Colin Kaepernick is still upset that his mom wanted him to date Taylor Swift, a White woman

Saturday night, Colin Kaepernick and Jemele Hill spoke at the National Black Footwear Forum in Detroit , Michigan.

Their conversation focused primarily on, you guessed it, racism, as well as Kaepernick’s life and upcoming memoir, "The Perilous Fight." OutKick reporters attended the event, which did not permit questions.

One topic, in particular, caught our attention.

Hill told Kaepernick that she was struck by a story in his memoir about the time his mother wanted him to date Taylor Swift.

Hill and Kaepernick lamented that his mother wanted him to be with a girl like Swift, with the implication he wasn't interested in white women.

OutKick obtained a copy of Kaepernick’s new book, in which he tells that story about his mother and Swift: "Now that I had my own car, it was time for me to embrace another teenage rite of passage: a girlfriend.

I started seeing a very cute Black girl named Crystal.

Right away, I noticed how different I felt with her than in my own home.

I could talk to Crystal, really talk to her, without having to explain myself; it was a remarkable discovery, being understood up front and without question.

When I visited her home, I was stunned by how warm and welcoming her family was.

I immediately felt comfortable there," he begins.

"I asked Crystal to the homecoming dance, a formal affair involving fancy gowns, tuxedoes, and corsages.

We had a nice time at the dance.

When I got the official portrait from that night, featuring me and Crystal posed up in that classic, airbrushed frame, my mother hid it away in the back of a drawer." "My mother convinced me to ask Lindsay, the daughter of one of her friends, to the next formal dance.