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Colin Kaepernick is openly complaining that his white adoptive parents couldn't prepare him for what it means to be black in America — but BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says they're the reason he succeeded in the first place.In an interview on "The Karen Hunter show," Hunter asked Kaepernick how he thought “about the term 'biracial' in relation to [his] black identity” and whether or not it resonated with him at all.“I identify as a black man,” Kaepernick responded. “It’s how I show up in the world. It’s how I’m treated in the world. That’s politically how I approach the world. Biracial, my parents knew I was black and told me I was black at a young age.”“But also how they operated was within a sense of color blindness. Like, hey, we’re all family, like, everybody’s going to be treated equal. And that’s what it is. But that’s not how the world is going to operate or treat me when I walk outside these doors,” he continued.Kaepernick went on to explain that his white parents from Wisconsin never explained that to him.“I think their exposure to blackness was also whatever was out in the media at a high level,” he said.“He’s acting like, ‘Oh, what a disadvantage it was,’” Whitlock says, pointing out that statistically those raised in black families aren’t doing anywhere near as well as he is.“Don’t you see how well these black parents are doing preparing their kids for success? Haven’t you looked at their SAT scores? Haven’t you looked at their graduation rates? Haven’t you looked at their marriage rates?” Whitlock asks.“Now they treated him like they treated a kid that would have been their own. They wanted him to be colorblind. And he turned out, for the most part, for a good stretch, pretty successful. Stayed out of trouble, made it to college, made it to the NFL,” he continues.“It almost feels like what they did worked,” he adds.However, now that Kaepernick has turned his focus to his racial identity, he’s starting to fail.“And then once Colin Kaepernick became obsessed with his blackness, that’s when all the trouble started and that’s where the career and everything started going a different direction,” Whitlock explains.“This guy’s clueless,” he adds.Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A Florida woman who is an 11-time convicted felon fled a traffic stop Wednesday with a deputy partially inside the vehicle and crashed into a school bus carrying 41 children, police said. Officers said they discovered a pipe bomb, shotgun shells, counterfeit money, drugs, and credit cards belonging to other people in the vehicle the suspect was driving.The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that deputies conducted a traffic stop on a silver Kia Forte around 4:36 p.m. 'Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets.'The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office released police bodycam footage that shows a deputy informing the driver that she was pulled over because both brake lights on her car were out.The driver, 54-year-old Tonnetta Evans, handed over an alleged driver's license and identified her name as "Kirsten," according to the police bodycam video.Police said officers developed probable cause during the stop to search the vehicle. Evans was "uncooperative" during the search and refused to exit the vehicle, police stated. The statement said that while a deputy was partially inside the suspect's vehicle, the suspect tried driving away from the scene."Immediately after fleeing, and before a pursuit could be initiated based on the aggravated battery, Evans struck a school bus carrying 41 Pierce Middle School students, the bus driver, and a bus aide," the police statement read. The bus sustained minor damage, and no students were injured in the collision, according to police. The students were transferred to another bus and taken home. Police said Evans was apprehended and arrested shortly after the collision. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said the following items were recovered during a search of the car Evans was driving: Pipe bomb/explosive deviceBrass knuckles and a TASERBandolier of shotgun shellsThree identification cards belonging to other individualsFour credit cards belonging to other individualsCounterfeit $100 bills totaling $1,100Silver half-dollars and coinsMethamphetamine, marijuana, and multiple prescription pillsRELATED: Award-winning nurse torpedoes her job after vowing to let cops die during twisted DWI stop caught on bodycam video Image source: Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office Evans was arrested and hit with more than a dozen charges, including:Aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weaponArmed possession of methamphetamineAggravated fleeing to eludeBattery on a law enforcement officerFelon in possession of ammunitionFelon in possession of an electric weapon or deviceFalse name to a law enforcement officerPossession of cannabis less than 20 gramsPossession of drug paraphernaliaPossession of a controlled substance without a prescription (3 counts)Unlawful possession of the personal identification of another (5 or more)Tampering with physical evidenceAttaching a tag not assignedLeaving the scene of a crash involving a school bus (hit and run)Evans has criminal records in two other states, police stated. The statement added that Evans also was arrested on a Kentucky failure to appear warrant for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and theft of identity of another without consent.Police noted that Evans is a nine-time convicted felon in Indiana, a two-time convicted felon in Kentucky, and a three-time Indiana State Prison releasee. