Matthew Schmidt
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357 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard 1 Jul
Matthew Schmidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.
Just the most idiotic thing to say and making the symbol of racism the topic instead of the actual racism.
So the Heat, they get together in a hotel ballroom and they take this photo.
It's basically all of them with their heads bowed wearing hoodies and hashtag we are Trayvon Martin, hashtag hoodies, hashtag stereotype.
Hashtag we want justice.
Dan, you wrote a column on this after they put this out the next day.
What did it basically say?
I mean, we talk about this in the context of LeBron James, of course, but how did you see this and feel this when it came out?
This very much felt like, to me, a team thing, a sort of unity thing, a Florida thing as much as anything, and LeBron was just a part of it.
I gotta say that bothered me a little bit.
Like the idea that you don't understand the value of human life until after you have children.
Like that to me is kind of silly.
I'm probably never going to have kids and that hit home with me as well.
He hadn't done this, and I remember thinking to myself that what we want these athletes to be is these voices for a cause
what has been LeBron's cause.
And if the cause is simply racism,
great he and the team took a stance there if the cause as we go later on becomes police brutality and racism great let's do more of that i want that to be the voice that i want to hear for sports because dan you wrote in that column you talked to jim brown and jim brown said the modern day athlete doesn't get behind anything which means they're wasted a lot of their real power lebron is learning that money fame popularity and notoriety pale compared to human feelings
And consciousness.
And to me, like, I don't know if this is because I've just been watching the Vietnam doc on Netflix, but, you know, the activists, the sports related activists of the 60s and early 70s, like it was an actual cause.
There was meaning there.
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