Kaepernick was born in 1987 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, a 19-year-old who was single at the time.
His birth father, an African American man, left Russo before Colin was born. Russo placed Colin for adoption with Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple who had two children—son Kyle and daughter Devon—and were looking for a boy after losing two other sons to
heart defects. Kaepernick became the youngest of their three children. He lived in
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, until age four, and attended grade school in
Turlock, California.
Colin Kaepernick - Wikipedia
nuff said.