Colin Kaepernick should change his last name. He should follow Prince’s lead and be referred to as the football player formerly known as Kaepernick until his rightful last name takes effect. Why, and what should his last name be changed to, you ask, read on?
Colin, the football player formerly known as Kaepernick is a mediocre, former quarterback for San Francisco and “civil rights” activist. We could simply post his NFL record and end this article here with “Colin, the football player formerly known as Kaepernick is awful” but let’s go back … back to 1987.
Ronald Reagan is president, it is morning in America, and it is a magical time for young Heidi Russo whose 18, and in love with a man ten years her senior. Although there is no ring, they are promised to be married. Unfortunately, not much is known about her fiancé, so we will refer to him as, first name “Sperm”, last name “Donor.” One hot summer night passion is inflamed, and young Colin is conceived. Heidi is thrilled and cannot wait to share the exciting news with Sperm Donor. But Heidi does not get the reception she hoped for. Sperm Donor freaks, and leaves Heidi pregnant and alone. Nine months fly by, and poor Heidi cannot afford the young child on her own. Heidi is heartbroken as she puts Colin up for adoption. Rick and Teresa Kaepernick adopt the little bouncing boy after they lost two of their sons to heart defects. The Kaepernick’s were thrilled to receive Colin into their family and doted over the young boy as one of their own. They invested time and effort into his dreams and encouraged his interests. Trips to football, basketball, and baseball games, would be the routine.
Young Colin showed a lot of promise, becoming the starting quarterback on his youth team, being nominated for all-state selection in all three sports, and rated the most valuable player of the Central California Conference in football. He went on to excel in sports throughout his college years until he was drafted by the NFL in 2011. Honestly, it sounds like a storybook. A triumph and celebration of overcoming odds. A heart-warming, and inspirational tale of adoption
And most importantly, race had NOTHING to do with any of it.
But Colin has made race, oppression, and division an issue today. He’s played his part in sowing the seeds of racial tension. He kneels for the national anthem, views the flag as a sign of oppression, and identifies with a character based on Alex Haley’s family line. Since Colin has made all of these an issue, they should be addressed. Let us go back and introduce race into our triumphant tale.
Heidi is white (never owned slaves), and from what we know, Sperm Donor is black, and of Ghanaian, Nigeria, and Ivorian ancestry (never been a slave) and the adoptive parents are white (never owned slaves). From the straightforward, simple math, Colin is half (50%) white and half (50%) black. Not one hundred percent white, and not one hundred percent black. He should identify as much white, as he does black. Not exactly sure why he identifies solely as a black man when there is just as much white in him, but that doesn’t matter.
His black Sperm Donor ran out on the family before Colin was even born. His white mother placed him in a loving white home, who accepted and raised him as their very own child. Did race add or detract anything from his story? It should not have. Race did not matter to his mother or the Kaepernick’s. It only matters to Colin and the rest of the loonies who worship him as some kind of black Jesus.
Race is not the issue. Colin is not some poor oppressed black man held down by some imaginary white system. The so-called “white” system stuck by him when Sperm Donor bolted from his responsibilities. And that is the issue, Colin was saved from another fatherless home. Multiple studies show that children thrive in a two-parent homes. The whiteness or blackness of any of the people surrounding Colin had nothing to do with his “success” or failure. It was the fact that he was raised in a loving, two-parent home, the way that God intended.
It baffles the mind, how someone as successful as Colin the football player formerly known as Kaepernick can go around preaching about his “oppression” and kneeling on the country that has afforded him so much. He makes millions playing a game and having his picture taken wearing over-priced apparel, made by people suffering under real slavery. He is not oppressed. His is a success story, a dream come true, and an inspiration to millions of people who dream of making it someday. Hard work, determination, and a lot of practice breeds success.
Colin prefers to identify with the half of his ancestry that left before he was even born. Sperm Donor was not a father, but Rick was. To her credit, Heidi wanted a family. She had a promise that Sperm Donor would stay with her. She was unaware that Sperm Donor would leave before Colin was born. Yet this is the half Colin chooses to identify with. Therefore, from this day forward he should be known only as Colin Donor. Go ahead and pick up the unknown last name of your father who was nothing more than a sperm donor. And while you’re at it, drop the football player. You are simply, Colin Donor, the activist.
But doesn’t his white adoption prove there’s systemic racism?
No, because he identifies as a black man. At what point did Colin Donor, identify as white and when did he switch? Was he white in high school? Was he black in college? Was he white until he was drafted by the NFL? Was he savvy enough to work the “white system” long enough to beat it and then become black? Nah, Colin Donor just decided the only way to make a name for himself was to stir controversy in a sport largely enjoyed by people who love this country, because his record sucked.
One of the greatest things about this country is that people from all over the world are welcome here. Legal immigration is encouraged unless of course, the only way you can win elections is by gathering as large a voting block through illegal immigration. In America, you can meet Irish, Scottish, British, German, Native American, Africans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Pakistanis, Chinese, Mexican, Ivorian, and sometimes a mix of them all. You can fall in love, get married and produce children who are free to become doctors, lawyers, sports players, salesmen, dentists, chiropractors, designers, construction workers, architects, midwives, nurses, electricians, plumbers, and the list goes on. We live in the greatest, most welcoming country on the planet, and we live at a time in history when people from all walks of life are free to pursue their dreams. To the downtrodden, and truly racially oppressed people, get a new hero, because Colin Donor is awful!