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Joe Burrow won teammates over after vowing to fight racial injustice for rest of his life
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:13 am
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:13 am
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Before Joe Burrow led his team to a Super Bowl or even played an NFL regular-season snap, the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback "won the team over" during an emotional meeting about racial injustice back in the summer of 2020.
The Bengals were holding a meeting at team headquarters around August, in the wake of George Floyd's murder by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and the protests against racial injustice it had sparked across the nation. As defensive tackle D.J. Reader recalls, "a lot was going on at that time" around the country and players were discussing weighty issues in the meeting.
Burrow decided to address the team by telling a personal story about the racial injustice a Black teammate experienced during their high school basketball days growing up in Athens, Ohio. During one game, Burrow said, people in the stands yelled racial slurs at the friend. Burrow described feeling shaken and upset during the game, and what it felt like afterward as the two of them sat in the back of the team bus.
Burrow vowed to fight against such behavior for the rest of his life.
"He kind of broke down talking about it," Reader said. "He's a guy who stood there and he supported his friend as he should because you know it's not right. As a person it meant a lot to hear how he stood up for him. [Racism] is not something he's not just now learning."
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Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:17 am to Bench McElroy
Sounds like an article where the author is really reaching and trying to make something a much bigger deal than it really was.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:19 am to Bench McElroy
This article is questionable at best. It so conveniently fits into ESPN’s agenda perfectly.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:22 am to Bench McElroy
He took Drew’s advice and Said Their Name?
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:23 am to Bench McElroy
Go rams then I guess.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:36 am to Bench McElroy
Hopefully after he wins the Super Bowl, Joe Burrow will head to Cambridge, MA to fight against Harvard’s anti-Asian racial injustice.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 1:58 am to Snoop Dawg
Racist is dead now. Joe won.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 2:19 am to Bench McElroy
at this make believe, mythical, PURE NON-SENSE
just exactly how lucrative is the race hustle business? because it's almost ALL pure lies.
just exactly how lucrative is the race hustle business? because it's almost ALL pure lies.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 2:57 am to Bench McElroy
Joe gets it. what a winner.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 4:22 am to DownSouthCrawfish
beautiful story during black history month, eric musselman had nike shoes that had a black history month logo, thank god for that. thank god for that
Posted on 2/13/22 at 4:35 am to Bench McElroy
so is this insinuating that black teammates only “play hard” for white QBs if they “vow for racial justice”?
kinda racist
kinda racist
Posted on 2/13/22 at 7:45 am to Bench McElroy
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as the two of them sat in the back of the team bus.
Would have made him sound more heroic had the fabricated story sat them in the front of the bus.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 7:49 am to Bench McElroy
Well, guess we can’t support Burrow and the Bengals anymore then
Posted on 2/13/22 at 7:53 am to ZIGG
I mean, there truly is an extremely small subset of the country who actually will yell racist epithets during high school sporting events… saw some of it first hand.
If that’s what Joe’s talking about when he says he wants to fight racial injustice, I don’t know what kind of a-hole wouldn’t support that. That’s actual, real racism which certainly should be called out. No problem with Joe telling that type of story to express solidarity and build rapport with his team.
The problem is that “racial injustice” gets so political and convoluted that to many it also means things like refusing to hold a person of color responsible for abject moral failures. If that’s the kind of nonsense Joe was speaking towards, then yea, that would be rolling over to the ideological tsunami sweeping the left. But my guess is Joe was speaking more towards the former type of racism than the latter type of “racism”. Because if it was more of the latter, you know damn well that ESPN would go all in on amplifying it.
If that’s what Joe’s talking about when he says he wants to fight racial injustice, I don’t know what kind of a-hole wouldn’t support that. That’s actual, real racism which certainly should be called out. No problem with Joe telling that type of story to express solidarity and build rapport with his team.
The problem is that “racial injustice” gets so political and convoluted that to many it also means things like refusing to hold a person of color responsible for abject moral failures. If that’s the kind of nonsense Joe was speaking towards, then yea, that would be rolling over to the ideological tsunami sweeping the left. But my guess is Joe was speaking more towards the former type of racism than the latter type of “racism”. Because if it was more of the latter, you know damn well that ESPN would go all in on amplifying it.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 7:55 am to Bench McElroy
When poliboard dwellers who swore off the NFL still pay attention to the NFL
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