EXCERPT:
BERMAN: "Let me play you just a little bit more because it gets to this."
DUVERNEY: "OK."
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KAEPERNICK [actor] (voice-over): " It turned out my competition wasn’t only on the field."
UNKNOWN MALE: "Look, you got a ton of natural talent, OK? But Johnson, he’s the prototype I’m looking for."
KAEPERNICK [actor] (voice-over): "Growing up with white parents, I assumed their privilege was mine."
UNKNOWN MALE: "You’re too good."
UNKNOWN MALE: "Fine thanks."
KAEPERNICK [actor]: "Yeah, I’m good too. Thanks."
KAEPERNICK [actor] (voice-over): "I was in for a rude awakening."
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BERMAN: "He was in for a rude awakening. So what did he go through you think, specifically that had that direct impact later on?"
DUVERNNEY: "I think it's just you know, ideas about privilege. He was in a privileged environment growing up as the adopted biracial son of white parents you know, he was moving through life as, you know, through a lens or a gaze of being someone who is not outside the dominant culture, being someone who did not have to struggle as much early on with issues of race or class or respectability. As he -- as he became older, those started to enter into his life in a way that was startling and challenging for him and his parents, not quite being able to handle, now a young black man lives with you, right? As he grew out of the kind of the cute toddler phase in elementary school phase, the challenges and struggles with race became more clear, became more defined, and all of them were kind of ill equipped to deal with it."
BERMAN: "You think you’re an insider until you realize —"
DUVERNEY: "That’s exactly what it was, yeah."
BERMAN: "Do you think he misses that time?"
DUVERNEY: "I don’t know. No, I think -- I think -- I think -- I mean, yes, he has such a sober look at it all, where he really looks at it as a formative time that made him who he is today. And from my interactions with him, which were extensive in this, he’s a really confident guy, positive guy. So, you know, I think — I’m hoping this piece shows is it's not just about Colin Kaepernick, you watch this and you think well, what are the steps on my journey? You know, all the little things that have happened that have changed the course of your life. And so we go through kind of six big events in his early childhood that really kind of change the course and made him who he is today."