Former NFL player Jack Brewer has slammed Colin Kaepernick for comparing a football draft to slavery, saying 'he has an evil, anti-Ame...
Former NFL player Jack Brewer has slammed Colin Kaepernick for comparing a football draft to slavery, saying 'he has an evil, anti-American spirit' and that his Netflix special should be 'illegal'.
In his documentary Colin in Black & White, Kaepernick likened the NFL's player selection meeting to slavery, with one scene showing players being paraded in front of coaches and scouts before they're seen in shackles on an auction block.
Fellow footballer Brewer – who played for the Minnesota Vikings, the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Arizona Cardinals – said Kaepernick's comments were harmful to minorities.
'This new Colin Kaepernick doctrine that's penetrating the minds and hearts of so many of our underserved black kids is the single largest threat to black men in the United States of America,' Brewer told Fox News.
'Because right now, folks are thinking that they're victims are living in the most prosperous the most opportunity [sic] in any country in the world.'
In his Netflix special Colin in Black & White, ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick likened the NFL's player selection meeting to slavery
One scene shows players being paraded in front of coaches and scouts before they're seen in shackles on an auction block.
Kaepernick says that what coaches and scouts don't want players to understand that the NFL Draft and training camp establishes a 'power dynamic' and is an invasive process
Kaepernick - who earned an average annual salary of $19 million - became a controversial figure in the NFL in 2016, when he started kneeling during the playing of the US national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice while playing for the San Francisco 49ers.
A clip from the new special, released on October 29, Kaepernick says that what coaches and scouts don't want players to understand that the NFL Draft and training camp establishes a 'power dynamic'.
'Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance,' Kaepernick says of NFL owners and coaches while walking through a staged NFL practice field.
'No boundary respect,' Kaepernick continued. 'No dignity left intact.'
Then a line of NFL prospects, all of them black and who are played by paid actors, walk by Kaepernick before altering into slaves for sale at an auction with shackles on while white slave owners examine and place bids on them.
He said during a Fox News interview that 'it's sick and disgusting or think that even Netflix - someone that big and popular - would even put something out like that'
Brewer - a staunch supporter of former president Donald Trump - said he found the analogy harmful to 'vulnerable' black children.
He added that many of those kids don't have father figures and are behind on reading and math proficiency.
Brewer said Kaepernick ought to instead be promoting positivity to impressionable children.
'He doesn't have that spirit in him. He has an evil anti-American spirit. And it's sick and disgusting or think that even Netflix - someone that big and popular - would even put something out like that to penetrate the mind of these.
'It should be illegal.'
Kaepernick became a controversial figure in the NFL in 2016, when he started kneeling during the playing of the US national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice while playing for the San Francisco 49ers
He wasn't the only one to criticize Kaepernick's comments.
As the clip from the Netflix special went viral, the athlete was blasted on social media.
One user tagged Kaepernick's account and wrote: 'God @Kaepernick7 you are the absolute lowest of the low. this racially-divisive bs is exactly what people are starting to wake up to now for what overwhelmingly the large part is: manufactured by ppl like you. im so thankful that your pathetic ass never got back into the @NFL.'
Another user went as far as calling Kaepernick an imbecile in his post:
'Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine, which allows all players of all races a voluntary chance to become multi-millionaires, to slavery,' Outkick.com writer Clay Travis wrote.
'Anyone still defending this imbecile lacks a functional brain.'
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