>> I like the draft because it exemplifies hard work and dedication
for young men. >> Well, well, well,
if it isn't a politician talking sports. >> I'm very happy that Tommy Tuberville won the
race. I think he's gonna be a great senator. >> But not just any politician.
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville, a Trump ally, who helped carry out the insurrections so
Trump could retain authoritarian like power. >> Cruz is among 11 Republican senators who
announced today they will object to the certification of the election results.
>> Tuberville even threw his hat in the ring to show how he kisses the Republican ring.
>> I think people should downplay politics more, be more involved in what they do.
Everybody wants to make an opinion and that's fine. But I think especially
for young people to get involved in something that maybe they might not understand as much,
I think they need to let people that whatever they do for a living, justify.
>> Incredible. Don't get involved in something
you may not understand said Tuberville. >> Our government wasn't set up for one
group to have all three branches of government. It wasn't set up that way, our three branches,
the House, the Senate, and executive. >> Now the three branches are, of course,
the executive, the legislative, which is both the House and the Senate, and the judiciary.
>> A man who knows diddly squat about government. >> He didn't stop there. Here is what
Senator-elect Tuberville said about his fears the Democrats are pushing
the country towards socialism. >> As I tell people, my dad
fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of socialists.
>> World War II was fought to defeat the Nazis who were fascists.
>> Fascism. >> I mean, a senator should know this.
>> Hey, man, let's speak knowledgeably, right? When Tuberville was asked by TMZ Sports would you
tell your players to be quiet, he doubled down. >> Just be careful. Just
talk about what you know about. >> It's funny when NFL players did
talk what they knew about, a la their real life experiences, they were shunned for it.
Again, Tuberville is speaking of NFL players where a majority are black,
per Statista,com. His assertion to only speak on what you know
is a defense of Republicans stating keep politics out of sports. When
aside from the obvious point that Tuberville was a head coach at major universities, D1 universities.
This notion is a direct rebuttal to the likes of Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid,
and many other athletes who took
a knee to protest racial injustice. >> Please don't shoot me, please man.
>> I'm not gonna shoot you, step out, face away. >> I'm gonna look at you eye to eye, man.
>> Black people are disproportionately accosted by the police.
>> Several of the latest confrontations have involved white citizens calling
police on African Americans >> Treated as the lesser.
>> In early April, two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks
when employees called police because the men had taken a table without ordering anything.
The men were later released and settled with the city for
$1 each and a pledge to establish a program for young entrepreneurs.
And have the cops called on them for just living. >> The manager come out, we not knowing why the
manager walking up. He come up with, I mean, a terrible attitude, asking us do we have a problem?
So we all lost, trying to figure out what's going on. He's saying that a white guy
said that we was verbally abusing him, talking trash to him. And it was
basically a lie and we basically got kicked out of Chipotle because of that. And they
said they was gonna call the police, or they wanted to call the police on us.
And that's what being black in America is right now. Us not even doing anything wrong. Going out
to eat with your family, just trying to spend a little bit of quality time, and
you can't even enjoy eating anymore. And we're talking about Black Lives Matter,
and for the guys to look at us and lie and laugh in our face as we walk out.
And the manager, Scott Huey, come up there and just basically kicked us out of Chipotle.
And we felt like he was very disrespectful, and that's the
white privilege that we're talking about. >> Darius Leonard of the Indianapolis Colts
is speaking on it. Why? Because these are firsthand real life experiences.
When a black athlete takes a knee, it's a symbolic gesture,
spurred by Colin Kaepernick, of course. But to say they are sick and tired of being mistreated
by police, by government-led initiatives, by the powers that be to limit minorities succeeding.
We've talked about policing hundreds of times. We've given you the numbers, the fears.
Portland Trailblazers star, Damian Lillard, said he had guns drawn on him
as a kid by police. So when I hear Republicans say we need less politics in sports, what they mean
is they want black athletes speaking out less on racial issues. After all, according to the GOP's
rebuttal last night to President Biden, there simply is no such thing as racism in America.