WEBVTT - S1 Episode 12: Black Lives Matter 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.880 Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutch Sports Group, 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:08.039 and I Heart Radio. It's been ten days since George 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:11.280 Floyd was brutally murdered. How many times do we need 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.320 to ask you to listen to your players? What will 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.600 it take for one of us to be murdered bout 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.640 police brutality? What if I was George Floyd, If I 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.720 was George Floyd, If I was George Floyd, if I 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.440 was George if I was George Floyd, George Floyd, I 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.160 am Brian, I am About, I am Eric, I am 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.880 Tamir Right Marker, I am Walking Scott, I am Michael Brown, 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.000 I am Samuel the Boys. I am Friend. I'm find 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:45.000 of wife Jordan Baker, who will not be silent in 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.240 the protest. It shouldn't take this long, Love, then so on, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.960 behalf of the National Football League. This is what we 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.000 the players would like to hear you. Stay. We National 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.840 condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people. Be 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.640 week National admit wrong and silence in our players from 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:10.720 peacefully protesting. We believe black lives matter. Black lives matters. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.319 Welcome back to Drafted. You just heard the biggest stars 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.000 in football from Super Bowl m v P Patrick Mahomes 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.360 Rookie of the Year sa Kwan Barkley, to this year's 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.160 number two draft pick, Washington rookie Chase Young, all of 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.320 them featured in a rogue viral video demanding change in 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:47.319 the NFL and our country. In previous episodes, we've gotten 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.120 a unique look at the lives of eight athletes entering 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.400 the National Football League, and now in the final installment 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.840 of this season of Drafted, these players are joining their 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.880 teams and beginning their careers in the middle of a 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:04.520 pandemic during a social revolution denouncing racial injustice, police brutality, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:10.160 and systemic oppression. People are protesting everywhere, during sporting events 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:27.520 and in the streets. For the first time in their careers, 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.400 the eight NFL rookies we've been hearing from will have 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.440 a major platform for their voices, one that has been 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:39.239 shrouded in political controversy since two thousand sixteen. It's almost 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.400 a three sixty going back to Kaepernick. That's Damarius Bilbo 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.760 from Clutched Sports Group, Like when you have a guy 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.520 that was as talented as he is and he stood 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.560 up for something and our our neil for something and 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.239 end up not being employed anymore. You know, it puts 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.360 fair in these guys. What began as a debate about 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.239 kneeling during the national anthem turned into worldwide outrage over 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.919 officers taking a much more horrifying knee on the neck 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.359 of another man. I won't justice for my brother, my 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:17.000 big brother. That's Big Floord. Everybody know who Big Floyd is. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.520 Now everybody gonna remember him around the world. He's going 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:41.320 to change the world. In death, George Floyd has become 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.200 the symbol for action everywhere. His final words I can't 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.720 breathe have been displayed on signs and chanted by crowds 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.600 in solidarity protests across the globe. A world already turned 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.160 upside down by the novel Coronavirus, became further disrupted by 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.760 the tragedy in May, affecting politics, business, culture, and of 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:05.280 course sports. The George Floyd videos one of the most 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.400 disturbing things that I've ever seen personally. That's cornerback Bryce 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:16.479 Hall now with the New York Jets. The reality is 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.440 just that, you know, I haven't experienced something to that 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.800 kind of depth, and to see that for myself and 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.680 internalized that was shocking, And it's a different thing when 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.279 you hear about things um, when you are taught things 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.040 from other people or in school, when you learn things 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.560 UM versus actually being present during in a situation and 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.160 environment where you see the whole thing infold and manifest 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.760 with your own eyes. You know, it's just it's just 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.800 kind of awakening and come to realization that this stuff 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.880 is real. My dad he grew up in Louisiana and 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:02.320 he's kind of been exposed to some things along those lines. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.080 And some of the things that my dad talks about, 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.200 you know, he's not just saying it just to say it. