Bomani Jones
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Dec
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Well, I always felt, though, that George Floyd was a moment that was really eight years in the making. It goes from Trayvon Martin to George Floyd with four years of Trump tacked on on the back end of that. And then there was this –
George Floyd, it was so egregious what happened that we could go back and look at who the people were who always say the terrible thing, and they were like, hey, not this week.
right like this is the one they're like all right we'll give you this one yeah yeah yeah yeah like there's a guy that owns a website whose name i refuse to say and i think you know who i'm talking about even he yes refused he's like no no no no no we're not doing it this time and it was such a wild couple weeks my favorite story about that drew breeze got in trouble because he had gone on some news show and in this time was asked about the national anthem and he said i think we should stand for the end the standard drew breeze answer drew breeze did not realize that we were in the
And he gave the standard Drew Brees answer. And everybody came down on him. One of his teammates even said, fuck you to him. Like, it was wild, everything that happened. But I'll never forget, I was trying to explain to people. I'm like, look, that's always been his answer about the National Anthem. He pressed the National Anthem button. And that was what came out because it always comes out.
And Drew Brees' money is not affected by this. And the point that I made was I went to the Wrangler Twitter account. And this is when everybody was putting out jeans, Wrangler jeans. And everybody was putting out like the black squares with their statements about George Floyd and everything else. And I was like, look, Wrangler has not put one of these out. And you know why?
Because that Wrangler money doesn't care about this. Their audience does not care. And the point I was making was that it was okay, right? That's not who their brand speaks to.
Right. And clearly, neither did Wrangler, right? Because they did.
But let me tell you this. The very next day, there was a post on the Wrangler Twitter account
about this and this would happen from time to time stuff like this could happen where I'd be on my show joking about something like once the NBA store had old Golden State Warriors gear but it was Philadelphia Warriors and I had not fully realized that Warriors means Indians like all the things that all the things that are Warriors used to be Indians like I had a baseball team that was the Warriors when I was a kid and it was blue with red letters it didn't dawn on me that it was really the Cleveland Indians right
And so it's this wildly offensive imagery on this throwback merchandise that is being sold at the NBA store for the Warriors. I didn't even know it existed. I said something about it on my podcast. I laughed about it. The next day it was gone. Gone, I tell you, gone. And I'm like, dog, I wasn't even getting on you. I was just laughing.
Well, in sports, I think the example that people typically point to is the NBA bubble and putting Black Lives Matter on the floor and the slogans on the back of jerseys. It was ham-fisted. They didn't know what to do. But if you weren't here for that moment, it's hard to explain how pressing it was. And these boys are talking about not playing. It was all falling apart.
They had to do whatever it was.
I don't know if I would say that there were things that went too far. I don't think that there was anything tangible that really mattered that went too far.
I do think what happened, though, was that, as is the case with most social revolutions, if we will call this a revolution for this discussion, is they're normally spearheaded by young people, and it was spearheaded by this generation of young people that is very, very concerned with language. and very concerned with feelings as much as it is anything tangible. Oh, they love feelings.
And so these corporate offices and stuff that were full of these young people who got these Slack channels and they were getting everything going, it was about keeping them together and everybody holding the line because everybody's stuck at home. They're frustrated. You know how terrible COVID had to be for white people to get on board in the way they did with this black cause?
It was so much that was going on and... It is fair to make the argument that the people who were in charge just weren't quite ready for all the responsibility and everything that would then come from that moment. But the truth is that moment lasted for like three weeks, maybe four. Yeah.
That's for something that is so ultimately benign.
It did a lot. And it was – I actually thought that around college places that there would be, if nothing else, an understanding that this is good for business.
When this gets far enough away for people to do the documentaries on it and we can go back and look at all Lane Kiffin going down to the Lane Kiffin and the late Mike Leach going down to the state house in Mississippi to get the flag down, to get the flag changed. Mike Leach did it? Mike Leach. And I look, I want to FOIA the emails that it took for them to make that happen.
Cause Mike Leach don't, he's like, look, I don't need players to play. We all need to recruit.
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