Ex-Giant Jack Brewer rips ‘evil’ Colin Kaepernick over Netflix documentary
Jack Brewer, a former NFL defensive back who appeared in 13 games for the New York Giants in 2004, came out swinging against Colin Kaepernick, saying that the former 49ers quarterback “has an evil, anti-American spirit and it’s sick and disgusting.”
Brewer was referring to remarks that Kaepernick made during his Netflix documentary, “Colin in Black & White,” in which the former quarterback compared the NFL Combine to slavery.
“What they don’t want you to understand, is what’s established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick said. “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.”
From there, the documentary elicited imagery of a slave marketplace.
“This new Colin Kaepernick doctrine that’s penetrating the minds and hearts of so many of our underserved Black kids across America is the single largest threat to Black men in the United States of America because right now folks are thinking that they’re victims and they’re living in the most prosperous, the most opportunity of any country in the world,” Brewer, who played four seasons in the NFL, ” Brewer said on “Fox & Friends First” on Fox News
“You have kids that are hopeless and then you go out and push this mentality and you’re supposed to be someone that’s a leader. Think about the movement that this guy started, the opportunity that he had that he could actually come and promote positivity to young Black men. Telling them how great this country is. He doesn’t have that spirit in him. He has an evil, anti-American spirit and it’s sick and disgusting. One more thing. That even Netflix, someone that big and popular would even put something out like that, to penetrate the mind of these kids should be illegal.”
Kaepernick started 58 regular-season games for the San Francisco 49ers between 2012 and 2016. In his career, he won four playoff games, reaching the Super Bowl in early 2013, which the 49ers narrowly lost to the Baltimore Ravens.
Kaepernick’s decision to kneel for the national anthem in 2016 ignited — or, perhaps, revealed — staunch polarization and divisiveness that has continued in sports, culture, and politics to this day.