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.640 You know, it's it's very real. Bryce's father wanted to 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.560 shield his children from the racism he experienced in this country, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.599 repeating occurrence. He was certain his kids would also be 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.520 subjected to. I have so I have two older brothers, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.799 my blood brothers, um there, and their names are Derek 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.760 and Philip, and obviously my name is Bryce. But he 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.640 had named us these names because he never wanted us 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.640 to have a disadvantage if somebody were to look at 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.279 our names and they couldn't tell if you know who 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.360 we are, but they just looked on paper and they 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.200 wouldn't be able to racially profile you know, they sound 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.760 just like any other name, so they couldn't discriminate on 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.320 the name. And I thought that was something that I 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.240 just kind of blew my mind. Was very interesting because 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.400 I never knew that, and that's something that he shared 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:00.039 with me recently. I grew up in the South and 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:07.400 we's in Dad Michael Hall, So my exposure to racism 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:12.279 or a feeling of blacks being inferior or treated differently 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.640 or whatever, I mean, that was a reality there. If 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.320 you're a black person, you defer to white people. In 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.440 particularly older black people were trained that way. One world, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.760 all I had was a band director, Mr. Wilhide in 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.560 sixth grade. Um, he was a black man. If he 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.560 would come from the different he would go to a 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.040 couple of different schools and teach a band. He came 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.680 to school late and we were messing around and stuff, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.720 you know, as kids cutting up. He basically thanked all 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.680 of us and he told us, I want you all 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.960 to learn this lesson and never forget it. If you 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.919 want to be treated, if you want to get equal 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.400 treatment this world, if you apply for a job or anything, 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.760 and you have to be twice as good just to 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.480 get equal. Right, cognition and you never forget that. So 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.560 that's why you can't afford to be wasting time not practicing, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.760 not working, not doing your homework. And that lesson stuck 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.080 with me. So I always realized, as a black person, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.080 I've got to try twice as hard just to get 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:22.960 a fair break. And that's the injustice, that's the unfairness, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.600 that's what we've had to deal with. And Bryce and 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.160 he always felt like, well, things are different. I'm not 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.600 getting treated differently. That was your world. That's not my world. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.680 But when you see what happened to George Floyd Nor, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.480 my world is still exists. That world has never gone away. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.880 So I think that was like a bucket of cold 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.480 water in his face to realize that, you know, things 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:59.880 have changed, but they haven't changed that much at all. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.680 Has been taught to stand up for yourself and stand 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.640 up for what you believe in. That's Denver Broncos cornerback 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:13.880 is saying, Bassie, if I see somebody treating my teammate, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.960 my classmate a different way, you know that's gonna affect 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.880 me because they could easily turn that that hate towards 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.920 me or something. You know. So when I was younger, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.800 my parents would always be like, you know, not everybody's 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.440 your friend. Be careful what you say around these people 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.920 who are act the third way around these people because 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.720 they don't. You don't want them to think something else 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.839 than what it is. Similar to how Bryce didn't feel 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.720 or experience the overt racism his dad warned him about 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.520 on a day to day basis, is saying also didn't 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.040 think the warnings applied to his daily existence, at least 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.640 not until one night this past summer, while he was 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.839 home waiting to join his new team for training camp. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.679 I was in Atlanta, uh Lily around the corner down 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.960 the street from where Brookes was shot and killed at 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.560 that Wendy's Um. Less than the while away I was. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.080 I was right there, and I remember having that conversation 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.440 with my parents, the fear and their voices, and like 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.680 I said, those things, when you see those things happen, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.240 that's when you start to realize, Oh, this is what 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.560 she was trying to tell me. This is what my 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.920 dad was telling me about when I was growing up. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.199 This is what he means. This is what he meant 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:27.440 by you don't talk back to a police officer. Don't 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.520 do this, don't you know carry yourself a certain way, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.120 So do everything in your power that no harm comes 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.760 to you. And that's just how it is growing up 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.760 as an African American. These are things that black people 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:46.280 have been enduring for four years, these social injustices. It's 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.720 just it's like a it's like that bad dream that 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.880 you keep having. It's just you keep having that same nightmare. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.480 Tragon Martin was the first time that I really felt that, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.680 And then you have all these Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.040 Eric Gardner, Like I said, that bad dream keeps happening 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.120 and happening and happening. George Floyd, you know, keeps happening. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.880 Brianna Taylor, it keeps happening. That was an accident. It 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.120 should have never happened. They were at the wrong house. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.080 She was not supposed to be killed. This is Garmet, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:23.600 Mama Lou, another member of Clutched Sports Group. So why 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.760 didn't Why has no one done anything about that? That's 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.920 that's what makes you feel like the experience of a 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:36.440 black woman and a black man are different. The cops 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.520 in that situation, in Brianna Taylor's situation have yet to 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.360 be arrested. Garmet is part of the team representing many 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.360 of the top rookies joining the NFL, and she offers 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.840 a rarely heard perspective in this predominantly male sports world. