Speaker 1: All right, welcome everybody to the bonus episode of Politics,
Speaker 1: which I'll drop periodically throughout this inaugural season. Now, these
Speaker 1: episodes won't be like your typical Spolitics episodes. Sometimes it'll
Speaker 1: be just me as it is today, and sometimes I
Speaker 1: may have a guess it's just me sort of reacting
Speaker 1: to things as they say in real time. First, I
Speaker 1: want to start on the thoughts or my thoughts rather
Speaker 1: on this election. I've been really careful about sharing my
Speaker 1: thoughts on this election. I mostly haven't shared it in
Speaker 1: a public space, just because, you know, I really needed
Speaker 1: to process and sort of really think about what I
Speaker 1: wanted to say, and not that what I have to
Speaker 1: say is so revolutionary compared to what other people have
Speaker 1: been saying. But I think it's pretty clear and it's
Speaker 1: pretty evident what happened.
Speaker 2: And as for me, this was.
Speaker 1: Not something that was surprising in the lightest that Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris would lose to Donald Trump, because I like this
Speaker 1: was a direction that we were sort of headed in,
Speaker 1: you know, and this hasn't just been in the making
Speaker 1: when Kamala Harris became the head of the Democratic presidential
Speaker 1: nominee in terms of the ticket, this was something I
Speaker 1: think that has been going for much longer than that
Speaker 1: heading towards this particular moment, and mostly because I know
Speaker 1: this as a journalist and seeing all the information that's
Speaker 1: out there on social media, is that journalists, or very
Speaker 1: specifically I should say the Democratic Party, but it's also
Speaker 1: tied to journalism overall. They've lost the information war, and
Speaker 1: this is a defeat that was quite clear in to how,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the various campaign ads, which I'll
Speaker 1: get into in a moment, but also the way that
Speaker 1: people were processing the information. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: looked at any social media site, it was just flooded
Speaker 1: with misinformation. And I think we're at a point now
Speaker 1: in society where in our classroom, on campuses, and just
Speaker 1: in our daily lives that a lot of people need
Speaker 1: to be able to decipher between misinformation, disinformation and truth.
Speaker 1: And a lot of the feelings that are evoked in
Speaker 1: this election, often a lot of it was led by misinformation.
Speaker 1: So I was not surprised, and I'm not saying that's
Speaker 1: the only reason that people didn't elect Kamala Harris. I
Speaker 1: think there were other factors that were at play, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised. And here's proof that I wasn't surprised,
Speaker 1: because about a month ago, I was asked at an
Speaker 1: event that was put on by the Atlantic, where I
Speaker 1: also know, right I'm a contributing writer for The Atlantic,
Speaker 1: as many of you know, where I cover the intersection
Speaker 1: between race, sports, politics, gender and culture. I was doing
Speaker 1: an event on Michigan State's campus and I was asked
Speaker 1: who I thought would win this election.
Speaker 2: And here's what I said, quickly before we go.
Speaker 3: If the election were held today, who's going to win?
Speaker 3: Donald Trump? If the election were held today, who's going
Speaker 3: to win? Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2: I think Trump will win.
Speaker 3: But there's three weeks left. There's a lot of game left,
Speaker 3: as they.
Speaker 1: Say, so clearly I did see this coming, but I
Speaker 1: still don't think that makes it any more difficult to accept.
Speaker 1: As many of you all know, I've had my own
Speaker 1: personal history with Donald Trump. Back in back in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: I tweeted that the president is a white supremacist. These
Speaker 1: are words I still stand on, words I think that
Speaker 1: have been proven ever since then and were proven before
Speaker 1: I said it. And that tweet, of course, changed my
Speaker 1: career in many ways. It changed how people perceive me.
Speaker 1: It changed a lot of things. And the president in response,
Speaker 1: he said I should be fired. He blamed me for
Speaker 1: ESPN's ratings being not healthy, apparently, and the then Press
Speaker 1: Secretary Sarah Helckabe Sanders, who is now the govern of Arkansas,
Speaker 1: also said that I should be fired. So yes, I
Speaker 1: take the reelection of Donald Trump quite personally because of
Speaker 1: the person themselves.
Speaker 2: But also as a black woman. And that is.
