{"id":172758,"date":"2019-07-06T04:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kaepernick-is-spokesperson-for-the-black-culture-says-trinidad-james"},"modified":"2019-07-06T04:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T09:38:28","slug":"kaepernick-is-spokesperson-for-the-black-culture-says-trinidad-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kaepernick-is-spokesperson-for-the-black-culture-says-trinidad-james","title":{"rendered":"Kaepernick Is &#039;Spokesperson for the Black Culture,&#039; Says Trinidad James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-100885\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"26.4061068702\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"49.3135080645\">\n<section id=\"cb-2cfae9636f2950fb5e3ea442d361f670\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"w-100\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive-item\">\n<div id=\"video-player-8bca7a6d-f095-5c2e-b93c-a5e5ff65bf8d-1969864714-image-holder\" class=\"video-block-image-holder vilynx_enabled vilynx_audiopolicycta vilynx_hidectaicon\" data-vilynx-id=\"www.tmz.com\/videos\/070319-trinidad-james-4584808-0-kbngnmip\">\n    <button class=\"embed-responsive-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-8bca7a6d-f095-5c2e-b93c-a5e5ff65bf8d-1969864714-play-btn\"><br \/><span class=\"sr-only\">Play video content<\/span><br \/><\/button><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"california\" alt=\"california\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kaepernick-Is-039Spokesperson-for-the-Black-Culture039-Says-Trinidad-James.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZSports.com<\/span>\n   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-e67dc02fdcd9ce22e92f3cb30afbab8d\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"25\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/colin-kaepernick\/\"><strong>Colin Kaepernick<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>isn\u2019t just an athlete with a platform \u2014 \u201che\u2019s the spokesperson for the black culture\u201d \u2026 so says rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/trinidad-james\/\"><strong>Trinidad James<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-348e0b35ea6cd9a6caeeeea99fc31dd1\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p>After Kaepernick reached out to Nike with concerns about their Betsy Ross Flag shoe, Trinidad says the culture immediately got behind Colin because they trust him as a leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-533ec00a46a924aa059484d4d71f5360\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p>Trinidad \u2014 the guy behind the hit \u201cAll Gold Everything\u201d \u2014 essentially explains why he believes Kaepernick\u2019s activism comes from a good place \u2026 and that\u2019s why so many people are on board with his movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-2f5015756da26413f1257c1ca2d3df8b\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink \"\/>\n<section id=\"cb-01aac7b304c845c5a734daf85eacb2f8\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"32.8155339806\">\n<p>As we previously reported, Nike felt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/07\/01\/colin-kaepernick-nike-flag-shoe-dropped-pulled-betsy-ross-july-fourth\/\"><strong>Kap had a point<\/strong><\/a> with his objection to the Betsy Ross shoe (he claimed the 13-star flag has been co-opted by white nationalist groups) and pulled the kicks from stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-b3814a5736b0e821b52c2c70e53c3c6c\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"28.7821782178\">\n<p>Several politicians have now gotten involved \u2014 with people like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/ted-cruz\/\"><strong>Ted Cruz<\/strong><\/a> calling for a Nike boycott.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-d36f95dcf4424906b6110581065b35cc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \" readability=\"28.2\">\n<p>Others \u2026 like California\u2019s Lt. Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/gavin-newsom\/\"><strong>Gavin Newsom<\/strong><\/a> have praised Nike for representing \u201cthe best of our American values.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/07\/06\/trinidad-james-colin-kaepernick-black-culture\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/kaepernick-is-spokesperson-for-the-black-culture-says-trinidad-james\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video content TMZSports.com Colin Kaepernick isn\u2019t just an athlete with a platform \u2014 \u201che\u2019s the spokesperson for the black culture\u201d \u2026 so says rapper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}