Jemele Hill
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 6 Sep
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And then we applaud him after so that he understands it was personal and it wasn't about him.
All right.
Thank you.
I appreciate you.
The Don Lemon Show · Trump's China Trip, Voting Rights Battles & the Kevin Hart Roast · 17 May 2026
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I'm a little torn about it, to be honest, Don, because I'm thinking about 2016 when Colin Kaepernick took a knee to bring attention to oppression, injustice, all the things that we see bore out to be truths in our society.
some players supported him most of them didn't he was alone and left on the island and as much as there were black people who supported him what did they not stop doing they never stopped watching the nfl and my concern is that we're asking these young people to sacrifice opportunities for the sake of i understand a very important wider cause that yes sec football is a
It's a nerve center.
They don't play in the South about their football.
And we know what is generating all the billions of dollars are these young black athletes whose talent that they have been able to use to fortify these universities, to build institutions, make many a white man a millionaire because of it.
the problem is that we will say yeah go go go yeah and still be watching every Saturday Georgia games Alabama games Tennessee games like all of that and so for me I actually think it's time that instead of asking the young people or at least the young people in these positions because I know a lot of the civil rights movement was started by young people thinking about the age of John Lewis thinking about the age of other activists that were important during the time
We need to create the atmosphere for them to do it and have them join a board and amplify because I just don't think with what's at stake now for them asking young people to sacrifice these opportunities when we can't hold up and do the minimal of sacrificing.
I think that is asking a lot.
No, they would not get the same one, because unfortunately, through under-resourcing institutional racism, we know that many of our HBCUs, like Tennessee State is a perfect example.
They're old.
I mean, untold millions by the state of Tennessee.
We know the position they've been put in.
And so if you have a Ohio State or a University of Alabama that is able to offer a kid a five, six, seven million dollar NIL package, most HBCUs cannot simply afford that.
The other part of it, too, is in this past NFL draft, not one single player from HBCU was drafted.
Not one.
And so, again, and it's by design what the positions that HBCUs have been put in.
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