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Speaker 3: Job, he is Ramsys John, I am Q ward one
Speaker 3: time for Magnie because she'd be knowing indeed, and we.
Speaker 1: Still got more show for you to stick around for.
Speaker 1: So do just that. We're gonna be talking about, uh,
Speaker 1: the repercussions for police, whether or not they have them,
Speaker 1: and what they look like.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry every time you say something like that last
Speaker 3: it sounds pretty funny, because but listen, if.
Speaker 1: Police get to be if if we are people, we
Speaker 1: make mistakes, police are people, they make mistakes, we get
Speaker 1: held accountable, do they? We're gonna talk about that. Also,
Speaker 1: we're gonna use our way black history fact to discuss
Speaker 1: the recently passed away mister Bill Russell, Uh, the NBA
Speaker 1: great who was also a civil rights activist, and we
Speaker 1: felt it was important to tell his story. So Q
Speaker 1: is going to be spearheading that effort when we get
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Speaker 1: do cops have repercussions or nah? That's how it was written.
Speaker 1: I like that, so I'll do a little bit of
Speaker 1: reading before we start breaking this down. Versus comes from
Speaker 1: the Washington Post. Police think they can get away with anything.
Speaker 1: That's because they usually do. That's the title. That crazy,
Speaker 1: all right? Only a tiny percentage of complaints against police
Speaker 1: are acted on. Research conducted with the journalism organization The
Speaker 1: Invisible Institute suggests that ignoring complaints, even multiple complaints about
Speaker 1: one officer, is not the exception, but the norm in
Speaker 1: police departments. I don't want to pause real quick. I
Speaker 1: think that that shows how easy it is for people
Speaker 1: to not really think police are the greatest. I get
Speaker 1: that there's you know, some bad apples. Sure most police
Speaker 1: are decent folk, sure, right, But to know that the
Speaker 1: framework doesn't really prioritize complaints about police misconduct, multiple offenses
Speaker 1: by one officer and so forth, it erodes the faith
Speaker 1: that the community would have in police departments around the country.
Speaker 1: And then there's this obviously in a world like today,
Speaker 1: where we share information, we share data. We know what's
Speaker 1: happening in Louisiana, we know what's happening in Oregon. You know,
Speaker 1: policing is kind of like a catch all. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it just only happens here or there. No,
Speaker 1: we have data that tells the story about the whole country.
Speaker 3: It's a super complex thing to address, though, Okay, right,
Speaker 3: in any instance where there's a body that has authority
Speaker 3: over another, by nature, there's going to be complaints. So
Speaker 3: that makes this very complex. Of course, if they.
Speaker 1: Surveyed our children, they would tell the world we were tyrants.
Speaker 3: He makes me go to bed early, It makes me
Speaker 3: do my homework, he makes me get up early, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So the same with people that
Speaker 3: work for you, the same with I guess any group
Speaker 3: of people that are somehow put into a hierarchy deficiency
Speaker 3: versus another. I think, by nature of it, they treat
Speaker 3: complaints like, well, yeah, of course they're going to complain
Speaker 3: about the people that pull them over and give them tickets,
Speaker 3: incite them for this and this and that. So I
Speaker 3: think they by nature treat the complaints as cavalier and
Speaker 3: just a part of the job, not as something to
Speaker 3: take seriously, which is ridiculous. But from that vantage point,
Speaker 3: I can understand how a system could put itself in
Speaker 3: a position to just almost ignore the complaints of those
Speaker 3: who are under the thumb of the authoritative you know,
Speaker 3: policing around them.
Speaker 1: You know what else is kind of weird about this
Speaker 1: is that there's this sort of weird question that I
Speaker 1: think everyone has to ask themselves at some point in
Speaker 1: their lives, because it's just such an obvious gaping fail point,
Speaker 1: failure point in terms of the structure. Who do you
Speaker 1: call when the police are the bad guys? Another way
Speaker 1: of thinking about it is, if the police are the
Speaker 1: ones doing the investigating, who investigates the police? Is it
Speaker 1: the police?
Speaker 3: So I can specifically answer that as the nephew of
Speaker 3: former Chief Inspector Harold Scott internal Affairs of the Detroit
Speaker 3: Police Department. Yes, the police investigate the police. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: how about that.