Speaker 1: Because I think for a lot of black women we
Speaker 1: can relate to Kamala Harris just in the sense of
Speaker 1: some of us have been in that position before where
Speaker 1: we felt qualified, if not overqualified in many respects, and
Speaker 1: for a lot of Black women, even though we should
Speaker 1: not internalize it this way, it felt like a particular
Speaker 1: rejection of some of the things that we've been fighting for,
Speaker 1: or it felt like a particular rejection of sort of
Speaker 1: our place and how we're seen in this society. And
Speaker 1: I don't think it's by any accident that both of
Speaker 1: Trump's presidential victories have been against women Hillary Rodham Clinton
Speaker 1: of course in twenty sixteen, and now in Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: because some of those same tropes have come up in
Speaker 1: both elections and so it does make you wonder at
Speaker 1: what point I hate to use the word ready, but
Speaker 1: at what point will America be ready for a woman
Speaker 1: to be in that role. I think it's a question
Speaker 1: we have to ask ourselves, is like, what is it
Speaker 1: going to take? Because I see all this, you know,
Speaker 1: all these post election autopsies trying to box around what
Speaker 1: I think was pretty obvious about how racism and misogyny
Speaker 1: we're driving a lot of the coverage, the opinions, and
Speaker 1: even how the electorates saw Kamala Harris, and so if
Speaker 1: y'all want to fight about it, let's fight about it.
Speaker 2: But I think it was particularly evident.
Speaker 1: But now it's time to turn the page, and I
Speaker 1: think it's important as we think about what another Trump
Speaker 1: presidency could mean. I think it's important that we think
Speaker 1: about what this might mean in terms of the world
Speaker 1: of sports, because I think how a Trump presidency will
Speaker 1: impact the world of sports this time around will be
Speaker 1: a lot different than it was the first time around.
Speaker 2: Now, if you all remember from.
Speaker 1: That time when Trump was first in office, he was
Speaker 1: able to use certain sports issues as a political football
Speaker 1: that helped more endear himself to his base that maybe
Speaker 1: in some respects, you could say, grew his base, and
Speaker 1: one of those ways was his attacks on NFL players
Speaker 1: and Colin Kaepernick in particular, who in twenty sixteen, before
Speaker 1: he became president, Colin of course, decided to take a
Speaker 1: knee to protest against social injustice. This became arguably the
Speaker 1: biggest story in sports, certainly a very important story, and
Speaker 1: so that gave us a window as to what to
Speaker 1: expect from a Trump presidency.
Speaker 2: Now, even though we don't have.
Speaker 1: A Colin Kaepernick in this moment, I think one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things we have to look at is how
Speaker 1: Trump's plans for the US Department of Education, how that
Speaker 1: may factor into how athletes are treated this go around.
Speaker 1: So I want you to pay attention to something he
Speaker 1: said about the Department of Education. Here's that sound right now.
Speaker 2: We're going to end education coming out of Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: We're going to close it up, all those buildings all
Speaker 1: over the place, and you have people that in many
Speaker 1: cases hate our children.
Speaker 3: We're going to send it all back to the States. Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of people are applauding this, which
Speaker 1: is kind of crazy to me, but I get it
Speaker 1: because a lot of us don't really fully understand the
Speaker 1: difference between how the Department of Education operates and how the.
Speaker 2: State Board of Education operates.
Speaker 1: I think there is certainly a degree of satisfaction that
Speaker 1: people feel by the idea of disbanding a government department
Speaker 1: over an issue that a lot of people in this
Speaker 1: country aren't happy with, and that is education, even though
Speaker 1: by certain metrics it shows America is still one of
Speaker 1: the top places to be educated. Now, this isn't me
Speaker 1: trying to cape for our educational system, because when you
Speaker 1: do a dive to where American students rank in math
Speaker 1: and science, that tells a much different story. The United
Speaker 1: States ranks thirty fourth in math, sixteenth in science.
Speaker 2: And as someone who went to.
Speaker 1: Public school in Detroit, I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: inner city schools face a lot.
Speaker 2: Of educational challenges.
Speaker 1: But let's take a look at the Department of Education
Speaker 1: and how that correlates to sports. One of the most
Speaker 1: important elements of the Department of Education is enforcing Title nine. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't need to tell you the importance of Title nine,
Speaker 1: but in case you need to remember, it's the single
Speaker 1: most important piece of legislation in the history of women's sports.
