I can’t even fathom what full equality would look like. For the disabled and bisexual, for Muslim and Mexican, for educated and incarcerated, for every ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No stereotypes. No racism. No judgment. No supreme beings. No hierarchy. Just people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equality”? Maybe that’s not the word for it. Maybe the English language doesn’t have a word to express the contract I’m striving for. Maybe we have to create it, this new language that isn’t rooted in white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Houston of the Kansas City Chiefs takes a knee during the National Anthem before a game against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sept. 24, 2017 in Carson, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-768x456.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-960x570.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-240x143.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-375x223.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Knee.NFL_-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Houston of the Kansas City Chiefs takes a knee during the National Anthem before a game against the Los Angeles Chargers, Sept. 24, 2017 in Carson, California. \u003ccite>(Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“T\u003c/span>he basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s along the lines of the kind of contract I’d want. It’d be wonderful to see it apply to all Americans, regardless of skin color, religion, sexual preference, disability, or any other defining factor. And if the above quote were to come out of the mouth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jeffsessio754009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">someone other than Jeff Sessions\u003c/a> – who was once denied a federal judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee for literally being too racist, and who garnered the ire of none other than Corretta Scott King, the author, activist, civil rights leader, and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. — that would make it a bit more convincing as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, while the 240-year battle continues to prove that all men and women are equal, as the American contract states, we’re also waiting for Colin Kaepernick to get a new NFL contract. Because he shouldn’t be penalized for using his voice — or rather, protesting in silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not fully clear on how to do this. 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