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office stated that Evans' criminal record in Kentucky and Indiana includes charges of escape, burglary, burglary of a vehicle, theft of identity of another without consent, and possession of narcotics.During the investigation, deputies discovered that the vehicle Evans was driving was reported stolen out of Kentucky in 2022.RELATED: Bizarre bodycam video shows Florida cops arresting Chuck E. Cheese mascot as kids, parents watch in shockHillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said of Evans, "This suspect showed a complete disregard for the safety of our deputy, other motorists, and the children of our community, and we are extremely fortunate that no one was seriously hurt."Chronister continued, "Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets."Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office records show Evans, of Dover, Florida, was being held without bond at Falkenburg Road Jail.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Republican senator is getting mocked for decrying pilots possibly practicing a "deranged fetish," but he fired back with disturbing evidence of his claim.Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama railed against the transgender agenda in a fiery screed on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, but only one brief clip from his speech against the "woke mind virus" went viral.'Ask yourself ... would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?'Tuberville called for a national debate on the mental health crisis that is causing widespread "gender confusion."Then he cited furries in the airline industry."Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and aircraft traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us," he said. "It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can't make this up."That short clip from the 18-minute speech was posted to social media, where many on the left mocked and ridiculed Tuberville.The vast majority of the criticism completely ignored the cogent argument and Tuberville's list of numerous examples of deranged people with fetishes who eventually became violent."Gender-confused people have one of the HIGHEST suicide rates among people struggling with mental illness. Unfortunately, these gender-confused individuals aren’t just harming themselves — they’re also hurting other people," he wrote on X Thursday. "GENDER CONFUSION IS A MENTAL ILLNESS." To demonstrate his point about violence and "gender confusion," Tuberville mentioned Charlie Kirk, who argued in good faith against the transgender agenda, and was brutally murdered. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, has been linked to gender confusion and the online furry community. Tuberville also responded to the ridicule with more evidence for his claims."I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week," Tuberville wrote in a post on social media. "But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry," he added. "Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA."RELATED: Poll finds transgender agenda has lost ground over last three years He posted a news video that included a recording of pilots meowing and barking while on the job. One voice scolds them to be more professional."Just a few weeks ago at the 'Furry Migration' convention in Minneapolis, there was an 'Aviation Furs Meet-up,'" he added in a second post. "Ask yourself ... would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?" he added. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Glenn Beck is stunned that a story involving none other than Taylor Swift — the LGBTQ ally, abortion-supporting pop star — is bringing not only a smile to his face but also a little hope for the future.A video of the newlywed singer cheering as her husband, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, scored his first touchdown of the season, is going viral. In the clip, Swift points to her wedding ring, screaming, “That’s my husband!”While Glenn “[doesn’t] care” about Swift as a celebrity, he knows that she has an unprecedented ability to shape the culture.“The countless women who have never been told the power of supporting their husbands’ passions are seeing that video. They have never been told that it's a good and honorable thing to support their husbands, and they don't know how much that means to men,” he says.“Now Taylor Swift is doing that. This is a cultural moment — an important one. It will give more women permission to point to their wedding ring and go, ‘That's my husband,”’ he adds. But before Swift made it cool to support one’s husband, Glenn was encouraging women to do just that.“I said at my speech for Charlie Kirk's memorial at TPUSA that women have forgotten the influence they hold over men, the power they have to shape the lives of the men that they love and to make sure they're on God's path,” he says.Women, Glenn explains, bring out the best in men when they see and call out potential.“You look at us as the man that, somewhere in all of us, we want to be. We will be that man. We will. Without nagging, without saying anything, you just see who we want to be and encourage us by … pointing to a ring and saying, 'That's my husband,'" he says.Spouses encouraging each other, he says, is “rocket fuel.”“You want to change your marriage? You tell your wife every day how proud you are that you're married to her. You tell your wife every day how amazing she is. It will transform her,” says Glenn.“Women, you tell your husband how proud you are of him and what he does and what he accomplishes, how hard he works. You'll transform him.”The culture, Glenn explains, is framing the latter as “trad” — internet slang for the traditional-wife trend that treats supporting a husband as a 1950s homemaker aesthetic of aprons, from-scratch dinners, and stay-at-home submission.“It's not trad. … You don't have to wear an apron. [Taylor Swift] wasn't wearing an apron,” he says.“Taylor Swift just set a massive example for women all over Earth … and millions of young women saw it.”To hear more, watch the video above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.