Speaker 1: Now let me make another addition to the first point
Speaker 1: that we made here. So a more troubling component here
Speaker 1: is this is back from the Washington Post reading that
Speaker 1: we were doing. More troubling component is the racial disparity
Speaker 1: in the responses to the complaints. So watch this. Three
Speaker 1: percent one two three, that's it, three percent of complaints
Speaker 1: initiated by black citizens were sustained. That means that if
Speaker 1: you took one hundred black people that took the time
Speaker 1: to complain, if you're going to complain about an officer
Speaker 1: and make it formal the theory, my operating assumption is
Speaker 1: that you feel like you're on some solid ground there
Speaker 1: to formalize your complaint. Right, So if you'll let me
Speaker 1: have that, and in this thought experiment we have here,
Speaker 1: there are one hundred black people that are submitting these,
Speaker 1: again what they feel are valid complaints against these police officers. Again,
Speaker 1: quote protect and serve quote unquote, you know, we pay taxes,
Speaker 1: you work for us. That sort of thing you know,
Speaker 1: three percent, that's three of those Black people have their
Speaker 1: complaints sustained. Ninety seven of them nothing happens. Okay, hang out.
Speaker 3: Those people are by nature criminals, then of course they're
Speaker 3: going to have complaints about the police.
Speaker 1: See and your point out you're being funny, obviously, but
Speaker 1: you're pointing out the breakdown, and that the the the
Speaker 1: assumption by the police, and a lot of people that
Speaker 1: read these statistics, society and large body feel that way,
Speaker 1: that that well, you know, you shouldn't run if you
Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong, you don't that's the same attitude.
Speaker 1: Now watch this. Twenty one percent of white complaints. White
Speaker 1: complainants had their complaints sustained. So we go from three
Speaker 1: percent if you're black to twenty one percent if you're white,
Speaker 1: seven times as many. Sure, but even the twenty one percent, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's we could have a whole show based on
Speaker 1: that chasm right there. Wow, But even with white people
Speaker 1: complaining about officers, you're still talking approximately eighty twenty in
Speaker 1: favor of the officers. Your complain is not valid. And
Speaker 1: we know I don't mean for this to sound the
Speaker 1: way that it's about to sound, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: just power through it. Then when that if there is
Speaker 1: a group of people on this planet, they know how
Speaker 1: to complain. So listen, so listen. What I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say is what I'm trying to say is I don't
Speaker 1: think these complaints are just throwing thrown together, that these
Speaker 1: people are just like whatever. No, these people are serious.
Speaker 1: And even then only twenty and they got the right
Speaker 1: you know, they got the right story in this country,
Speaker 1: They got the right grounds to stand on for these
Speaker 1: you know, complaints to be heard. And at least in
Speaker 1: their minds, they think that these complains are valid. And
Speaker 1: we're talking eighty percent of the time they're showing the
Speaker 1: door as well. Right, So, I think that they're great
Speaker 1: at complaining when it's necessary. They they will switch up
Speaker 1: their whole life to get that complain off. I've seen
Speaker 1: it happen, so, you know, and it's sometimes that's helpful. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, we got friends and they got moms, and
Speaker 1: they'll get us back our stuff. You know, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: get the start to return the merchandise or whatever however
Speaker 1: it ends up going. But the long and the short
Speaker 1: of it is that we're we're talking about policing as
Speaker 1: it relates to all of us, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And obviously, being black, we're kind of at the we
Speaker 1: get the worst end of it. We always talk we're
Speaker 1: like the worst of the statistics. Everything bad happens to
Speaker 1: us the most most frequently, all the time throughout the
Speaker 1: history of ever Well, at least throughout the history of
Speaker 1: the window ever Well, once upon a time before the
Speaker 1: mass pillage and rape of Africa and her resources, colonization
Speaker 1: and gross colonization, sure of Africa and her resources, we're
Speaker 1: talking about a fair playing field for the most part
Speaker 1: across the world. You don't know this history because you
Speaker 1: got to pay attention to who's teaching you this history.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you're talking about ancient Greece and
Speaker 1: you know you look at the architecture and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, all that stuff was learned in Africa
Speaker 1: by African teachers. You know, everything everything starts in Africa.
