{"id":62125,"date":"2021-11-08T04:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T04:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62125"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:12:03","slug":"netflixs-colin-in-black-and-white-shows-a-star-athlete-reaching-toward-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62125","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s &#8216;Colin in Black and White&#8217; shows a star athlete reaching toward Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/29\/1050214521\/netflix-colin-in-black-and-white-ava-duvernay-colin-kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Netflix&#8217;s &#8216;Colin in Black and White&#8217; shows a star athlete reaching toward Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/all-things-considered\/\">All Things Considered<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a><br>2021-10-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deggans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eric Deggans<\/strong><\/a>, TV Critic<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/29\/1050214521\/netflix-colin-in-black-and-white-ava-duvernay-colin-kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 95%;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2021\/10\/28\/colin---jaden-as-kap_wide-c24344aa0f990c5b29d91738fa6a726cea84c0ee-s1800-c85.webp\"><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3663271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaden Michael<\/a> plays a young <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> in Netflix&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_in_Black_%26_White\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin in Black and White<\/a>.&#8217;<br><em>Courtesy of Netflix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1050214521\/1050620628\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you had any questions about where <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s<\/a> activist spirit originated, a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix&#8217;s<\/a> new limited series, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_in_Black_%26_White\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Colin in Black and White<\/em><\/a>, removes all doubt.<\/p>\n<p>These days, Kaepernick is known as the ex<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_49ers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">-San Francisco 49ers<\/a> quarterback whose decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._national_anthem_protests_(2016%E2%80%93present)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kneel during the national anthem in 2016<\/a> to protest racial injustice inspired others and kicked off years of conflicts. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/bayarea\/49ers\/colin-kaepernicks-nfl-absence-notable-despite-roger-goodells-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">became a free agent<\/a> in 2017 and remains unsigned by an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> team, a situation many analysts attributed to political blowback from the controversy sparked by his protest.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>Colin in Black and White<\/em> makes the case that he&#8217;s been fighting those kinds of battles since he was in middle school, facing down clueless coaches, oblivious friends and well-intentioned white parents who adopted a biracial kid but seemed to have little idea how to handle his desire to embrace Blackness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/29\/1050214521\/netflix-colin-in-black-and-white-ava-duvernay-colin-kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had any questions about where Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s activist spirit originated, a look at Netflix&#8217;s new limited series, Colin in Black and White, removes all doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,1245,5,8,23674,20],"tags":[2342,30984,24878,13058,31984,2309,29469],"class_list":["post-62125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-all-things-considered","tag-ava-duvernay","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-eric-deggans","tag-jaden-michael","tag-national-public-radio","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62137,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125\/revisions\/62137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}