Speaker 1: Title nine was enacted by Congress in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1: Title nine prohibits sex discrimination in education. When Title nine
Speaker 1: was formed, it wasn't intended to be the bridge that
Speaker 1: necessarily opened the access point for women in collegiate sports,
Speaker 1: but that's essentially what happened. The Department of Education enforces
Speaker 1: and investigates Title nine violations. These violations range from investigating
Speaker 1: inequities between men's and women'sport worts inside of the athletic departments,
Speaker 1: and this part is really important to also including investigating
Speaker 1: sexual assaults that happen on campus. Now, we have some
Speaker 1: indication of how Trump's administration will handle Title nine enforcement
Speaker 1: based off what his administration did the first time around,
Speaker 1: and based off the plans laid out in Project twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, you know, the playbook for his second term
Speaker 1: that Trump claims to not know anything about. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about when I refer to Project twenty twenty five. Now,
Speaker 1: in his first term, Trump appointed Betsy Devas as the
Speaker 1: Education Secretary, and when the first thing she did was
Speaker 1: take some teeth out of Title nine protections. Now, among
Speaker 1: the many new policies that Betsy DeVos instituted to Title
Speaker 1: nine the most egregious was accused rapists were allowed to
Speaker 1: cross examine their alleged victims in a live trial. Please
Speaker 1: don't tell me, I have to explain to you why
Speaker 1: that is really fucked up. Based on what's proposed for
Speaker 1: Title nine to Project twenty twenty five, the goal is
Speaker 1: to make the process of filing a complaint for any
Speaker 1: discrimination that fall under Title nine painful and lengthy, and
Speaker 1: it would basically require those who come forward with Title
Speaker 1: nine complaints to have a legal team. It does everything
Speaker 1: possible to discourage people from coming forward for highlighting abuses
Speaker 1: that are happening in the system, and that doesn't just
Speaker 1: apply to sexual assault, but virtually any violation of Title nine.
Speaker 1: Now as it is, there are some eighty percent of
Speaker 1: athletic departments that are not fully compliant with Title nine.
Speaker 1: Although to various degrees, if Title nine is put under
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice or it's under the supervision of
Speaker 1: the state, Title nine it may as well not exist.
Speaker 1: The Department of Justice isn't going to have much incentive
Speaker 1: to investigate anything, and the states may not have the
Speaker 1: resources to take it on either. Now there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying that again this is a good idea
Speaker 1: to get rid of the Department of Education. But I'll
Speaker 1: go back to something I said previously. I need you
Speaker 1: all to understand how the Department of Education actually works.
Speaker 1: So in nineteen seventy nine, former President Jimmy Carter he
Speaker 1: split off the Education from the Department of Health, Education,
Speaker 1: and Welfare. Now, what the Department of Education does is
Speaker 1: supplement state resources to fund a variety of programs.
Speaker 2: So here's one thing I want y'all to understand. Said
Speaker 2: this earlier.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to get a little more specific. There
Speaker 1: is a difference between the State Board of Education and
Speaker 1: the Department of Education. The state Board of Education, and
Speaker 1: this does vary by state, generally controls the curriculum, instructural materials,
Speaker 1: and handles accountability. They decide the textbooks and the regulations.
Speaker 1: So a lot of y'all that have a problem with
Speaker 1: the education in your community that is a state and
Speaker 1: local issue, not a federal issue. The Department of Education
Speaker 1: is the enforcer of federal laws. They also oversee the
Speaker 1: financial aid programs and conduct educational research. So it's the
Speaker 1: Department of Education that oversees peil grants. And if that
Speaker 1: is abolished, that would disproportionately impact low income students. Now,
Speaker 1: I was a Peil grant recipient and without it, my
Speaker 1: student loan debt would have probably been astronomical. So this
Speaker 1: is a very key piece of what the Department of
Speaker 1: Education does. The Department of Education also oversees the funding
Speaker 1: for students with disabilities, including special ed and for programs
Speaker 1: such as head Start, which is used by nearly eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand children from birth to age five. I was
Speaker 1: a Headstar kid two. So hopefully we understand the difference
Speaker 1: between these two.