Speaker 1: I know this stuff because obviously I had to know it,
Speaker 1: and doctor Westerberg was my teacher. But I'm not making
Speaker 1: that up. You can, it's actually you can research all
Speaker 1: this stuff. But you know, here we are today having
Speaker 1: to deal with these numbers and in this country at
Speaker 1: least a lot of what we have to deal with
Speaker 1: feels very unfair. One of the things that while we're here,
Speaker 1: one of the things that I brought up in a
Speaker 1: conversation more recently was the myth that black men don't
Speaker 1: take care of our children, right, is a very very
Speaker 1: harmful myth that was created in I believe it was
Speaker 1: the fifties by a Democrat, a liberal Democrat, who was
Speaker 1: trying to find a reason for uh uh, economic inequality
Speaker 1: black families and non black white families. Right. He's trying
Speaker 1: to find the basis for this. And what this liberal gentleman,
Speaker 1: I forget his name, but what he found out in
Speaker 1: his published report that became sort of the bible when
Speaker 1: it came to dealing with black people in economics in
Speaker 1: this country for many years. What he found was that
Speaker 1: the black family structure was broken, and as a result
Speaker 1: of that, that black people were suffering economic disadvantages. Right now.
Speaker 1: His report did not account for let me let me,
Speaker 1: let me, uh consult my list here housing this crimination.
Speaker 1: It did not account for environmental racism, It did not
Speaker 1: account for the corrupt criminal justice system. It did not
Speaker 1: count for account for the the lack of teaching and
Speaker 1: the educational inequities. It did not account for improper funding
Speaker 1: of the GI Bill and the promises to Black Americans.
Speaker 1: It did not account for redlining and the disenfranchisement of
Speaker 1: the Black voat. It did not account for drugs and
Speaker 1: the way the drugs have been criminalized in this country
Speaker 1: with respect to black people in particular, And that list
Speaker 1: goes on. You get what I'm trying to say. This
Speaker 1: guy singularly said the reason that black people don't have
Speaker 1: money is because black fathers are not in the homes.
Speaker 1: And that started this myth. Right, first off, it wasn't true,
Speaker 1: but his basis was marriage rates and the birth rates
Speaker 1: of black children. Right, I'm telling you, like you don't know,
Speaker 1: but our listeners don't know. So some of our listeners
Speaker 1: don't know I've died. Imagine a good chunk, because this
Speaker 1: is a common thing that we have to talk to
Speaker 1: on the talk about on the show and in general.
Speaker 1: But so what happens is if you're black, or you
Speaker 1: know someone black, are brown, someone poor, even you might
Speaker 1: know this story. So let's go back to like the thirties,
Speaker 1: right in the thirties, the Great Depression. Imagine a poor
Speaker 1: family during the Great Depression. How does that family look.
Speaker 1: Are they white? Yes? Why? Because those are the people
Speaker 1: receiving aid from the government. Those are the people that
Speaker 1: are in the pictures that you remember that jumped into
Speaker 1: your mind when I gave you that example. Right, But
Speaker 1: imagine how hard black people were hit during that time
Speaker 1: and what resources black people had because the country was
Speaker 1: way more racist back then, so black people was way
Speaker 1: at the back of that line. Right. But how you
Speaker 1: could get a little bit more compassion, a little bit
Speaker 1: more empathy is if you were a mother, a woman
Speaker 1: who was a mother and unmarried, right, So again you
Speaker 1: might know people who operate this way. So what this
Speaker 1: means is that either this mother cannot claim that she
Speaker 1: lives in a house with the children's father, her partner, husband,
Speaker 1: et cetera, so that goes undocumented, which results in later
Speaker 1: decades these statistics that create this myth that black fathers
Speaker 1: don't exist in our children's lives, because that's how you
Speaker 1: are able to cheat the system in order to get
Speaker 1: what is owed to you by this country despite your blackness,
Speaker 1: to have enough food and enough economic opportunities to you know,
Speaker 1: take care of yourself and your family. Furthermore, it doesn't
Speaker 1: account for the fact that there is a large migration
Speaker 1: of black people from the South to the north, places
Speaker 1: like Detroit where you're from the automotive industry, and other
Speaker 1: places you know in Chicago and you know, Michigan and
Speaker 1: places like that where black people were able to find
Speaker 1: job opportunities. Right, So this man just decides that, Okay,
Speaker 1: black fathers are not in their homes, not that they're
Speaker 1: not providing none of this sort of stuff. And this
Speaker 1: is why it's important for there to be more black researchers,
Speaker 1: because they might have known, Okay, well, maybe there's something
Speaker 1: else that we need to look into. Right. Part of
Speaker 1: the criminal.
