{"id":972213,"date":"2021-11-05T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972213"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T16:59:44","slug":"colin-kaepernick-insults-fresh-prince-character-carlton-banks-but-banks-addressed-people-like-kaepernick-in-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colin-kaepernick-insults-fresh-prince-character-carlton-banks-but-banks-addressed-people-like-kaepernick-in-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick Insults \u2018Fresh Prince\u2019 Character Carlton Banks, But Banks Addressed People Like Kaepernick In 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolin-kaepernick-insults-fresh-prince-character-carlton-banks-but-banks-addressed-people-like-kaepernick-in-1993%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback-turned-activist who helped start the anthem protest trend, has a new Netflix series called \u201cColin in Black &amp; White,\u201d which follows his transformation into an activist.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the series, Kaepernick insists that beloved black sitcom characters like Steve Urkel from \u201cFamily Matters\u201d and Carlton Banks from \u201cThe Fresh Prince Of Bel Air\u201d are actually a sign of racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, there have been some very popular TV shows starring black people,\u201d Kaepernick&nbsp;says&nbsp;in the series. \u201cThese shows share archetypal black characters, including social outcasts who assimilate or conform, like Carlton Banks or Steve Urkel. White people love these dudes. Everything from the way they dress, the way they talk, even the way they dance. It\u2019s all so [non]threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese characters have come to be known by the term \u2018acceptable negro,\u2019\u201d Kaepernick added. \u201cThe acceptable negro is a black character who inhabits white characteristics, who makes white people feel comfortable. The acceptable negro is a white man\u2019s creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as the Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/carlton-banks-of-the-fresh-prince-had-a-few-words-for-bigots-like-colin-kaepernick\">noted<\/a>, the character of Carlton Banks was beloved by \u201cthe nonwhite television creators who put him on the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes Benny Medina, who originally came up with the idea for the show, and legendary producer Quincy Jones,\u201d the outlet wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As the Examiner pointed out, there was an episode of \u201cFresh Prince\u201d that aired in 1993 where Banks is called a \u201csellout\u201d because he acts too \u201cWhite.\u201d From the Examiner:<\/p>\n<p><em>Perhaps even more ironic is that there was an episode of&nbsp;The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air&nbsp;that tackled the very same bigotry about Carlton Banks that Kaepernick is displaying today. It happened all the way back in 1993. In \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y89uaJuFEMQ\">Blood is Thicker than Mud&nbsp;<\/a>,\u201d Smith and Banks are pledging to a fraternity. The fraternity leader likes Smith but thinks Banks acts too \u201cwhite.\u201d He refers to Carlton as a sellout. One of the most exemplary dialogues of the entire series occurs when Carlton confronts the fraternity leader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou think I\u2019m a sellout. Why, because I live in a big house or I dress a certain way?\u201d Banks says. \u201cBeing black isn\u2019t what I\u2019m trying to be, it\u2019s what I am. I\u2019m running the same race and jumping the same hurdles you are, so why are you tripping me up? You said we need to stick together, but you don\u2019t even know what that means. If you ask me, you\u2019re the real sellout.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This was said in 1993, but Kaepernick really needs<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback-turned-activist who helped start the anthem protest trend, has a new Netflix series called \u201cColin in Black &#038; White,\u201d which follows his transformation into an activist.At one point in the series, Kaepernick insists that beloved black sitcom characters like Steve Urkel from \u201cFamily Matters\u201d and Carlton Banks from \u201cThe Fresh Prince Of Bel Air\u201d are actually a sign of racism.\u201cOver the years, there have been some very popular TV shows starring black people,\u201d Kaepernick\u00a0says\u00a0in the series. \u201cThese shows share archetypal black characters, including social outcasts who assimilate or conform, like Carlton Banks or Steve Urkel. White people love these dudes. Everything from the way they dress, the way they talk, even the way they dance. It\u2019s all so [non]threatening.\u201d\u201cThese characters have come to be known by the term \u2018acceptable negro,\u2019\u201d Kaepernick added. \u201cThe acceptable negro is a black character who inhabits white characteristics, who makes white people feel comfortable. The acceptable negro is a white man\u2019s creation.\u201dBut as the Washington Examiner noted, the character of Carlton Banks was beloved by \u201cthe nonwhite television creators who put him on the screen.\u201d\u201cThat includes Benny Medina, who originally came up with the idea for the show, and legendary producer Quincy Jones,\u201d the outlet wrote.As the Examiner pointed out, there was an episode of \u201cFresh Prince\u201d that aired in 1993 where Banks is called a \u201csellout\u201d because he acts too \u201cWhite.\u201d From the Examiner:Perhaps even more ironic is that there was an episode of\u00a0The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\u00a0that tackled the very same bigotry about Carlton Banks that Kaepernick is displaying today. It happened all the way back in 1993. In \u201cBlood is Thicker than Mud\u00a0,\u201d Smith and Banks are pledging to a fraternity. The fraternity leader likes Smith but thinks Banks acts too \u201cwhite.\u201d He refers to Carlton as a sellout. One of the most exemplary dialogues of the entire series occurs when Carlton confronts the fraternity leader.\u201cYou think I\u2019m a sellout. Why, because I live in a big house or I dress a certain way?\u201d Banks says. \u201cBeing black isn\u2019t what I\u2019m trying to be, it\u2019s what I am. I\u2019m running the same race and jumping the same hurdles you are, so why are you tripping me up? You said we need to stick together, but you don\u2019t even know what that means. If you ask me, you\u2019re the real sellout.\u201dThis was said in 1993, but Kaepernick really needs to hear it in 2021.This was the second time in a week that Kaepernick has been called out for his activism. On Monday, former NFL player Jack Brewer\u00a0said Kaepernick\u2019s message was damaging to young black men in America.\u201cThis new Colin Kaepernick doctrine that\u2019s penetrating the minds and hearts of so many of our underserved black kids across America is the single largest threat to black men in the United States of America,\u201d Brewer told Fox News. \u201cBecause right now, folks are thinking that they\u2019re victims, and they\u2019re living in the most prosperous, the most opportunity, in any country in the world. And so this one hurts me, because every day I get up, and I go out and try to help young African American boys become men, and try to instill those values. And when you have someone like this, who has the audacity to call multi-millionaires \u2018slaves\u2019 and compare a process of someone living their dream, going to the National Football League, comparing that to slavery, it\u2019s gone over overboard.\u201d\u201cAnd I think Colin Kaepernick needs to do some soul searching, you just watched that video, you see how dark it is, and to take the most fragmented, the most vulnerable population we have in America, where we have kids that 70% of them don\u2019t have fathers, most, a lot of them can\u2019t, their reading and math proficiency levels rate against third world countries,\u201d he added. \u201cYou have kids that are already hopeless and then you go out and push this mentality and you\u2019re supposed to be someone that\u2019s a leader. Think about the movement that this guy started, the opportunity that he has, that he could actually come in and promote positivity to young black and African American men and tell him how great this country is. He doesn\u2019t have that spirit, and he has an evil anti-American spirit, it is sick and disgusting to think that.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}