Colin Kaepernick believes Jay-Z has a ‘guilty conscience’ over deals with NFL and Target
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Key Points:
- Colin Kaepernick believes Jay-Z's recent disparaging comments about him reflect a "guilty conscience" amid their deepening fallout, following Jay-Z's freestyle diss referencing Kaepernick's NFL settlement.
- Jay-Z criticized Kaepernick during a July concert, accusing him of taking a settlement check from the NFL and signing a non-disparagement agreement, claims Kaepernick denies, stating he did not sign such an agreement.
- Their relationship soured after Jay-Z's 2019 partnership between his Roc Nation company and the NFL, which many viewed as a betrayal of Kaepernick, who remains unsigned by the league after his anthem protests.
- Kaepernick continues to honor the boycott of Target, which Jay-Z partnered with despite criticism over its rollback of diversity initiatives; Kaepernick will not sell his memoir at Target and is instead working with the National Association of Black Bookstores.
- Kaepernick emphasized that while he understands Jay-Z's attempts at reputational recovery, he will let his actions and activism speak for themselves rather than responding to every criticism.
