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Column: The Challenge to White Quarterbacks to Step Up on Race
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English - June 06, 2020 12:50 - 6 minutes - 9.21 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsDaily News News Society & Culture spokenlayer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday that NFL players kneeling during the national anthem was "disrespectful," the condemnation, from inside and outside the NFL, was understandably swift. (In an emotional video posted on social media, teammate Malcolm Jenkins called Brees "part of the problem"; protestors in New Orleans, where Brees has been beloved, cursed him in the streets).