Roy Wood Jr.
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So I think that's the biggest difference.
But, you know, I just think that if industries, if sports were to not take itself so seriously, it would take one quadrant.
to not take itself so seriously, be it the journalists who don't want to be criticized ever, be it the fans, be it the players, be it the owners.
One of those four corners.
If one of those four corners lets off a load and goes, ah, we can laugh about it, then it would be okay.
But it's too much money involved.
It's way too much money involved.
I wasn't moved.
I was more inspired by Stuart Scott and Fred Hickman than I was my father in the beginning.
Cause my dad's work was more, he was a true radio news guy.
Like he went out and was embedded in wars, getting shot at with a tape recorder, Vietnam, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe.
Now South African riots, civil rights movement, name a name, a riot in the sixties.
My pops was there.
So a man like that was,
who then matriculates into working in Chicago at WVON and starting, co-founding what we knew at the time as the National Black News Network, NBN.
NBN was essentially a news outlet, a national syndicated news outlet that delivered news for Black people to let Black people know what's going on.
Here's the news that's relevant to us.
And here's what this means for you.
Here's what this policy thing means for us.
You know, just being the news window between Black people and