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.760 When you talk about in dissect the safety of what 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.320 it means to be a black woman in this place, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.720 when you don't feel protected one because of your sex, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.440 because the people that should be protecting you, you gotta 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:07.000 worry about them harming you. You see cops body slamming women, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:13.080 You hear about cops raping women that are taken into custody. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.040 You don't feel valued when you are constantly shown video 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:23.760 of your life meaning nothing. You feel insignificant. You feel helpless. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.839 When you are a woman and you're sleeping in your 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:33.120 bed and you die, and your cops are your killers, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:37.960 your murderers are still walking enjoying their life, you feel 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.120 like nobody cares. So in the same way we are 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:50.040 enraged and making sure what happened or whatever will happen 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.400 with George Floyd's murderers, whatever happened to the men that 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.280 murdered mad Aubrey, I just want us to have that 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.960 same concern and compassion for Brianna Taylor and every other 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.800 woman who has lost her life at the hands of 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:08.040 the same social injustices and the same needs on next. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:15.800 A lot of times, sorry, a lot of times black 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:25.000 women are encouraged and forced to be strong, and it 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:30.160 doesn't always seem like people see that we need to 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.480 be soft too, and we need to be protected, and 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.680 we need to be cared for, and we need justice. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:43.439 We go and march for our brothers. We go and 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:50.719 make sure that their lives are never forgotten. That who 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.720 killed them, whoever her harm them, we go and make 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.280 sure that they go to court, go to jail. Whatever 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.840 needs to happen, we make that happen. As a woman, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.120 as a black woman, I would love to see us 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.120 make that happen for us. I'm sorry, I was not 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:24.920 expecting to cry. We'll be right back. When you talk 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:29.600 about the word hate, it doesn't have a color. Hate 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.719 is a mindset Rich Paul had of clut sports. It's 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.880 something that's taught to you based upon an environment that 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.199 you grew up in a situation that you're going through. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.960 And then there's the other layer added to where colors 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.960 added because as an individual, you have to have someone 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.640 to take that hate out on. So here we are. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.480 This is the first time I feel like people are 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:06.560 listening and the right steps are being taken. Is well 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:11.120 things happen overnight. No, can you expect people to feel 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.079 sorry for you? No, but we can take two steps 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.640 for me. It starts with better educating yourself all the 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.080 way around the board. The only way this system could 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.000 change is its leaders has to be willing to listen 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:35.600 and want to change. I think seeing lives being taken away, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.400 they've been taking us almost like it's become so second 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.560 nature to see these type things. To marry his billbo again. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.680 It puts the fear of God and me when I 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.880 get pulled over, when I even see a police officer 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.920 come behind me, And you don't want to live like that. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:54.120 And I found this topic just occupying. It affects the 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.240 way I raised my son. It affects, you know, the 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.400 way I moved, Like the way I jump. I mean 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.760 literally when I jump in my car. Now I'm looking 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.440 around in the car, I'm making I'm checking my lights, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.680 making sure lights because I don't want to get pulled over. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.760 You know what I'm saying. I'm just it's just it's 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.600 just it completely changes everything and how you move. And 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.160 you know what I'm saying, I love being a black man, 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.960 you know, and you know, but it's some days that 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.400 I wake up and I'm just like, when is this 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.200 gonna hit home? You know what I'm saying, When is 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.280 it gonna you know? Because like I, like I said, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.600 I've been pulled over by cops and I've seen and 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.200 I'm a big dude, I've seen the fear and I 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.200 kind of get emotionally even talking about it because it sucks. Man. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.560 It's just it's something that you know, like you have kids, 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.160 you don't even want to raise kids, Like I we 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.520 talked about having another kid at one point. It's like 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.640 you don't even want to bring another kid in the world. Man. