It was 1987 when Teresa and Rick proudly adopted their baby boy. Clearly headed toward a life of questionable twists and turns, Heidi Russo gave up her newborn son to save him from any unfortunate circumstances he might face on his way to adulthood.
As can be evidenced from tragic tales splashed throughout the news, virtually any family can be subject to situations that often wind up with less-than-ideal results. Growing up fatherless would be an additional, unneeded handicap in an already difficult world.
But Heidi’s newborn would be the product of a white mother and a black father. As fate would have it, Teresa and Rick are white and simply adored their new family addition from the instant they were introduced to him by an adoption agency, according to People magazine.
Teresa and Rick were both gainfully employed – Rick served as an executive in the diary industry, while Teresa worked as a registered nurse. Both had two biological children who they lost to congenital heart problems early in life, while happily other biological children, son Kyle, and daughter Devon, were born healthy.
This young baby would be their opportunity to raise another healthy child without the fear of another congenital handicap. And all parties involved in this semi-complex adoption would live happily ever after.
Almost.
The baby in question was named Colin. Teresa and Rick’s surname is Kaepernick, thereby resulting in the tale of Colin Kaepernick.
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| St. Colin and his parents |
Colin grew up in a white world as a black child. His parents were attempted to rear Colin as a responsible, successful, caring citizen. It didn’t matter that the loving, gracious Kaepernick’s were simply delighted to nurture, mold, and shape their adoptive son into a conscientious American citizen, of whom everyone could be proud.
Wanting for little, Colin was raised living a life some would call privileged; he received a good education, solid values, and excellent work ethic which would make many other families jealous. But it was the norm for the Kaepernick family – Colin included.
Unfortunately, Colin faced tragedies in his otherwise ideal life when dealing with Teresa and Rick, some of which plague him until today.
Take, for example, when Colin “wanted to get cornrows, and his mom pushed back, calling the hairstyle ‘unprofessional’ and that he would look like ‘a little thug,’” states People magazine.
Alas, the truth finally arises from a privileged athlete who was raised and nurtured by a white couple trying to give young Colin the most direct, problem-free direction on the road to success.
The good news is that Colin eventually left the fold to pursue a career as a professional football player (not soccer, but real football.)
In doing so, he discovered the world was not as perfect as his life had been previously. Soon, his quarterback job for the San Francisco 49ers was something for which he had not prepared, by simply believing he could make up his own rules in someone else’s world.
After several lackluster years with the 49ers, Colin felt compelled to express himself as a downtrodden black man who should employ his blackness to right all societal wrongs.
The safest way to do that was to kneel for the National Anthem before a football game. He claimed he was merely protesting police brutality and racial injustice. Those are awfully noble causes coming from a man whose life has been a ride of privilege on the proverbial gravy train up until now.
Attending quality schools, living in safe communities, and hobnobbing with A-listers apparently did nothing except cause resentment in poor Colin’s life.
Suddenly he was thrust into the national spotlight as an up-and-coming professional whiner. And he did not disappoint.
Along the way, his parents stood solidly beside him because that’s what most parents do. But to have your white noses rubbed into the scat of pubic displays of manufactured racial anger would only cause more pain – pain to less loving parents, that is.
It wasn’t long before the systemic racism of hate for the white portion of America exuded from Colin’s undignified mouth who felt it necessary to rally blacks and weak-minded other members of humanity against the greatest country in Earth.
To prove he stands with the black community first and foremost, Colin found a soul mate that appears white, but is also of a mixed race relationship. She happily stands beside her paramour, as she should.
And all is well in America.
Too bad Colin is not the deep thinker he professes to be, though.
Had Heidi Ross not given birth to the ungrateful Colin Kaepernick, but rather opted for an abortion, we would not be wasting our time writing and reading this exposé of the ultimate degree of selfishness.
It’s good that Teresa and Rick still have love for this narcissist.
