Jemele Hill

There are a lot of people who have said, listen, I get why people are willing to believe in the conspiracy theory based on what we've seen before.

We saw Colin Kaepernick get blackballed.

You know, the story came out about Lamar Jackson and about how other teams were trying to sabotage his negotiations.

So I'm not saying NFL conspiracies don't happen and aren't true.

I just didn't see it with this particular player.

And whenever I bring that up, I get, well, they just don't want to see a confident black man and they hate his father and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, guys, I need y'all to get a little more emotionally uninvested in this, but there's no question because of his father and how much he is beloved just period by football fans.

And for a lot of black people, they look at Dion, they look at the relationship that he has with his sons and they feel like this is such a positive example of a black fatherhood, of black fatherhood that they feel very,

Understandably, a lot of our community feels very protective over Dion and Shador Sanders.

So yes, I do have to watch what I say and I have to make sure I'm being thoughtful and careful because a lot of, a lot of people are very, a lot of my people are very emotionally invested in his success.

I don't know that we have to necessarily start over, but it might have to be, it will be a black people's meeting, an important one that will be called the next day.

We might have to put some things on the agenda and get it on the table.

Listen, though, I want people to understand this is I thought Shador would get his opportunity because it's Cleveland.

They haven't developed a quarterback like literally never.

OK, like we know what they have done at that position.

And it's ugly.

It's brutal.

Right.

The fact that he was able to.

already had that historic marker of being the first Browns quarterback since I was leaving high school to actually win their debut start.