The View’s Sunny Hostin defended Colin Kaepernick’s comparison of the National Football League to slavery.
The co-hosts of The View discussed Kaepernick’s Netflix series Colin in Black & White, a coming-of-age story based on Kaepernick’s experience in football. The show’s opening scene shows black football players being overseen by white coaches as they play.
“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick said to the camera. “Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you, searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respected. No dignity left intact.”
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The scene transitions to a slave market, depicting shackled black men in place of the players.
Hostin voiced support for the athlete’s take on the dynamics within the NFL.
“The headlines that are coming out of it instead of his story are, ‘Oh my goodness, Colin Kaepernick compared the NFL combines to slavery,’ and that’s all that anyone is talking about,” Hostin said.
“I will tell you, my son is not playing football now, but he was recruited to play football for college, and I saw the combines for the first time, and they were measuring his wingspan, they had him jump up and down to measure something that is called the ‘vertical jump,’ and I felt some kind of way about it,” she continued.
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“It was an uncomfortable thing to watch as a parent for your child to be sort of a commodity in that way,” she said. “I know that they are being paid for it in the NFL, but at what cost?”
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