“I tweeted out an apology yesterday but wanted to use this call to formerly apology to Colin Kaepernick”, he said. Either Rodney Harrison has a very odd method for defining who is and isn’t black, or he literally does not realize that Colin Kaepernick is a black man.
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“… And I tell you this, I’m a black man”, Harrison said on the talk show.
“I don’t think he faces those type of things that we face on a daily basis”, the former San Francisco Charger said. “He can not what I face, and what other young black men and people of color face on a every single (day) basis”.
Kaepernick, who is biracial, has been under the gun in trying to keep his job as starting quarterback for the 49ers.
Diggs, the father of a biracial son, slammed Harrison’s assumption that Kaepernick couldn’t understand the hardships of African Americans.
He continued, “When there can be so much negativity coming at African-Americans from so many directions, why do we continue to fight each other?”
“I apologize to anyone that I offended, wasn’t meant to be hurtful to anyone”. Now I’m not saying that Kaepernick is Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, or even Muhammad Ali.
Harrison’s issue with Kaepernick’s protest isn’t that the protest is unwarranted or he’s going about it the wrong way; rather, it’s that he doesn’t believe Kaepernick truly understands the struggle due to the fact that he has a white biological mother and was adopted by two white parents.
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No word if this is the end of the sordid saga or if more conversation is yet to come on the matter from Harrison or anyone else involved.
