Reasonable Doubt: Colin Kaepernick Thinks Jay Z…
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Colin Kaepernick is making it crystal clear that he hasn’t forgotten who switched lanes once the money and company access began flowing.
In a new interview with NBC News, the previous NFL quarterback instructed that Jay-Z’s current photographs at him are less about Kaepernick and more about the rapper attempting to soothe what Kaepernick believes is a very loud guilty conscience. And to be fairly frank, the timing is doing a lot of speaking.
The pressure erupted after Jay-Z name-dropped Kaepernick during a July efficiency at Yankee Stadium while defending his controversial business relationship with Target. Jay-Z mocked those who dare point out Kaepernick’s title as somebody who Jay Z had betrayed. The Brooklyn rapper also referenced the previous quarterback’s settlement with the NFL and claiming that Kaepernick had signed a non-disparagement settlement.
“They run out of characters, had to bring back up [Kaepernick] again,” Jay-Z said, referring to people who have criticized him for a current partnership with Target. “Buddy took a check, I ain’t even mad at him, but along with that check you have to sign a non-disparagement. I’m the one [the NFL] can’t control.”
A declare has no foundation in actuality as there’s no evidence that Kaepernick ever signed such an settlement. In fact, Kaepernick has disparaged the NFL a number of occasions since signing a deal to get the money he was owed. He also told NBC News himself that he didn’t signal such an settlement when he settled his collusion lawsuit with the league in 2019.
But the real issue is larger than one freestyle.
Jay-Z was once among Kaepernick’s most outstanding supporters. After Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice, Jay-Z publicly backed him, even carrying Kaepernick’s jersey during a 2017 look on Saturday Night Live. Then got here the plot twist, in 2019, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation partnered with the NFL, the same league Kaepernick accused of blackballing him. Roc Nation has since produced the Super Bowl halftime show and labored with the NFL on alleged social justice initiatives.
In his e-book, Kaepernick says he warned Jay-Z about the partnership, arguing that the NFL was basically utilizing him as a Black face to rehabilitate its image while Kaepernick remained unemployed. Jay-Z famously declared that the tradition had moved “past kneeling” and that it was time for motion.
“I just want you to know, one, you’re serving the culture up to a bunch of racists and, two, they don’t care about you,” Kaepernick wrote about what he told Jay-Z when they spoke. “You’re the music guy to them. They quite literally need a Black face—and have said as much.”
Fast-forward a number of years, and Jay-Z is now defending another company relationship, this time with Target. As BOSSIP beforehand reported, the big box giant has confronted backlash and boycotts from Black customers after rolling back its variety, equity and inclusion efforts to kowtow to Donald Trump’s anti-Black agenda. Kaepernick, meanwhile, is refusing to promote his upcoming memoir, The Perilous Fight, through Target. Instead, his e-book tour is partnering with the National Association of Black Bookstores.
Kaepernick believes Jay-Z’s continued references to their disagreement counsel he’s still wrestling with the backlash over his NFL partnership. He described the state of affairs as evidence of a “guilty conscience” and accused Jay-Z of trying some good old style reputational recovery.
Kaepernick says he’ll let his work communicate for itself. Meanwhile, Jay-Z apparently still has one thing to say.
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