Jemele Hill
speaker
1,138 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 6 Sep
Jemele Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Don Lemon Show · Trump's China Trip, Voting Rights Battles & the Kevin Hart Roast · 17 May 2026
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But you're asking them to sacrifice something they've worked hard for their whole lives, which is having the opportunity to provide for their families and create a sense of generational wealth and to therefore leverage what they do.
at these universities to get to the NFL, we're saying, no, no, even though we can't even fortify our own support, you go out there and make all the sacrifices while we comfortably sit in our living rooms and watch Tennessee football every Saturday anyway.
Go ahead and take a listen.
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 is 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.
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