Dienstag, CBS MorningsAva DuVernay (left-wing filmmaker) was on hand to talk about her Netflix documentary series, which is about Colin Kaepernick, radical activist and ex-NFL quarterback. While chatting about the ultra-woke propaganda viewers could expect on the upcoming show, co-host Nate Burleson – a former NFL player – touted how the series outrageously compared the NFL scouting and drafting process to “slavery.”
“Powerhouse filmmaker Ava DuVernay teamed up with activist and former NFL star Colin Kaepernick to tell his coming of age story. Duvernay and Kaepernick are co-creators of Netflix’s Colin In Black & White,”Jericka Duncan was a co-host in the ET hour. ET hour segment. In addition to her role as PR agent she declared: “The series shows how his decision to take a knee to protest police brutality and racial injustice was born in his early experiences fighting for his dreams.”
Duncan played a short clip of the show and turned to DuVernay. He cheered. “I got a chance to watch this, really well done. And I think you were able to humanize someone who’s been demonized by many.”
Kaepernick’s anti-American views were wildly controversial, but he was made to feel like a victim. DuVernay even sympathized with him. “…he was telling me these stories and I thought all these little microaggressions really add up to something. And that’s interesting to explore, the cumulative effect of all of the little slights that we feel.”She smiled happily as she left the room. “But everything he went through were steps on a journey that made him a singular American icon, right?”
It was at that point that millionaire former football player and current network morning show host Burleson talked to millionaire DuVernay about millionaire Kaepernick’s incendiary claims about the NFL drafting process:
Just like any other project, the episode begins boldly with information. These are the parallels you can draw between professional scouting and slavery. As a player in the NFL, I can recall going to the pro days and the combine wearing my shorts and my shirt. They then measured my hand size and weighed me.These guys were all trying to work out whether they wanted to draft me.
He at least eventually admitted that it wasn’t quite “slavery”: “…the difference is slavery was free labor.”
DuVernay tried his best to justify the ridiculous:
The piece that you’re talking about, which is a comparison of the combine, that process with them measuring the black body and kind a slave auctionEconomics is not all about the economics we use. It’s about social control of a black body. It’s about saying I will measure your value based on your muscles, how fast you run. So that’s the point that that’s trying to make.
Burleson was also in agreement: “For sure.”
DuVernay gave Kaepernick all credit for the horrible accusation. “And that was really Colin’s idea to say as the black men are being processed through this combine process, this combine experience, what that felt like to him. It felt very similar to our ancestors, who were also processed for profit.”Burleson offered his support once more: “I agree with it.”
He promised the director that the series would contain such unhinged speech: “So he has some provocative ideas that we explore in it and it all kind of comes from his experience.”
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This is the complete transcript from the Oct 26 segment.
8.17 am ET
JERICKA DUNCAN : Ava DuVernay, a powerful filmmaker and activist, teamed up to tell the story of her coming-of-age journey with Colin Kaepernick. Duvernay and Kaepernick are co-creators of Netflix’s Colin In Black & White. This scripted series follows Colin, a young black adoptee teen who lives with a white family. His early struggles for his dreams led to his decision to kneel to protest police brutality.
[CLIP FROM COLIN IN BLACK & WHITE]
DUNCAN – DuVernay directed all episodes of the series, including the opening episode. Ava DuVernay: Good morning, and thanks for being with us today in the studio.
AVA DUBERNAY: Ava, I’m glad you are here.
DUNCAN: Yes. It was great to see. And I think you were able to humanize someone who’s been demonized by many. How did you use – or why did you decide to use his hair as a starting point, as we saw in that clip, to really explore the truth and the depths of race and identity?
DUVERNAY: Well, you know, we used his life as a springboard, his early life as a springboard to talk about larger conversations about race, class, identity, respectability. He was generous in letting us dig into those first years. It’s not hair. It’s a proxy to talk about so many other things as it relates to black people in American life, social control, like I said, respectability. So it felt like a good place to begin and it’s one of many different aspects of being black in America that we explore.
DUNCAN: You said that Colin’s self-love journey is what drew you to really want to work with him on this type of series.
DUVERNAY: I think, you know, he – we met each other at a Time 100 event a few years ago and he – he approached me about working together on something around his early life. I wondered at first what I would do with your childhood. As we talked, I realized that he was sharing stories with me and all of these microaggressions add up to something. And that’s interesting to explore, the cumulative effect of all of the little slights that we feel. That was it.
TONY DOKOUPIL: It’s incredibly interesting and really creatively told. So I think we should set up people’s expectations, right? Because when they press play, it begins with Colin talking directly to camera, almost like a documentary or like a TED Talk, and then shifts to – you’ve got Jaden Michael playing the young Colin.
DUVERNAY : Yes.
DOKOUPIL: What made you do it this way?
DUVERNAY: Well, we wanted to not just make a doc and not just make a coming of age of a celebrity’s early life. We’ve seen both. It was a matter of weaving them together to create a more exciting story. It’s a kid going through kid stuff. All he had to go through was just the first step in a long journey that would make him an American icon. How do we become who and what are our common threads? So the goal of this is not to see this and say, this is Colin’s story. It’s like what parts of my journey can I also see in this? It seemed like an interesting way to explore it, with a variety of textures and genres.
NATE BURLESON, It’s a mix. It is a drama and a documentary. Just like any other project, the pilot episode is bold and informative. These are the parallels you see between professional scouting and slavery. As a player in the NFL, I can recall going to the pro days and the combine with my shirt on, wearing shorts and they, you know. They then measured my hands and weighed me once I had stepped onto the scale. Then there were all these men with pencils and papers on their pads, trying to decide if they would draft me.
But then as I’m watching this, I’m thinking to myself, how important is it for athletes to know, one, the process of becoming a professional athlete, like you showed. Two, there’s the chance to make a lot of wealth. Slavery was not free labor. These young people, who might have come from harsh circumstances, have the chance to rebuild their finances but they will need to manage their money.
DUVERNAY: The piece that you’re talking about, which is a comparison of the combine, that process with them measuring the black body and kind a slave auction is not about economics in the way that we put it there. It’s about social control of a black body.
BURLESON: For sure.
DUVERNAY: It’s about saying I will measure your value based on your muscles, how fast you run. So that’s the point that that’s trying to make. And that was really Colin’s idea to say as the black men are being processed through this combine process, this combine experience, what that felt like to him.
BURLESON :
DUVERNAY, It reminded me of my ancestors. They were also exploited for their profit.
BURLESON : It is my agreement.
DUVERNAY: To make a profit. We explore some of his provocative ideas in this book, and all the while it is based on his own experience.
DUNCAN: And before we go, really quickly, the next six months, you’ve got six other projects going on.DUVERNAY: I know, what’s going on?
DOKOUPIL – What is happening?
BURLESON: You’re busy.
DUVERNAY: I’m grateful, that’s what’s going on.
DOKOUPIL: We hope you come back. Jaden Michael does this with such grace.
DUVERNAY: Isn’t he wonderful?
DOKOUPIL: Great young actor.
DUVERNAY: He’s a shining star, people will love watching him.
BURLESON: Incredible project.
DUVERNAY, Thank You.
DUNCAN: Ava DuVernay. Thank you. Colin in Black & WhiteNetflix premieres Friday, February 13th
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