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I’m old enough to remember football legend Jim Brown playing
for the Cleveland Browns back in the 1960’s. He is still "the greatest football player of all time." And he is speaking up about President Trump, taking a knee, and the
black community. Brian Kilmeade interviewed him on Fox and Friends. I missed it, but Steven Beyer at Western Journal reported on the
interview:
NFL legend and social activist Jim
Brown appeared on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning and delivered a charge to
the “black community” by asking it to take responsibility over shifting the
blame onto President Donald Trump.
The former star running back
started the interview by heaping praise on Trump for
being “accessible.”
He told Fox’s Brian Kilmeade, “I
have access to the president, and anytime I have access to the president, and
he will listen to my thoughts, that’s all I can ask of him.”
“This president is accessible,”
Brown said. “He’s different. He’s challenging, and he pays attention to what I
say.”
Brown then turned his attention to
the black community, telling Kilmeade, “We should look at ourselves first
before we look at the president.”
Kilmede asked him if he felt Trump
was doing a good job of “producing” for the black community.
“Well, I tell you it’s very hard to
produce for the black community in a certain way,” Brown replied. “The black
community, and I’m a part of the black community, has a responsibility
regardless of what the president does. If you have a homicide rate in your
black community, then it’s not the president that’s created that homicide rate.
It’s the black community itself that needs to address it.”
“So I don’t want to put everything
on him, and I’m sorry to say the black community is not doing what we should
do, and that includes myself,” Brown added.
Kilmede asked Brown if he believed
the president to be a racist.
“I’m so glad you asked me that,”
Brown replied. “Of course not. Is America racist? Of course not.”
Brown went on talk about the national
anthem protests saying, “We should never denigrate our flag and
our national anthem. We should always be Americans first and we should work our
butts off to do the right thing and make it a better country.”
“But to not respect your flag and
national anthem is something I’d never do,” he added.
The video interview is
embedded at the link here.
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