Watkins said stances like Kaepernick's "has historically not ended well, however, there was the expectation that as a country that we had become more evolved. And what has happened to Colin Kaepernick has proven that we have not; that what he has spoken out against has been on our TV screens, has been on our social media, and we have chosen to be willfully ignorant to the realities that exist in this country around racial and economic inequity," she said.