{"id":64195,"date":"2023-03-13T03:07:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64195"},"modified":"2023-03-13T03:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:07:31","slug":"colin-kaepernick-calls-out-adoptive-parents-racism-as-he-promotes-new-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64195","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick calls out adoptive parents\u2019 racism as he promotes new graphic novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/10\/sport\/colin-kaepernick-adoptive-parents-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Colin Kaepernick calls out adoptive parents\u2019 racism as he promotes new graphic novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a><br \/>\n2023-03-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fostermdf1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Matt Foster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/10\/sport\/colin-kaepernick-adoptive-parents-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 85%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230310092258-colin-kaepernick-file-050619.jpg?c=16x9&amp;q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; display: block; width: 85%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s graphic novel<\/a> memoir details his high school years before he entered professional sports, according to the publisher. <em>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> accused his White adoptive parents of perpetuating racism in their household in an interview with CBS\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adriana_Diaz_(journalist)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriana Diaz<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know my parents loved me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through,\u201d the 35-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/10\/sport\/colin-kaepernick-adoptive-parents-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused his White adoptive parents of perpetuating racism in their household in an interview with CBS\u2019 Adriana Diaz on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,1245],"tags":[33773,9447,3142,24878,33772,33775,33774],"class_list":["post-64195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-biography","tag-adriana-diaz","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-matt-foster","tag-rick-kaepernick","tag-teresa-kaepernick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64195","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=64195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64198,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64195\/revisions\/64198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}