Speaker 3: Diabolical peace and the way that narrative is presented, it's
Speaker 3: not just that they don't account for all of those
Speaker 3: factors that you said, is that they make it out
Speaker 3: to be the choice of the black father to be absent.
Speaker 1: So that so let me go in, let me lean
Speaker 1: into that part. So I've heard it said like this before.
Speaker 1: Rather than fulfilling its promise, this country's promise to black people,
Speaker 1: this country would rather have black people feel like we
Speaker 1: are the source of our own problems. Right now, I
Speaker 1: don't want the wrong people to hear that and run
Speaker 1: with it, because everybody has to be responsible for themselves.
Speaker 1: Every community has a degree of responsibility for the community,
Speaker 1: the culture, etc. Right. But if we're talking about systemic issues,
Speaker 1: I think that we have to take everything into consideration. Right.
Speaker 1: But this myth about absent black fathers has been so
Speaker 1: influential that even we black people feel like it's true.
Speaker 1: And it's not to say it doesn't happen, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen to a degree that is uh unique to
Speaker 1: black people. In other words, white families have absent fathers.
Speaker 1: Don't say.
Speaker 3: Don't say with that much grace, though, because it's not.
Speaker 3: It's not just that it doesn't happen the way that
Speaker 3: it's depicted. It's actually polarity. Polarity, the polarity of the
Speaker 3: opposite is quite as far the opposite distance as you
Speaker 3: can use as a word for that. The statistics tell
Speaker 3: a story that is the polar opposite of the narrative.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you tell them.
Speaker 3: The most present, most involved, most involved group of people
Speaker 3: as fathers in this country is the Black American man.
Speaker 1: Can you cite the source of that? I cannot, Well,
Speaker 1: I can. That comes from the CDC's twenty thirteen study
Speaker 1: based on census data and government funding. Right, so it
Speaker 1: is a government backed report that was done that confirms
Speaker 1: what many people long held to be true, is that
Speaker 1: that couldn't be the case. Black men don't love our children. See.
Speaker 1: The thing is, one of the things that I was
Speaker 1: saying when I was having a conversation with another friend
Speaker 1: of mine of ours, is that anything that has to
Speaker 1: do with African American people, if it doesn't sound right,
Speaker 1: do yourself a favor and remove the word American. Now
Speaker 1: you're just dealing with African people. Does it still sound
Speaker 1: the same? In other words, African American men don't raise
Speaker 1: their children. That don't sound right. Take away the American part.
Speaker 1: African men don't raise their children. That don't sound right.
Speaker 1: So what word did we take out? The American word? Okay?
Speaker 1: So now we have to look at America. What's going
Speaker 1: on in America? Okay? Is America creating a set of
Speaker 1: circumstances or is there something going on in society in America?
Speaker 1: Or are Black people just bad? And the thing is,
Speaker 1: you can't just say Black people are just bad because
Speaker 1: guess what, African men you canse their kids.
Speaker 3: You can say it well, and are they would do
Speaker 3: a lot of people that would agree with you, by
Speaker 3: the tens of millions, right, the people who came out
Speaker 3: and droves and shout out to everybody around the country
Speaker 3: who is using their right to vote. I just want
Speaker 3: to say that out loud because it's that time. But
Speaker 3: there are tens of millions of people.
Speaker 4: That that spin that right and that vote on a
Speaker 4: candidate based on the ideology that black people and Mexican
Speaker 4: people and anybody that's not you know, Christian and white
Speaker 4: is bad, criminal by nature.
Speaker 1: So of course it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But there are plenty of you know, claiming to be
Speaker 3: educated adult people in this country that say things out
Speaker 3: like that out loud and believe it.