Speaker 2: Departments and how they operate.
Speaker 1: But beyond Trump's promise to destroy the Department of Education,
Speaker 1: here's another way in which his presidency could potentially impact sports.
Speaker 1: You know who is really happy with not just a
Speaker 1: Trump presidency, but also the re election of Texas Senator
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, And that would be the NCAA.
Speaker 2: Let me hit you to some gang.
Speaker 1: Ted Cruse is going to be the new chair of
Speaker 1: the Senior Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over college sports issues,
Speaker 1: and he has a very strong, very NCAA position.
Speaker 4: Current state of affairs is the wild West. When you
Speaker 4: combine unlimited nil rights with an unlimited transfer portal, we
Speaker 4: are entering an arena where every player goes to the
Speaker 4: highest bidder, and the loyalties of players to teams and
Speaker 4: the ethos of college sports is a real jeopardy. We're
Speaker 4: also at risk of seeing a handful of giant mega
Speaker 4: schools with all the money creating super teams and the
Speaker 4: rest of schools unable to compete, which I think would
Speaker 4: be terrible. To have college athletics succeed, you have to
Speaker 4: have some modicum of parody.
Speaker 1: All right, because before NIL existed, things were so equitable, right,
Speaker 1: The top programs weren't the same programs that were usually
Speaker 1: at the top every year. But you know what has
Speaker 1: happened as a result of this quote, Wild Wild West
Speaker 1: that Ted Cruz talks about is a school like India
Speaker 1: whose football program has largely on a historical level, been terrible.
Speaker 1: But they went out, They got a good coach and
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti. They made a huge financial commitment to him
Speaker 1: into bolstering the program. They got thirty one transfers, and
Speaker 1: now they are on the cusp of making the College
Speaker 1: Football Playoff. Did NIL stop Vanderbilt from upsetting Alabama this season?
Speaker 2: It did not.
Speaker 1: So the NCUBA loves to see TAA Cruz coming to
Speaker 1: be chair of this committee because another thing that Senator
Speaker 1: Cruz is solidly against is college athletes being classified as employees.
Speaker 1: The reason the NC DOUBLEA is against that is because
Speaker 1: it opens them up to future lawsuits, and if athletes
Speaker 1: are employees, they couldn't do anything to restrict player movement.
Speaker 1: So maybe instead of some of you college football players
Speaker 1: who were doing the Trump dance when you were celebrating
Speaker 1: an end zone, maybe some of y'all should have been
Speaker 1: studying up on how this election might potentially impact your pocket,
Speaker 1: especially if you are a college athlete in the state
Speaker 1: of Texas. Because the cat it that Ted Cruz ran against
Speaker 1: is a former Baylor linebacker who played for the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans colin already now he has a much different opinion
Speaker 1: than Ted Cruz because he actually played college football and
Speaker 1: professional football.
Speaker 5: Here it is, Yeah, I wouldn't be where I am
Speaker 5: today without the opportunity that college sports gave me. The
Speaker 5: scholarship that I got at Baylor set me on the
Speaker 5: path to go into law school, to playing in the NFL,
Speaker 5: of course, but then also having a chance to serving Congress,
Speaker 5: and so to me, uh, it's incredibly This is an
Speaker 5: incredibly important institution on top of being an incredibly profitable one.
Speaker 5: And as we've seen this become such a big business now,
Speaker 5: it always had to come to this that at some point,
Speaker 5: the players who were generating so much revenue for everyone else,
Speaker 5: we're going to have to benefit from from that themselves.
Speaker 5: As I said in that statement, you know, I really
Speaker 5: struggled when I was at Baylor financially and I was
Speaker 5: on scholarship, you know, but after I paid my rent
Speaker 5: and my bills, there wasn't much leftover. But at the
Speaker 5: same time, I was playing a video game, the NCAA
Speaker 5: football game at that time with my player, you know,
Speaker 5: number thirty four, middle linebacker for Baylor six two to
Speaker 5: two thirty five from Dallas. I wasn't seeing any of
Speaker 5: that revenue, right, And I think that wasn't right either.
