Colin Kaepernick Praises Fidel Castro

It all started with refusing to stand for the National Anthem. How far we’ve come.

According to this, Colin Kaepernick praised Fidel Castro and said the United States could learn a thing or two from him. You know. When it comes to educating our youth, at least.

Ahead of the game against Miami Sunday, reporters asked him about his support of Castro. After all, he wore a Castro shirt earlier this year. The shirt had a picture of Malcom X and Fidel Castro and read, “Great minds think alike.”

Kaepernick reeeeeeally didn’t want to talk about the Castro shirt.

“I’m not talking about Fidel Castro and his oppression,” he said. “I’m talking about Malcolm X and what he’s done for people.”

He cracked, eventually.

“One thing that Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system, which we do not do here, even though we’re fully capable of doing that,” he said.

The Miami Herald reporter,  who comes from a family of Cuban exiles, basically asked Kaepernick how he could defend Castro when he’s broken up so many families and oppressed so many people. Kaepernick was all, “Yeah? Well so has the United States.” I’m hardly exaggerating.

“We do break up families here,” Kaepernick said. “That’s what mass incarceration is. That was the foundation of slavery, so our country has been based on that as well as the genocide of Native Americans.”

Don’t even get me started on those historical fallacies. Does he even know how violent the Native Americans were against each other before Europeans came on the scene? And obviously, slavery was terrible, but it wasn’t just prevalent in the New World. It was a cultural norm, and we abolished it. Not to mention that it’s the 21st century and Cubans are still oppressed.

The good news? Even some of Colin Kaepernick’s original supporters aren’t taking him seriously anymore.