Speaker 1: Well, the truth is that those people are wrong. Now
Speaker 1: back to police, I want to read this. So this
Speaker 1: one comes from This also comes from the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: So patterns demonstrate the larger truth that too often, instead
Speaker 1: of operating as an effective check on police abuses, complaint
Speaker 1: systems served to further disempower poor minority community members. The
Speaker 1: system offers the illusion that the police are listening to
Speaker 1: all residents, and then by repeatedly exciting with officers, the
Speaker 1: systems encourage officers to adopt a mindset that when black
Speaker 1: and brown citizens object to what they're doing, they're almost
Speaker 1: always wrong. That reinforces the officer's sense of untouchability. Now
Speaker 1: I want to add this before we move on. This
Speaker 1: comes from the New York Times. Justices rule, police do
Speaker 1: not have a constitutional duty to protect someone. This comes
Speaker 1: from June two thousand. You know, I don't even want
Speaker 1: to read that. Wow, but that's actual. That's an actual
Speaker 1: court case. I employ you to look it up because
Speaker 1: we don't have time to go into that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Justice's rule, police do not have a constitutional duty to
Speaker 1: protect someone. Meaning in Uvalde, kids was getting shot up
Speaker 1: in the classroom, the police are standing outside. They didn't
Speaker 1: break the law, I did, you know? Based on what
Speaker 1: these justices say, the police have no duty to protect
Speaker 1: the public. And then before we go, a final thought
Speaker 1: from our show producer to criticize their effectiveness in solving
Speaker 1: crimes in the aftermath. Further further is the propaganda. It
Speaker 1: assumes that police are acting in the interests of the
Speaker 1: public when there's no precedent that says they have to,
Speaker 1: and oftentimes they're false. Faith in them and moving forward,
Speaker 1: we need urgent change. So yeah, please look up that
Speaker 1: that ruling that the police do not have a constitutional
Speaker 1: duty to protection. Now sign for the Way Black History
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Speaker 1: That we lost.
Speaker 3: I had an opportunity to meet the great Bill Russell
Speaker 3: once upon a time at a charity event in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I had just gotten my first job out of college.
Speaker 3: Out in LA at a charity event for Marcus Allen,
Speaker 3: and Bill Russell was in attendance, and I was in
Speaker 3: all because, as you can imagine, as a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Sports fan, all of my sports heroes were there. So
Speaker 1: rest in peace to one of the greats, Bill Russell.
Speaker 1: He dies at eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Celtics Icon Hall of Famer an eleven time NBA champion,
Speaker 3: Bill Russell died peacefully with his family, and I think
Speaker 3: he recently relocated to Not recently, I think he spent
Speaker 3: most of his life after retiring from the NBA actually
Speaker 3: on an island off the coast of Washington, not in
Speaker 3: what you would assume to be the beloved Boston where
Speaker 3: he spent his entire professional career. Bill Russell, the NBA
Speaker 3: great who anchored the Boston Celtics dynasty to eleven championships
Speaker 3: in thirteen years. Such a crazy stat, the last two
Speaker 3: as the first black head coach. So it should be
Speaker 3: noted he was not just the coach but also still
Speaker 3: a player. So the first black head coach at major
Speaker 3: sports while still playing that sport.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: Mister Russell was not just a great athlete, but he
Speaker 3: also marched for civil rights with doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 3: His family posted the news on social media, saying he
Speaker 3: died with his wife on Jeanie by his side.
Speaker 1: They did not state the cause of death.
Speaker 3: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in his statement that Russell
Speaker 3: was the greatest champion in all of team sports.
Speaker 1: And you guys might notice that he's.
Speaker 3: Conspicuously left out of the greatest of all time athlete conversations.
Speaker 3: And I think the reason why is because no matter
Speaker 3: how you measure that, he so outwighs everyone else that
Speaker 3: it's not even fair. So he's called the greatest champion
Speaker 3: in team sports here because if you match him up
Speaker 3: against anyone else, he's got more championships, his winning percentage
Speaker 3: is higher. He's never lost the do or die game
Speaker 3: ever in twenty one chance.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is why you just rattl those staffs.
Speaker 1: They're not even written here. Yeah, so you're a sports guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a music guy. Man, let me be great.
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, five time Most Valuable Player, twelve time
Speaker 3: NBA All Star. Russell in nineteen eighty was voted the
Speaker 3: greatest player in NBA history by basketball writers. He remains
Speaker 3: the sport's most prolific winner as a player and archetype
Speaker 3: of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while leaving
Speaker 3: scoring to his teammates. Often that meant Will Chamberlain, the
Speaker 3: only player of the era who was ever a worthy
Speaker 3: rival for Russell, to be without championships. So he Will Chamberlain,
Speaker 3: one of the greatest athletes of all time, spent a
Speaker 3: lot of his career on the losing end of Bill Russell,
Speaker 3: even though a lot of people may have regarded him
Speaker 3: as a more gifted physical specimen. Russell said that when
Speaker 3: he was growing up in the segregated South and later California,
Speaker 3: his parents instilled in him a calm confidence that allowed
Speaker 3: him to brush off racist taunts. Now, Bill Russell, as
Speaker 3: I told you before, after he retired, left Massachusetts and
Speaker 3: moved as far away from Massachusetts as possible that we
Speaker 3: talked about it, and a lot of people would wonder why.