Speaker 1: Now, beyond those things I pointed out, of course, another
Speaker 1: really big issue that Trump took on related to sports
Speaker 1: was transgender athletes. Not No poll after poll has shown
Speaker 1: that a lot of Americans disagree with trans women playing
Speaker 1: in sports, or trans women playing girls or women's sports.
Speaker 1: And here's the ad that Trump ran to further bolster
Speaker 1: this home.
Speaker 2: Kamala support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisonente surgery for prisoners,
Speaker 2: for prisoners, every transgender inmate in the prison system would
Speaker 2: have access. Now, no, I don't want my taxpayer dollars
Speaker 2: going to that. Kamala support transgender sex changes in jail
Speaker 2: with our money.
Speaker 1: Kamala even supports letting buy a lot men compete against
Speaker 1: our girls in their sports.
Speaker 2: Kamala is for day dem President Trump is for you.
Speaker 3: I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.
Speaker 2: But let me ask you something.
Speaker 1: Does the level of response to trans athletes meet the problem?
Speaker 1: Because for all of you that said inflation in the economy,
Speaker 1: where your primary concerns and the reason you voted for Trump,
Speaker 1: where do you rank trans girls and women playing women's
Speaker 1: sports on the list of things that are priorities for.
Speaker 2: You that actually impact your life?
Speaker 1: I asked that because of this, the trans population makes
Speaker 1: up less than one percent of the total population in
Speaker 1: the United States, but since twenty twenty twenty three states
Speaker 1: have passed laws restricting trans athletes to participate in sports
Speaker 1: according to their assigned gender identity. There are five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand NCAA college athletes, only forty identify as trans and
Speaker 1: that is trans women and men.
Speaker 2: Only one trans athlete in history has won.
Speaker 1: An Olympic medal, Quinn, who won as a member of
Speaker 1: the Canadian women's soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics. So
Speaker 1: even the shortest glimpse of history shows you that this
Speaker 1: has not been a prevalent issue throughout. And I need
Speaker 1: to mention this about that ad that ran so successfully
Speaker 1: when both candidates were on the campaign trail. The reason
Speaker 1: why Kamala Harris said that she supported inmates receiving gender
Speaker 1: affirming care is because it's actually the law.
Speaker 2: That same law Trump also had to adhere to when
Speaker 2: he was president.
Speaker 1: Now, this law is based off a nineteen seventy six
Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruling which said that states are responsible for
Speaker 1: providing healthcare to inmates. Now, transgender inmates were able to
Speaker 1: expand that rule to include gender affirming care because they
Speaker 1: sued or the right to do it.
Speaker 2: So that is the law.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter now that he's president. That's not
Speaker 1: going away because it's based off a Supreme Court ruling. Now,
Speaker 1: of course it could if it's challenged again in court,
Speaker 1: but so far that has not been the case. So
Speaker 1: for all those who were upset about the idea of
Speaker 1: your tax dollars paying for this. It's a law, that's
Speaker 1: why it's being followed. But I'll say this, one of
Speaker 1: the things I find so kind of disingenuous about the
Speaker 1: positioning of trans athletes as being the boogeyman and boogie
Speaker 1: women is that for years, by any historical measure, what
Speaker 1: has undermined women's sports the most has been lack of investment,
Speaker 1: lack of resources, lack of media coverage, and generally being
Speaker 1: considered an afterthought. Those are the things that have allowed
Speaker 1: women's sports to be vulnerable. So if you want to
Speaker 1: protect women's sports, then I would suggest you protect women's
Speaker 1: sports by watching women's sports, by investing financially in women's sports,
Speaker 1: and by making sure that the media covers women's sports
Speaker 1: with the same intensity that they covered some other things,
Speaker 1: particularly some men's sports. Those are the things that undercut
Speaker 1: women's sports. You know, I'll just say in generally that,
Speaker 1: you know, as we think about, you know, the impact
Speaker 1: that Trump could have on the sports world. The other
Speaker 1: thing I think is going to be pretty obvious this
Speaker 1: go around is that I think there's going to be
Speaker 1: a different normalization of Trump than what we saw before
Speaker 1: now already if you guys watched the UFC fight recently
Speaker 1: John Jones where he won, the one that was in
Speaker 1: New York City. As you see, Donald Trump was there
Speaker 1: with Elon Musk, the Speaker of the House, speaker Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: and John Jones did the Trump dance. You know in
Speaker 1: the NFL saw a lot of athletes during the Trump
Speaker 1: the Trump Dance. I didn't even know that was a thing,
Speaker 1: but all right, saw a lot of college athletes, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, doing the Trump Dance. And so whereas
Speaker 1: before I think there was this sort of toxicity that
Speaker 1: was around showing open support of Donald Trump, I don't
Speaker 1: think that will be there anymore. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that's good or bad, particularly when you look at
Speaker 1: policy wise, some of the things he could do that
Speaker 1: could greatly impact and potentially undermine sports in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, at least for certain communities within sports. And
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see what happens when he's in
Speaker 1: the White House and it's that time where a champion
Speaker 1: in any of the major sports, and maybe even the
Speaker 1: NCAA champions, when it's time for them to visit the
Speaker 1: White House remember from the first go around, a lot
Speaker 1: of athletes said no, most notably the NBA not Nara.
