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>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY, WE'RE BACK HERE WITH ADDACH.
EMMANUEL, ON FRIDAY, N.F.L.
COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL MADE A VIDEO SUPPORTING PLAQUE LIVES
MATTER AND ENCOURAGING PLAYERS TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST.
DID THAT-- THAT'S A HUGE SHIFT AFTER YEARS OF BASHING, YOU
KNOW, COLIN KAEPERNICK AND OTHER PLAYERS PEACEFULLY KNEELING.
WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THAT?
>> TALK IS CHEAP.
TALK IS CHEAP, STEPHEN.
I NEED TO SEE ACTION.
IT CONTRADICTS HIS PREVIOUS MESSAGES FOR YEARS.
IN 2018, THE N.F.L. SAYS PLAYERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KNEEL FOR THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST, YOU BETTER STAY YOUR
BUTT INSIDE.
AND NOW IN 2020, ROGER GOODELL COMES OUT AND SAYS, "WE WERE
WRONG.
WE MADE A MISTAKE."
WELL, HOW WRONG WERE YOU, GOODELL?
THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.
HOW WRONG WERE YOU?
WERE YOU WRONG ENOUGH TO ALLOW PLAYERS TO ATTACK A KNEE DURING
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OR WERE YOU ONLY WRONG ENOUGH TO COMPOSE A
SWEET TWOOET?
I ADMIRE THE FACT HE COMPOSED THE TWEET BUT TALK IS CHEAP.
I WANT TO SEE GOODELL DO THE RIGHT THING.
I'M SO TIRED OF PUTTING OUT A POLITICAL STATEMENT.
I WANT TO SEE REAL ACTION.
>> Stephen: WHAT ABOUT AN APOLOGY, A REAL APOLOGY, AS
WELL?
ALSO TO COLIN KAEPERNICK AND TO ALL THE OTHER PLAYERS WHO NOT
ONLY WERE CRFSED FOR DOING IT BUT CONFLATED WITH NOT
SUPPORTING THE TROOPS, QUESTIONING THEIR PATRIOTISM.
DON'T ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE DESERVE AN APOLOGY?
>> WHO'S GOING TO GIVE THE APOLOGY.
THAT'S THE QUESTION.
IT'S NOT JUST GOODELL.
IF KAT WERE TO GET AN APOLOGY IT NEEDS TO BE ALL 32 N.F.L.
OWNERS.
IT WOULD ALSO THEN NEED TO BE GOODELL.
BECAUSE THE OWNERS ARE THE ONES WHO DICTATE, SO TO SPEAK, ALONG
WITH THE GENERAL MANAGERS AND THE COACHES WHO IS ON THAT
ROSTER.
BUT TO APOLOGIZE IS TO ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG.
TO APOLOGIZE TO KAEPERNICK IS TO ADMIT YOU COLLUDED.
AND I DON'T THINK THE OWNERS ARE CAPABLE NOR WILLING TO DO THAT
BECAUSE TO APOLOGIZE TO KAP IS TO NOW BRING HIM ON YOUR ROSTER.
BUT ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THAT BIG A LEAP OF FAITH?
OR ARE YOU ONLY WILLING TO TWEET SOMETHING OUT SO YOU CAN GET A
COUPLE OF RETWETWEETS AND CHEG O THIS BOX, SO TO SPEAK.
>> Stephen: WHAT CONCRETE ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE
FROM THE N.F.L. GOING FORWARD?
WHAT WOULD BRING ABOUT SOME REAL CHANGE?
>> I WANT TO SEE MANDATED INTEGRATION ON THE COACHING
LEVEL.
AND, HONESTLY, PROBABLY ON THE MANAGEMENT LEVEL.
IT'S NOT ENOUGH, STEPHEN, TO HAVE A ROONEY RULE WHERE YOU
SIMPLY HAVE TO INTERVIEW A COACH, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HEAD
COACH, WHEN THERE'S A HEAD COACHING VACANCY.
I WANT TO SEE A MANDATED NUMBER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COACHES IN
THE N.F.L.
AND I'LL SAY IT BECAUSE OF THIS-- NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT
TO DO BLACK PEOPLE A FAVOR.
BUT IF YOU WANT TO INCREASE THE LEVEL OF THE GAME, THEN YOU
CHANGE THE RULE.
THE N.F.L. CHANGES RULES EVERY OFF SEASON FROM CONCUSSION
PROTOCOLS TO BLOCKING RULES TO INCREASE THE LEVEL OF THE GAME.
WELL, IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK AND YOU LOOK AT ANY SPORT, WHETHER
MUHAMMAD ALLY, SERENA WILLIAMS, WHETHER TIGER WOODS, WHETHER
MISTY COPELAND, WHEN YOU ALLOW FOR INTERIGRATION AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL OF THE QUALITY OF THE SPORT INCREASES.
IN 2003, THE N.F.L. IMPLEMENTED THE ROONEY RULE.
IN 2007, FOUR YEARS LATER, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN N.F.L. HISTORY
TWO BLACK COACHES MET IN THE SUPER BOWL.
THAT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE.
I WANT TO SEE THE N.F.L. MANDATE INTEGRATION IN COACHING.
>> Stephen: FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T FOLLOW ALL THE SPORTS
ALL THE TIME WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THIS
PROGRESS BE MADE ON THE FIELD FOR THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL?
>> BECAUSE THE N.F.L. LITERALLY OWNS ONE DAY OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAY IS DEDICATED TO N.F.L.
FOOTBALL.
MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS.
WHAT WE SEE FROM SOME OF OUR WEALTHIEST MEN THAT ARE N.F.L.
OWNERS, WHAT WE SEE FROM ONE OF OUR MOST BELOVED GAMES WILL
INFILTRATE THE MINDS OF THE CULTURE.
REMEMBER, STEPHEN, THE N.F.L.
SAID THAT KNEELING WAS DISRESPECTING THE FLAG.
AND SO THE ENTIRE WORLD BEGAN TO BELIEVE THAT KNEELING WAS
DISRESPECTING THE FLAG.
SO IF THE N.F.L. WERE TO SAY IT IS IMPERATIVE TO HAVE AFRICAN
AMERICANS, PEOPLE OF COLOR IN A COACHING STAFF, IMAGINE THE
RIPPLE EFFECT IT WILL HAVE ON THE WORLD.
THE N.F.L. NEEDS TO LEAD THE CHARGE BECAUSE IT ALREADY OWNS
ONE DAY OF THE WEEK.
>> Stephen: EMMANUEL, THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
>> THANK YOU, MY FRIEND.
>> Stephen: YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT "UNCOMFORTABLE
CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN" AT uncomfortableconvos.com.
EMMANUEL ACHO, EVERYBODY.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THE ANCHOR OF "FOX NEWS SUNDAY,"
CHRIS WALLACE.
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