Jon Gruden is no longer the Raiders
coach after emails revealed that he
made homophobic, racist and
sexist remarks.
Now in a statement Gruden said the
following, I love the Raiders and
do not want to be a distraction.
Thank you to all the players,
coaches, staff and
fans of Raider Nation.
I'm sorry,
I never meant to hurt anyone.
Now the tone of the emails
in question certainly seemed like
he meant to hurt people, or
at least had some pretty awful
views of various people.
Now the resignation letter came
almost immediately after
the New York Times had reported on
email exchanges between Gruden and
Bruce Allen while Allen was
the president of the Redskins,
which of course now is known
as the Washington Football Team.
They're expected to debut their new
name next year.
But nonetheless, Gruden's departure
from the team comes as other
outlets have also reported various
details about what he had said
in these exchanges, email exchanges
between 2011 and 2018.
And the Times report for
instance Gruden also reportedly
said that Rodger Goodell should not
have encouraged Jeff Fisher,
who was then coaching the Rams,
to draft queers, which was
a reference to Michael Sam, a gay
player the team added in 2014.
Gruden also called for the firing
of Eric Reid, who knelt during
the playing of the national anthem.
By the way, he also referred
to Goodell with an anti-gay slur,
the F word, you can
obviously figure out what that is.
Gruden also exchanged emails with
Allen and other men that contained
photos of women who were only
wearing bikini bottoms,
according to the Times.
One of the photos featured an email
reportedly showing two
Washington Football Team
cheerleaders, topless.
So this was all going on,
I've got more details
about the emails and more.
But he has decided to step down,
my guess is he was probably
going to be forced to resign.
So he stepped down claiming that
he didn't want to be a distraction.
>> Yeah, so in the beginning there
was just one email, JR and I talked
about on the show last night and
it was about the player association
leads, lips and it was a racist
stereotype and trope.
And, at time I said that they
should have a conversation on TV
about it, including Gruden,
because this is what I say almost
every time rather than just firing
him and having everybody get mad.
Let's talk it through and
see why that's a racist trope,
especially if he didn't know it.
And I said, well,
I don't know who Gruden is.
I have no idea if he's a guy,
who normally thinks this or
was an aberration and he really
meant that the guy was lying,
it was his defense.
And if he didn't mean it,
then that conversation they have on
air would help to educate him and
educate other people who don't know
about it.
And I've suggested that 100 times
with Megan Kelly etc, right?
Now you see all the emails, no,
that he definitely meant it,
context is everything.
So he wasn't joking, he wasn't
among friends who are gay or
black, etc.
He wasn't like inside the family.
No, it was a bunch of white
right-wingers who were in positions
of power at the time, Gruden was on
ESPN, but he's joking with the,
I think it was the general manager
of the Washington Football Team.
Okay, who's another
deeply Republican, right-winger and
they're all talking about how gay
people are terrible, they
shouldn't be allowed in the NFL.
Women are terrible, they shouldn't
be allowed to be referees.
Look, if people like to focus
on the things that they think
are easiest to defend.
They passing around a naked
pictures, that's not our business.
Okay, if it was just random naked
pictures, okay, I guess.
And that sort context matters and
by the way, people on the left
might be mad at me for
saying that, right?
But it wasn't random people.
It was people who worked for
Bruce Allen.
They work for
the Washington Football Team.
They were cheerleaders there.
>> Right. >> This guy's passing
around, his employees pictures and
groans, yeah, way to go, way to
look at your employees naked,
right?
Right now the only openly gay
player is on the Raiders and Gruden
in the email says you shouldn't
draft queers, it's no way.
And then Eric Reid,
all these people that don't know
anything about football, yeah,
Colin Kaepernick, he wasn't banned
from the league because he was
protesting police abuse.
He wouldn't have made
the league anyway.
You guys don't know a damn thing
about football.
We had quarterbacks throwing five
interceptions and a half.
Colin Kaepernick ran for
181 yards in a legendary game in
the playoffs,
brought them to Super Bowl, anyway,
I'm not having that conversation.
But Eric Reid is also
an indisputably great player.
And in the emails,
Gruden says he should be fired for
kneeling.
So, he's so deeply racist, that he
says, even great players, if they
dare protest the police killing
unarmed black men, they should be
immediately fired from the league.
Nah, he's a terrible guy,
terrible guy and of course was
conservative reaction.
Almost every conservative online,
Don Jr., everyone on Newsmax,
SYN, they're like poor Jon Gruden,
he was just being racist and
sexist and
homophobic like the rest of us.
My God, I can't believe they
cancelled him, well, how are black
players supposed to work with them?
How's the gay players supposed to
work with them when they know
he hates them?
That's insane.
It's insane.
You guys don't get it.
So of course,
I'll summarize with Charlie Kirk.
He says the real reason they had to
get rid of Jon Gruden is because
he's a white Catholic conservative
male who speaks out.
>> He didn't speak out.
>> That's exactly right, Anna.
He didn't speak out.
He just talked to his other right
wing friends.
And he's like now guys remember,
and remember the guy he's talking
to, is in charge of
the Washington team.
He makes decisions
on who they hire.
Do they want female referees in
their games or don't they?
Are they going to draft a gay
player or are they going to ban
every gay player because that's
apparently what Gruden wants?
Are they going to fire any black
player who
dares to protest police abuse?
That's what Gruden wanted.
He wasn't public about that.
And when he was caught with that,
just that one email,
he came out to I don't have racial
bone in my body.
No, he's a giant liar.
Screw Gruden.
And then by the way, if you're
defending Gruden based on all those
comments, guess what, that means
you're racist and sexist.
And you assume, you assume that
everybody thinks like you.
And you say, what's the big deal?
Almost every conservative says,
what's the big deal,
everybody said that.
No, no, not everybody has said you
should throw out every black player
who does not favor police abuse and
throw out every gay player from
the NFL.
You guys are monsters.
And by the way, yes,
it matters the context.
So was he joking, not joking, etc.
If it was joking, it doesn't make
it good but you could have
a conversation around it.
If he didn't mean it,
you could have a conversation
around it, right?
But if he meant it,
which he most clearly did now that
we see the emails and
you think he doesn't have to go,
that he should be in charge.
Well, he's a white male Catholic.
He should be in charge of
those people and
they should know their roles.
I got news for you,
that means you're racist.