Dez Bryant, a prominent NFL wide receiver, blasted former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick during a podcast appearance for failing to use his platform to create more jobs for the people Kaepernick claims to be “standing up for.”
Bryant made the remarks on Monday’s “I Am Athlete” podcast, which also featured Brandon Marshall, Channing Crowder, Channing Ochocinco, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder.
“I want to mention this too, like I respect Colin Kaepernick,” he said. “But there is one thing that I don’t respect and I said when I get the opportunity and to get on the stage and say it, I would say it, and I love him to death. So there ain’t no hate or nothing like that.”
“But brother, you had the biggest opportunity in the world to create jobs, and build jobs, give jobs to people,” he continued. “The people that you was talking about, the people that you so-called ‘standing up for,’ the people who stood beside you, the people who lost their jobs because of you. Where you at? I ain’t heard from you. I reached out to you. Where you at? … He brought the awareness and that’s why I respect him.”
Bryant also chastised NFL players for supporting social justice messages on social media just because the NFL directed them to do so, rather than because they choose to do so on their own.
