5 tough questions Colin Kaepernick didn't hear during his media tour | Matt Calkins

There was a sit-down with Trevor Noah and a chat with Jemele Hill.Colin Kaepernick's face has been ubiquitous over the past few days as he's been promoting his new book "The Perilous Fight." But one thing has been conspicuously absent from the former NFL quarterback's press tour: a single probing question.I get that Kaepernick wants to avoid tension while hyping up his memoir.He isn't going to choose an interviewer he thinks might give him pushback.But it's been hard as a journalist to watch the wall-to-wall coddling of one of the most controversial figures of the past decade.

To me, the story has become what's not being asked.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Some examples.Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest during the national anthem before an NFL game against the Los Angeles Rams at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sept.

12, 2016.(Getty Images)OutKick’s Bobby Burack noted the absurdity of the slave-trade comparison Kaepernick made during an interview with former ESPN analyst Ryan Clark.

He said that he can draw a "parallel" between the combine and a slave auction because people are telling players to "strip down to your drawers."Never mind that the NFL is completely voluntary and has produced more Black millionaires than any other business in the country.To Kaepernick, it's on par with one of history's most brutal systems of human exploitation.Dumb? Yes.

But what's dumber is that Kaepernick also said he's been training every morning in case an NFL team gives him a call.In other words — this league reminds him of a horrifying institution ...

and he can't wait to get back.Former National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick speaks after receiving the newly established ACLU Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Arts, Business, Science and Sports at the ACLU Awards Ceremony at Washington Hilton in Washing...