Colin Kaepernick accuses his white adoptive parents of ‘perpetuating racism’
Colin Kaepernick says his white adoptive parents were “racist” because as a teenager they told him the corn rows didn’t look professional.
- Kaepernick was adopted at five weeks by Rick and Teresa Kaepernick
- They had two biological children, but had lost two children in a row to heart defect.
- Kaepernick complains he went through ‘some very troublesome things’
Colin Kaepernick accused his white adoptive parents of “perpetuating racism” by telling him as a teenager that the corn rows looked unprofessional and says he had to experience “very troublesome things” growing up in their house.
Kaepernick was adopted as a baby by Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. They moved to Turlock, California when he was four years old.
They had two biological children, but lost two children to congenital heart defects.
Kaepernick, a former NFL player who led the knee change, says that while he knew “they loved him,” there were “very troublesome things” he “went through.”
Speaking to CBS to promote his new graphic comedy memoir, Kaepernick gave the example of his mother telling him that corn rows were unprofessional.
Kaepernick’s parents, Rick and Teresa, adopted him when he was five weeks old. They already had two biological children but had lost two children to congenital heart defects.
speaking to CBS To promote his new graphic comic memoir, Kaepernick gave the example of his mother telling him that corn rows were unprofessional.
Kaepernick as a high school football star
He claims that she told him he “looked like a little thug” when he showed him the hairstyle.
‘I know my parents loved me.
“But there were still very troublesome things that I went through,” he said.
Kaepernick’s parents have not publicly responded or commented on his crusade against racism.
In a gushing article on ESPN before he launched his move against the NFL, Kaepernick’s parents spoke of their joy at bringing him home.
His father, who was a business executive at a cheese company for much of his career, said: “Everything went very well.
‘I know it’s not usually that easy with adoptions, but it was.
‘Colin never had any adoption problems.
“The only difference is that his skin is a little darker than ours.”
Kaepernick with his father, who was an executive at a food company.
Kaepernick’s biological mother abandoned him when he was five weeks old. she was 19
His mother said: ‘I will never forget that day.
“They brought him in a baby carrier and put him down. The biological mother was there.
‘I looked at her and she nodded and I just took him out of the vehicle. By the time I picked it up, I just cried.
‘We gave him a big hug. And she needed a couple more minutes. And then we left.
His biological mother was 19 years old and decided to leave him when he was five weeks old.
Kaepernick attended John H. Pitman High School, a public high school in Turlock, where he was a football star.
He then studied at the University of Nevada at Reno on a football scholarship before graduating in 2011. He joined the San Francisco 49ers after graduation.
In 2016, Kaepernick launched an anti-racism movement when he began taking a knee during the national anthem at NFL games in protest against police brutality towards black men. He angered the league and others, who said it was disrespectful. Others adopted it around the world.
Kaepernick and his mother, Teresa, in a social media image shared before their crusade against racism.