In the new docuseries, "Colin in Black and White," former NFL QB Colin Kaepernick compares slavery to the NFL. The guys of My Mic Sounds Nice understood why he did that.
With the exploitive power dynamic of the owners over the players and the NFL combine's herding of bodies during the thorough, reductive, impersonal physical examination of the draft class, the parallels to slavery are clear, but are they justified?
Comparing a lucrative job that pays in the one percentile to brutal chattel slavery is quite a statement. We unpacked this show like we just returned from a three-week vacation. Join us on this special one-topic episode.