Harrison sorry for saying QB ‘not black’

Colin Kaepernick has become the contentious face of defiance in the NFL after pledging to protest the national anthem. That face isn’t black enough to know true racism, a two-time Super Bowl champion said before issuing an apology.

“I tell you this, I’m a black man. And Colin Kaepernick — he’s not black,” longtime Charger and Patriot Rodney Harrison, now an NBC analyst, told a Houston radio station Tuesday. “He cannot understand what I face and what other young black men and black people face, or people of color face, on a every single [day] basis. When you walk in a grocery store, and you might have $2,000 or $3,000 in your pocket and you go up into a Foot Locker and they’re looking at you like you about to steal something.

“You know, I don’t think he faces those type of things that we face on a daily basis.”

Kaepernick, who has been refusing to stand to salute a country “that oppresses black people and people of color,” is biracial, with a biologically white mother and black father, and was raised by a white couple after being adopted. Harrison later apologized, saying he wasn’t aware of Kaepernick’s racial identity.

“I never intended to offend anyone, I was trying to speak about my experiences as a African American,” Harrison tweeted.

“I apologize to anyone that I offended, wasn’t meant to be hurtful to anyone. God bless.”

“I should not have called Colin Kaepernick’s race into question during this morning’s radio interview. It was a mistake and I apologize.”

Earlier, the 43-year-old Harrison, a longtime safety who last played in the NFL in 2008, suggested Kaepernick couldn’t comprehend the struggles black people face.