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‘The View’ Derails As Hosts Fight Over Kaepernick Comparing NFL To Slavery

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The ABC talk show “The View” went completely off the rails this week as cohosts Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and Michelle Tafoya fought it out over Colin Kaepernick comparing the NFL to slavery.

Kaepernick makes this comparison in his new Netflix documentary “Colin In Black & White,” which you can check out below.

Full story: Colin Kaepernick Gets Destroyed For Equating NFL Draft Process To A Slave Auction

‘The View’ Hosts Debate Colin Kaepernick’s NFL – Slavery Comparison

NBC Sunday Night Football reporter Michelle Tafoya, who is guest hosting “The View” this week, was not having any of it.

“No one pressures them. They’re not forced to go into the NFL,” Tafoya said in response to co-host Sara Haines calling the comparison “not a far stretch.”

“I’ve been covering the NFL for 25 years. Nobody forces these guys to play,” she added. “I thought comparing it to the slave trade was a little rough … These guys enter willingly, they are the most well cared for people. Yes they play a hard sport, and every one of them, Black, White, Latino, whoever’s playing the sport, will tell you how much they love it and they’re willing to do it and they make a damn good living.”

Sunny Hostin Defends Colin Kaepernick

Cohost Sunny Hostin disagreed with Tafoya.

“The majority of the owners of the NFL are White men,” she explained. “The majority of the players are Black men. So there is – that comparison that he makes to slave owners and slaves is not, sort of, totally unreasonable or out of bounds.”

Tafoya fired back by pointing out that in an interview Hostin conducted with Kaepernick last month, he gushed over how much he loves the NFL and how badly he wants to play again.

“He loves the sport but the White owners have prevented him from doing it,” Hostin claimed. “They’ve colluded and they have all the power to prevent him from doing the one thing that he loves. That’s the power dynamic.”

“If they believed he could win them a Super Bowl, he would be on a team right now. I promise you that,” Tafoya shot back before the show cut to commercial.

‘The View’ Fight Over Kaepernick’s NFL – Slavery Comparison Escalates

When the show returned, the argument started back up again.

“The reason he is not playing is because other owners have colluded together – ” Hostin began, before Tafoya interrupted her by saying that she should be careful to make these kinds of accusations.

Hostin then claimed that Kaepernick is no longer playing because he took a stand on racial issues and “lost everything.”

“There is no owner in the NFL, to this day, that has the courage to take him back,” she alleged.

Tafoya continued to fight by pointing out that Kaepernick hasn’t lost anything and has instead gained “a whole lot,” citing his Netflix special and Nike endorsement deal.

“He lost the one thing he wants to do,” Hostin responded.

“I don’t get to do what I want to do either and sometimes life just ain’t fair and it sucks,” Tafoya said bluntly to end the segment.

The left has tried to turn Colin Kaepernick into some kind of “woke” martyr, acting like he is a victim when he has instead made millions off shaming both the NFL and America.

You can watch this full segment from “The View” below.

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