Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. The Reverend Jesse Jackson has weighed in
Speaker 1: on the NFL protests. It's a take that only he
Speaker 1: could come up with, because he's dead wrong about everything.
Speaker 1: He was on Fox Sports one. First, he accused the
Speaker 1: NFL of committing illegal workplace harassment because he says the
Speaker 1: NFL allows owners to cut players that protest the anthem
Speaker 1: without having to pay out the full contract, unlike Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. In the NBA, they can cut players, but
Speaker 1: not because of the anthem protests. There's no question in
Speaker 1: his mind that Colin Kaepernick was the victim of collusion
Speaker 1: since he hasn't been picked up by any other team.
Speaker 1: Reverend Jackson took issue with the Star Spangled banner itself
Speaker 1: because it was written by a slave owner and has
Speaker 1: offensive lyrics in one of the verses. But the kicker
Speaker 1: is this quote from the Reverend Jackson. To go from
Speaker 1: picking cotton balls to picking footballs and basketballs without freedom
Speaker 1: is not very much progress. Now. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many football or basket ball players picked cotton balls before
Speaker 1: being signed by professional sports teams, but I guess not
Speaker 1: very many. Larger point is this, if Jesse Jackson is
Speaker 1: correcting his claim that protesting football players don't have freedom,
Speaker 1: that they are just as oppressed as slaves picking cotton
Speaker 1: word two centuries ago, while they earn millions more than
Speaker 1: average Americans. Then, the entire civil rights movement has been
Speaker 1: a total bust with him leading it. H