Kaepernick’s Softball Media Tour Avoids Every Hard Question

Liberty Check

• Colin Kaepernick’s media tour shielded him from any accountability over his false police narrative that harmed Black communities
• His voluntary NFL career and Nike millions expose the hypocrisy of comparing professional football to historical slavery
• His inflammatory rhetoric contributed to record murder spikes while his on-field performance collapsed under the weight of activism

Colin Kaepernick has spent the past week promoting his new memoir across friendly outlets like The View, The Daily Show, and The Pivot. The former quarterback sat with Trevor Noah and Jemele Hill, yet not one interviewer challenged his most explosive claims.

The pattern is obvious. Kaepernick picked venues guaranteed to avoid friction, and the hosts delivered exactly that treatment. The result is a sanitized narrative that shields him from scrutiny over his role in years of damaging rhetoric.

OutKick’s Bobby Burack highlighted the absurdity when Kaepernick compared the NFL combine to a slave auction because players are told to strip down. The former quarterback also claimed he still trains daily in hopes an NFL team will call, revealing the contradiction in his own words.

“The cries for people will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.”

Kaepernick’s own tweet from 2020 encouraged revolt and framed violence as the logical response to supposed injustice. Such language fueled the hysteria that followed George Floyd’s death, a period that saw nineteen fatalities and billions in damage within the first two weeks alone.

Harvard economist Roland Fryer documented the direct link between viral police incidents and reduced police activity, which in turn produced record murder increases in Black communities. Kaepernick embodied the mindset that made those outcomes possible.

His final season with the 49ers ended at 1-10, completing under 60 percent of passes with a QBR of 49.2. Twenty-five teams were scheduled to watch him work out in 2019, yet he moved the session to a distant high school at the last minute, effectively ending any comeback hopes.

Meanwhile Kaepernick secured a multi-million dollar Nike deal built on his activist profile. The financial rewards of controversy proved more attractive than returning to the league he claims to despise.

Supporters insist his protests were peaceful, yet he wore pig socks and labeled police as modern slave patrols. That rhetoric helped drive officers off the streets and produced the very conditions that led to more Black deaths, not fewer.

The media figures interviewing Kaepernick have shown no interest in examining these contradictions or the real-world consequences of his campaign. The pattern of soft coverage continues without interruption.

It’s time to push back.