Colin Kaepernick: Does still play football| Wife| Black and white

Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and former football quarterback. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League.

Colin Kaepernick: Does still play football| Wife| Black and white

Does still play football:

Kaepernick became the 49ers’ starter in 2012 and held that role for four more years. … Kaepernick became a free agent in March 2017 after opting out of his 49ers contract and has not played in the NFL since.

He became a free agent in March 2017 after opting out of his 49ers contract and has not played in the NFL since. He and his former teammate Eric Reid eventually filed a grievance against the NFL, claiming that team owners colluded to keep them unsigned for protesting. Kaepernick and Reid settled their collusion grievance in February 2019.

While reflecting on Kaepernick’s protests, Smith said “the country wasn’t ready” for the important message the quarterback wanted to send.

Wife:

Colin Kaepernick and his girlfriend, Nessa Diab, were first linked in 2015, but they didn’t confirm their relationship until February 2016 when they attended a Valentine’s Day charity event together. TMZ reported at the time that Colin and Nessa, who made their relationship official at the Valentine’s Hearts fundraiser benefiting Camp Taylor, had been dating for “months” before their romance went public.

In October of that same year, Colin and Nessa founded the Know Your Rights Camp, an organization that “advances the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities and elevates the next generation of change leaders,” according to their website.

Black and white:

Netflix’s Colin in Black & White feels like it was crafted as a direct response to that line of thinking. The six-episode limited series created by Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay details how a prodigious young athlete’s journey through high school led him to professional sports in a way that inseparably linked his career choice to the unjust reality of life in the United States as a non-white person.

Most importantly: Kaepernick is our narrator. He’s telling us his own story, and he’s also contextualizing that very personal look back against the history of the Black experience in the United States.