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:48.760 For to Marrus, it's not just the fear of what 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.320 might happen. It's about what has already happened and what 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.960 continues to happen the community I live in. I'm the 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.200 only African American family in my community. It was hard 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.440 for me to move into this neighbor hood. Million dollar 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.160 homes in this neighborhood and see everybody. I moved my 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.200 family here for a reason, and then all the windows 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.040 in the front of my home were busted. To have 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:17.800 my home vandalized to that extent, and uh, to see 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.280 the camera pick up the white kids faces, multiple white 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:26.360 kids faces, and no arrest being made, and it's just 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.760 kind of like goes away. But it's hard for me 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.800 to walk this neighborhood and blame everybody for that right, 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.080 for that one person's actions, because I have, for for 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.760 a moment, I was better, I was mad. I was like, man, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.119 I moved my family here because it's a beautiful neighborhood, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.480 grade school systems, and we have a lovely home just 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.040 like everybody else on the block, you know, But why 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.040 my home? And then you start to kind of look 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.520 at yourself and they don't know me, they don't know 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.160 you know, my heart, they don't know my family, And 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.920 this is how we welcome to this neighborhood, if that's 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.880 what it was. But it was hard for me to 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.840 leave that someone didn't intentionally do this to my home 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.600 because I had just been here for a couple of 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:10.400 months and um. But again, I don't judge a whole 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.719 race of people for one person's actions, because I know 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.600 how that feels to be pre judged before you even 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.280 get in the room with people. Uh, And that's what 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.560 coming from mass point allowed me to do it allowed 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.399 me to see very diverse people. Damarius grew up in 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.800 Moss Point, Mississippi, a place where he earned high school 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.520 All American accolades and football and baseball, but that athletic 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.560 success didn't change how people in the area saw him. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.239 I grew up in Masspow, Mississippi, really small town on 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.560 the Gulf coast of Mississippi. I mean it's a hop 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.760 from Mobile, Alabama, and I had my fair share of 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:49.200 running with people with Confederate flags on their trucks and 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.639 throwing bottles out of a window at me when I 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.399 was running just trying to get the work out in, 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.680 or you know, being in the middle of a baseball 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.520 game and second baseman calling me the inn word, and 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.439 you know things like that. So I seen my share 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.000 of racism, but that doesn't breed hate in my heart. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.440 After the George Floyd thing, obviously there were a lot 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:13.080 of situation from Trey von Martin, Philando Cashier to all 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.320 these people who have before George Floyd. But to finally 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.720 see it and have that that moment where that could 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.600 have been a friend of brother, a cousin and made 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.600 it more realistic. What it made it real because that 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.200 man life was taken right in front of all our eyes. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.040 So you know, I've had players again going back to 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.760 that that that John Lewis quote. You know, that's not fair, 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.240 that's not right, that's unjust. You know, we have to 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.280 do something about it because it's a more obligation. Just 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.159 five weeks after George Floyd's death, we lost Congressman John Lewis, 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.560 the trail blazing civil rights legend from Georgia, a leader 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.479 in this movement and many of the others that came before. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.880 The late Congressman, often referred to as the conscience of Congress, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:19:02.080 regularly spoke on this inherent obligation stand out, speak up 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.919 when you see something that is not right, not fair, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.720 not just. If you have a moral obligation to do something, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:15.679 to say something and not be quiet. As Dr Martino 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:20.000 the King Jr. Said, hate is too heavy a burden 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.200 to bed. Yeah, we have come a distance. We made 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.960 a lot of programs as a nation and as a people, 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.280 but we're not there yet. Congressman Lewis participated in this 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.600 fight since the nineteen sixties, when Americans last experienced protests 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.480 of this magnitude. Let at the time by Dr Martin 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.040 Luther King Jr. You know, as I looked too, people 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.560 who have been through so much adversity but have made 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:49.240 a huge difference. That's Bryce Hall again, Martin Luther King. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.560 One of the things he's famous for saying is, you know, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.040 darkness can't drive out darkness, only light can do that. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.720 In the same with hate. You can't drive out hate 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.960 with hate. It takes love, and so I truly believe 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.159 that's the answer. You know, what I'm trying to model 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:08.600 is having to move with love first. And you know 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.960 that's not the easiest thing, but you know it's it's 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.480 a commandment because you know, that's what one thing we 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.080 are called to do. And if we could ever get 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.320 that right, I think we will see a huge impact 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:31.240 and a huge difference on everything that we're seeing. We'll 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:48.679 be right back. As bad as it sounds, you know, 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.560 I'm glad that conversation is being had. I'm glad people 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:57.600 are starting to realize that change needs to happen once again. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:02.520 It's saying Bassie football was taken away. People are starting 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.800 now to focus on things outside of just what they 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.159 can go through in their daily lives, their daily routine, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.160 and are trying to realize that other people around them, 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.720 even the people closest to them, could be going through 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:18.879 things and and are affected by these these events, and 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.760 people are starting to be more considerate towards that, and 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.280 conversations are being to have that that haven't happened before, 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.520 and people are trying to implement change into how we operate. 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.919 So just like I said, I've been growing up with it. 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.439 I've been living it like my whole life. I'm glad 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:38.879 people's eyes are starting to open up. And now other people, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.760 it's like other people are starting now to you know, 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:48.240 see into what's been going on. It's not always easy. 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:50.639 You know, I'm not gonna sit here and say that 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.400 I've always done that and I've always even though that's 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.960 what's been in my heart. But that's something I'm learning, 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.280 like as a leader, and some something that um needs 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.960 to be done is understanding that, you know, one of 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.160 the I think one of the things I'm really learning, 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.679 especially during the times, is no matter what you do, 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.560 I mean, like, you can be the most kind person, 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.400 you can smile, you can just care for people, but 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.280 work through all less of that, there's gonna be some 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:24.040 somebody who just this. You're not always going to be 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.320 able to please everybody is what I'm trying to get at. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.760 And so then it comes down to standing for your 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:32.960 core and what you believe and to your point of 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.040 saying when you see something, say in something. And that's very, 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:40.200 very true because like a lot of times we don't 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:44.440 because of the you know, it's easier to avoid timeflict 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.640 and it's easier to let something slide. But I mean, 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:51.200 part of being of leadership is stepping outside that comfort 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.520 zone and understanding that you got to stand for your 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:59.359 convictions and if you don't, you know, um my, my 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:03.400 wife loves to remind me that wife is Nzelville Yun 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.119 who said yes to Bryce's proposal last episode. They're now 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.199 happily married. My wife loves to remind me, if you 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:14.240 don't stand for anything, you'll fall for everything. And so 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:17.639 that's one of the areas that I'm growing in. But 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.600 that's absolutely something I believe in. My core is is 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.200 is that it is if you see something, you say something, 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:28.480 do something, say something, don't stay quiet in the face 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.760 of injustice. John Lewis's message is more important than ever. 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:36.600 Our four mothers and our forefathers wrote us to this 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:43.000 place maybe our four mothers and our forefathers all came 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:47.560 to this great land in different ships. But as the 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.920 late E. Philorandolv said on one occasion, we are all 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:55.000 in the same boat now, and we must look out 0:23:55.040 --> 0:24:06.840 for each other and care for each other. You're never 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:11.199 too young or too old to lead, to speak up, 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:19.639 to speak out and getting good trouble necessary trouble you 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:25.840 cannot afford to stand on the slideline. We're seeing history 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:30.400 unfold to marry his billbo again, and things are are changing. 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:33.639 But the thing about the civil rights movement wasn't a 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:35.520 weak thing. It wasn't a month thing, it wasn't a 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:37.879 year thing. It went on and on and on until 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:41.639 things changed. And I think that's what we have to understand, 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:45.600 that we have to keep the consistency going. You know. Yeah, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:48.879 it might start off with with riots and marches and 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:51.879 things like that. At first, that's the attention grabber, but 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:55.480 at some point, what do we drive all that momentum 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:58.680 towards getting things changed and find a solution. Here's Garmet 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:01.639 Mama Loo again on what she sees firsthand from NFL 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.480 players and what needs to happen next. Those black men, 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:06.359 those strong black men that I know that are in 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:10.640 the league, the ones that stand for something, that want 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.280 to use their platform to highlight those things. They haven't 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:15.479 let up. They're not They're always going to be vocal 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.720 about injustices. You have people like Eric Reid who has 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:22.240 not stopped. He was right there kneeling with Colin Kaepernick, 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:25.160 and he has not stopped using his voice, using his platforms, 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:29.800 using his social media, whatever is necessary to keep the 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:34.520 Black Lives Matter message going. The importance of understanding and 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.600 highlighting social injustices until they are no longer injustices. There 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:43.960 are a lot of situations that I unfortunately we can 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.880 go back in history and like it's like it's repeating itself. 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:50.919 But one of my favorite quotes is lessons are repeated 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:54.120 until lessons are learned. We haven't learned our lesson yet. 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:59.760 I think that we should still be like, out there, 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:02.800 you do whatever that means for you, whatever protesting means 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:06.280