On Monday, Michael Vick gave Colin Kaepernick some questionable advice regarding how to end his ongoing unemployment, telling the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback to improve his image by cutting his hair.
Less than a day later, Kaepernick appeared to respond to Vick's comments with a tweet about Stockholm syndrome.
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 18, 2017
Kaepernick's tweet could be unrelated, but it seems as if he's criticizing Vick for advising him to appease NFL owners and teams by hiding his heritage, which would be a direct contradiction to Kaepernick's anthem protest against social injustice and racial prejudice from last season.
"First thing we've got to get Colin to do is cut his hair," Vick said. "Listen, I'm not up here to try to be politically correct. Even if he puts cornrows in there. I don't think he should represent himself in that way. Just the hairstyle. Just go clean-cut. You know, why not? You're already dealing with a lot ...
"He's just got to be presentable."
Kaepernick said last season that he decided to grow his hair into an Afro as he learned more about his African ancestral routes. His biological father's ancestors are from Ghana and Nigeria, which the 29-year-old discovered last year using a DNA test.