Speaker 1: NBA team was in the White House to commemorate their
Speaker 1: championship during the Trump years, and to my recollection, most
Speaker 1: of the women's teams that won a championship weren't even
Speaker 1: invited to the White House. I mean some of them went,
Speaker 1: and I think that had a lot to do with
Speaker 1: how how that particular coach felt about Donald Trump. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about you, Kim Moulky, because Baylor, the women's team,
Speaker 1: was I think, frankly maybe the only individual women's team
Speaker 1: that went to the White House during his first presidency.
Speaker 1: But because of how much more normalized Trump has become,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that same you know, resistance will be there.
Speaker 1: Another thing I think that has to be considered too,
Speaker 1: is we know that Donald Trump loves to retaliate against
Speaker 1: his enemies real or imagine. You know, as I said before,
Speaker 1: he had no problem singling out Colin Kaepernick, no problem
Speaker 1: threatening NFL owners. He told them in particular that basically,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to sign Colin Kaepernick and
Speaker 1: make an enemy out of him, because, as he put it,
Speaker 1: him coming out and criticizing Colin Kaepernick was a quote
Speaker 1: winning issue for him, and so I am curious as
Speaker 1: to see if criticisms of Trump are a little bit
Speaker 1: muted because they know his propensity for retaliation. And certainly
Speaker 1: there was a very loud crowd that has always been
Speaker 1: there that claims sports and politics don't mix. But I
Speaker 1: see already how those goalposts are moving as it relates
Speaker 1: to sports and politics mixing, because now that there are
Speaker 1: more athletes who are being more vocal about their supporter Trump,
Speaker 1: I notice they're not being asked the same questions that
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick has been asked about his protests, or they're
Speaker 1: not holding it to the same standard as when Lebron
Speaker 1: James said that he was endorsing Kamala Harris, and he
Speaker 1: sat at his locker and answered every question about why
Speaker 1: he was choosing to support her. I'm wondering if that
Speaker 1: same energy is going to be kept with the athletes
Speaker 1: who are now vocally speaking out in support of Trump,
Speaker 1: because frankly, I think that's fair. You know, I've certainly
Speaker 1: never been somebody who has ever wanted athletes to just
Speaker 1: shut up and be quiet, even if I don't agree
Speaker 1: with what they're saying. But once you throw it out
Speaker 1: there in the critical thought marketplace, people have a right
Speaker 1: to come at it, and certainly, as a journalist, we
Speaker 1: have a right to ask you, well, why do you
Speaker 1: support this? What do you have to say about supporting
Speaker 1: someone who has been credibly found guilty of sexual assault
Speaker 1: in a court of law. That is a fair question
Speaker 1: to ask an athlete who is vocally supporting Trump. And
Speaker 1: so I'm just curious as to how the media begins
Speaker 1: to cover this in this moment, because I have to say,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I have a lot of hopes
Speaker 1: because in many ways, the media is responsible for us
Speaker 1: being in this moment now, and they've been complicit and
Speaker 1: certainly a lot of the misinformation and disinformation. So I
Speaker 1: don't know that I should have any real expectation for
Speaker 1: the media to properly frame and contextualize this moment clearly,
Speaker 1: But I do know this that stick to sportshit is
Speaker 1: out the window. I'm Jamel Hill, and I approve of
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