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They’re seemingly worlds apart—a white prince from England, a bi-racial adopted athlete from California. Yet, they’re inextricably tied as the faces of a broken culture—woke, privileged whining multi-millionaires who epitomize victimhood while destroying their parents’ reputations.
RedState’s incomparable Jim Thompson brought you the story of how the inconsolable former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Kaepernick sobbed about the day his parents once questioned his hair choice.
What father and what son haven’t had a conversation about hair decisions? It’s not just about race—when I was a rebellious teen and grew my hair long and tried to sport a goatee, of course, people asked questions. This is called growing up; it’s as old as time itself. But for Kaepernick, it’s a clear sign that the parents who adopted him, loved him, raised him, and supported him—were racist.
And can I just be honest for a moment, Colin? Your hair looks stupid. No, it has nothing to do with race, but if your mane is the first thing I notice from 20 feet away—whether you’re white, black or Martian—you’re probably making a fashion mistake. Just my opinion, and guess what? I’m still allowed to have it as far as I know.
I have written about Prince Harry and his triggering moment when a relative asked what his bi-racial child might look like. As I said, I myself have a bi-racial family—and obviously my wife and I speculated about what our kids would look like, because we’re freakin’ human.
Who with a sentient mind wouldn’t wonder? (Full disclosure: we now have four children, and they’re all stunning IMHO.)
Harry’s doleful book (Spare), his unending tragic interviews, and his wife’s behind-the-scenes publicity campaign to make the couple seem sympathetic have all made the royal duo seem even more divorced from the public, and from the real lives of most people on the planet to the point where they’re actually kind of…. repugnant.
There, I said it.
Prince Harry and Colin Kaepernick are both immensely wealthy, yet they’d both have you believe they’re victims—victims of society, victims of racism, and victims of their parents. I don’t subscribe to some feudal code of honor, but something I just felt I was born with is that you don’t criticize your parents in public. My parents made mistakes—sure, I could write a book, and lambaste them, and tell you all the horrible things they did wrong—but I would never do that.
Sell your soul, Colin:
Kaepernick was abandoned by his black father but reserves all of his animosity for the white couple who took him in and raised him. This guy is utter scum. https://t.co/YXSoPd0jNp
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 10, 2023
What happened to these two grifters, brothers from a different mother?
Is it all for a podcast, an MSNBC hit, a Netflix series? It boggles the mind. What happened to honor?
My parents were born in a different era, and they divorced, and many things occurred that was not shall we say, “Leave it To Beaver.” But you know what? They thought they were doing the right thing; they loved us and did their best.
Meanwhile, I’ve done everything in my power to be a great dad, armed with all the new information we have today that my own father did not have, and yet… I’m sure my children will still have complaints. Parenting is unbelievably hard, and sometimes the things we think are helpful turn out to be the very things they come back to us and bitch about later.
Nobody said it was easy.
Harry and Colin are the epitome of the problems within our society—whiney, eternal victims, always-blaming—the exact opposite of the stiff-upper-lip culture of the once great British empire.
While we’ve made advances in understanding mental health, and the important role parents can play in children’s lives, today’s mores have also gone backward in teaching children that they are victims of everything—pervasive racism, environmental catastrophe, poor use of pronouns. It’s led to a generation of woke softies who contribute little to the world other than their constant complaints. While it’s been extremely lucrative for the zealots, it’s done exactly nothing to improve society.
I’m not sure where I got this code of honor—it was never taught to me—but it just seems ingrained that you should never turn on your family publicly. Of course, if you were abused, or subject to violence, that’s a different matter entirely. But to air your family’s dirty laundry in search of a few more dollars is a completely alien concept to me, and both these men should be utterly ashamed.
They haven’t demeaned their families, as they hoped—instead, they’ve irremediably humiliated themselves.
