Colin in Black & White

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Colin Kaepernick became famous in the US as an NFL quarterback. He became famous around the world, and infamous in his own country, when he became a civil rights protester and – shortly after that – no longer an NFL quarterback. Kaepernick drew admiration and condemnation when he took the knee during the playing of the US national anthem at a preseason game in 2016, in protest against US police brutality and racial inequality after multiple police shootings of black people and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.Colin in Black & White Season 1 Download 

His actions inspired many more players to join him in similar actions – then president Trump to recommend that such players should be fired. At the end of the season, the managers at his team, the San Francisco 49ers, told him they were going to release him – a move largely seen as politically rather than practically motivated, despite the 49ers’ claim that he didn’t fit in with their new coach’s plans. His activism has increased and he has remained unsigned since.Colin in Black and White (Netflix) tells the story of his formative teenage years. The six-part collaboration between Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay (the director of Selma and the creator of the magnificent drama When They See Us, about the young black men falsely accused of the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park) is a bold creation, shaped and fuelled by anger, aimed at educating as much as – if not even more than – entertaining. It takes your breath away.It is a mix of straightforward drama, showing the young Kaepernick (played brilliantly by Jaden Michael in his first major role), who is biracial, negotiating the complexities of growing up in a white adoptive family, and commentary by Kaepernick himself.His parents, Rick and Theresa (Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker), are loving but limited in their understanding of what he needs and what he needs from them. Most of the first episode centres around the adolescent Kaepernick’s desire to get his hair braided like his basketball hero, Allen “The Answer” Iverson. (As with many professional athletes.

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