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Home › News › Colin Kaepernick Says Adoptive Mother Said His Cornrows Made Him Look 'Like A Little Thug' During Childhood News Colin Kaepernick Says Adoptive Mother Said His Cornrows Made Him Look 'Like A Little Thug' During Childhood By Monique Jones • Mar 10, 2023
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In a new interview, Colin Kaepernick spoke about some problematic childhood instances, including his adoptive mother saying his cornrows made him look like “a little thug.”
CNN reported that while talking with CBS journalist Adriana Diaz for a Thursday interview, the former NFL player said his adoptive white parents perpetuated racism within the home. “I know my parents loved me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through,” Kaepernick told Diaz.
1. “I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your home, and how you move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated,” he said.
Those moments included his mother thinking he looked “not professional” and “like a little thug” when he had cornrows as a child. Kaepernick said, “Those become spaces where it’s like, ‘How do I navigate this situation now?’ But it also has informed why I have my hair long today.”
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I don’t give the slightest crap about some mediocre QB who’s been washed up for years and years.
Assuming this is true (big leap)...
When I see cornrows or dreadlocks or anything like that my first thought is “how do they wash their hair”?
When I grew my hair as a teenage musician my mother didn’t want her friends to see me. I’ve had lots of things affect me in life, but that wasn’t a big one.
Moms know
I was told to "go wash that goop out of your hair and try to look less like you stuck your finger in an electric socket".
Oh the trauma!
Adoptive white parents "perpetuated racism" by adopting him and giving him a safe environment and consistent structure. Bigots!
vs his biological mother who abandoned him.
Looks like some sort of fungus growth ...
Reminds me of Obama’s White grandmother - who “was the primary financial provider for Obama’s upbringing and education during his formative years in Hawaii....her sanlary funded Obama’s tuition at the prestigious Punahou School and supported the household where he lived from age 10 to 18.”
He insultingly referred to her as “typical White person.”
Note to Colin Kaepernick: Your 15 minutes of radical fame have long passed, you are irrelevant and forgotten.
Not buying it. How does a child afford cornrows if mom is against it?
A dead horse stinks forever. There is no time limit.
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT HE WILL EVER GROW UP
She shouldn’t have taken the sorry SOB in, he is creepy beyond belief. Nice lady, sorry ungrateful ‘b..word’ kid.
“HAIR-DO’S”???????
MORE LIKE “HAIR DON’T’S”
THEY ARE UGLY
Well, maybe they did. 🙄
DID WE EVER LEARN WHO FUNDED BARRY’S TUITION AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE IN CALIF-—WHERE HE WAS ENROLLED AS A “FOREIGN STUDENT”???
HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.....NEVER WAS
“This person is way past his fifteen minutes.”
If only he were. Tge basketball playoffs featured such thugs on both teams disrespecting the flag/anthem coaches and all, fans groaning at the mention of USA 250
This creep is the father of that movement
Well they do..
Is the little Bitch attention whoring again? He needs to be reminded that the world says Colin who?
She’s right. They do.
GMTA! LOL!
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