you know mike i'll tell you
i have so many people ask me
knowing that i've i've interviewed uh
bill belichick many times
knowing that i've written a few books
not necessarily about belichick directly
about but belichick's practices
and the entire organization they've
asked me what's he like you know
is he like is he really like he is in
those press conferences all the time
and you know this as well no no he's not
like that
that is bill belichick acting he acts
that way on purpose i know you find that
hard to believe but he does
uh he is a he is a multi-dimensional
very intelligent man not just he's just
not just a smart football coach he's a
smart person
if he were doing anything else he'd be
excellent at it that's just
the way he's built but i would also say
mike that he is a very loyal
person and that is one of his strengths
and i think given the current
environment that is also
uh one of the weaknesses i'll tell you
about his loyalty if you are
if you are a friend of bill belichick's
he's down with you man
he's down with you you saw that he made
a political statement
in support of armenians and it's not the
first political statement that he has
made
in support of armenians he even went on
instagram
on bears nigerian who is of armenian
descent
he he went on his instagram page and
said hey i stand in solidarity with you
uh there are there's a huge armenian
community in boston
i think it's 50 000 armenians in boston
and he said you've always come through
the armenian people persevere
and i like that he did this rightfully
so i mean this goes back
i i think i never like to compare the
oppression
of people like oppression itself
injustice itself is bad i don't like to
go with
well this injustice this oppression is
let me compare it let me put it on a
ranking list with this
i like to just historically look at some
of the parallels
and i think african americans
could really relate to some of the
things that armenians
are still in conversation about and
still
in trauma over because the one thing
that they're they're
they're they're really fighting for many
things they're fighting for but one
thing they're fighting for
is something mike that happened in 1915.
it was genocide the genocide 1.5 million
armenians at the hands
of the ottoman turks and so
it wasn't just the genocide it was the
denial that had happened
oh am i speaking yet am i am i saying
something that resonates yet
that you did something and you deny
how destructive it was right
we you talk about african-americans one
of the things that bothers
us is this lack of acknowledgement
that the trauma was as deep and the
oppression was as deep as it was
and still here we are in the 21st
century where people still won't even
acknowledge
that what happened happened you feel me
all right so i think i think bill
belichick did a great job
of acknowledging this and standing up
for a human rights violation human
rights violations
that continue to happen in 2020
that's loyalty for a friend and i
applaud him for doing that because he
usually doesn't make
political statements flipside
one of his friends that he remains loyal
to
is the president of the united states
donald trump and because he's loyal to
trump
there are some things that he could be
saying right now and i know
there are things that he would not allow
his football team
to stand for he wouldn't allow his
football team to say
that the president is doing right now
some behaviors that the president is
displaying
and because of loyalty bill belichick
does not speak up about that i'm glad
that he spoke up
on behalf of a friend and i wish he
would speak up
to denounce a friend or at least
separate himself from some of the things
that donald trump is doing
his silence is deafening to me
his or is it silence acceptance whatever
it is
it's a little it's it's distressing
because i know that's not
that's not really the guy that that i've
talked to before
i'm just i'm just surprised that he
could
in the irony and i'll say this and i'll
give it back to you the irony is
that the president of turkey who is
bill belichick is saying the american
government needs to do something about
this the president of turkey
has been dismissive of armenians
and connected to trump
so really what you're asking for
is your friend donald trump
to not be so negligent about this
issue that you've brought up
unsolicited in a press conference hey
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