Speaker 3: And you and I have discussed sports fans in Boston,
Speaker 3: specifically while he was winning championships in Boston, right as
Speaker 3: he is the greatest player in the sport for their team.
Speaker 1: Eight championships in a row.
Speaker 3: While away, people broke into his home, dumped out his
Speaker 3: trash cans, and defecated around his house and in his bed.
Speaker 3: I'll let that soak in with you, guys for a minute.
Speaker 3: The hometown hero in that same hometown, still not given
Speaker 3: the level of dignity and respect to not break into vandalize,
Speaker 3: and if I need to be more specific, came home
Speaker 3: to human feces around his home and in his bed.
Speaker 3: I'll continue, I've never been through anything. From my first
Speaker 3: moment of being alive was the notion that my mother
Speaker 3: and father loved me. It was Russell's mother who would
Speaker 3: tell him to disregard comments from those who might see
Speaker 3: him playing in the yard. Whatever they say, good or bad,
Speaker 3: they don't know you. They're wrestling with their own demons.
Speaker 3: Bill was the ultimate winner and consummate teammate, and his
Speaker 3: influence on the NBA will be forever felt. Adam Silver
Speaker 3: added and I quote, we send our deepest condolences to
Speaker 3: his wife, Genie, his family, and many friends. His family
Speaker 3: said the arrangements for Russell's memories for his memorial service,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, We'll be announced in the coming days. The
Speaker 3: Celtics often celebrated Bill Russell. Bill Russell would celebrate those
Speaker 3: moments with his family and friends away from the team.
Speaker 3: He played for his teammates and for his coach, not
Speaker 3: for a city that never embraced him.
Speaker 1: I never loved him. I want to add this because
Speaker 1: I have a note here. It says that he was
Speaker 1: at the march on Washington in nineteen sixty three when
Speaker 1: Joster King gave his I Have a Dream speech, and
Speaker 1: he backed Muhammad Ali when the boxer was pilloried. I
Speaker 1: think that's that word a refusing induction into the military draft. Quote.
Speaker 1: To be the biggest, greatest champion of your sport, to
Speaker 1: revolutionize the way the game is played, and to be
Speaker 1: a societal leader all at once seems unthinkable, but that's
Speaker 1: who Bill Russell Russell was and quote, the Boston Celtics
Speaker 1: said in a statement. Twenty eleven, President Barack Obama awarded
Speaker 1: Russell the Medal of Freedom alongside Congressman John Lewis, billionaire
Speaker 1: investor Warren Buffett, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and baseball great
Speaker 1: Stan Mirosol so his activism.
Speaker 3: Also speaking of his activism in his eighties, Bill Russell
Speaker 3: joined Twitter, would you guess the reason why to stand
Speaker 3: in solidarity or to kneel in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick?
Speaker 3: That was Bill Russell.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that I'm glad that you took this one,
Speaker 1: because see, you know a little neat little things like that,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know what I do want to say.
Speaker 1: I don't know I think it take any shine away
Speaker 1: from anyone, but I do want to say this, all right,
Speaker 1: Yes I did play football in high school. Okay, I did.
Speaker 1: But it's because I read a book and it said
Speaker 1: that like seventy percent of millionaires play team sports or
Speaker 1: something in high school. So I was thinking, like, okay,
Speaker 1: if I play football, and give me a better chance
Speaker 1: of getting this money when I graduate. So that's the
Speaker 1: only reason I played, understood, So I'm familiar with how
Speaker 1: the game works. But the people that play I wasn't
Speaker 1: there because I was a passionate person. I was trying
Speaker 1: to get some bread and I'm I'm one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty pounds. Still knew I wasn't going to go to
Speaker 1: the NFL. I was just trying to play because that's
Speaker 1: what the book said, So you know, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: an athlete. All these music tattoos and we got, you know,
Speaker 1: anyway that's going to do it for us. On Civic
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