After taking criticism in the last few days for comments about Fidel Castro, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick says that criticism was unfair.
Asked following today’s loss in Miami whether his comments crediting Castro for spending more money on schools than on prisons were taken out of context, Kaepernick said they were.
“Yes it was completely out of context. Once again, what I said was I support the investment in education. I���ve never said that I support the oppressive things that he did,” Kaepernick said.
Kaepernick’s comments came on a conference call with the Miami media last week, before Castro died. Kaepernick said today that people have misrepresented his support for Castro implementing a strong education system in Cuba as support for Castro’s entire regime.
“What I said was that I agree with the investment in education,” Kaepernick said. “I also agree with the investment in free universal health care. As well as the involvement in him helping end apartheid in South Africa. I would hope that everybody agrees that those things are good things. Trying to push the false narrative that I was a supporter of the oppressive things that he did, it’s just not true.”
Kaepernick was loudly booed by the fans in Miami, many of them Cuban-Americans whose families fled the Castro regime, when the 49ers took the field today.
