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Colin Kaepernick is sharing an important story from his childhood to make a point. During a resurfaced March interview with CBS News, the former football player and activist shared that his adoptive parents made some problematic comments about his appearance. The call-out wasn't easy for him to do, but he still felt it was necessary.
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Weeks after the CBS interview, Kaepernick shared that calling out his parents' racism was "very difficult."
"The people that love you and that you love can also perpetuate very problematic elements," he said during a conversation with Eve Ewing, the cowriter of his graphic novel Change the Game.
"Those things can exist at the same time."
