Skip and Shannon react to Drew Brees' comments about protesting during national anthem | UNDISPUTED

until something happened yesterday and that is some controversial comments that we heard from drew brees i'ma get right into it in an interview with Yahoo Finance Drew Brees said he could quote never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America BRE said he stands with his teammates for their fight for quality but also that he stands with family members who have served in the military Brees was heavily criticized by many athletes including teammates Michael Thomas Malcolm Jenkins drew Brees did issue an apology this morning on Instagram Shannon your thoughts are you surprised by this what's your reaction no and what made the black fight so hard is people like Drew Brees killed because if you can't get a guy that grew up with blacks in the locker room from high from peewee to high school to college to the NFL to understand the black man's play who will what about guys that's not around blacks on a daily basis that have not been around blacks on a daily basis like Drew Brees Drew Brees says something skipped that I found I found insulting to be a quite honest with you he said my grandfather's fault in World War two hmm I did not know two men won World War two skill they should be commended but did he know that black men fought a lot alongside his grandfather in World War two although in segregated military skill they were fighting in a foreign land from a four freedoms that when they came home they did not enjoy like Drew Brees his grandfather's dead did drew note that black men that wore military was they came home that were caught in their military uniforms a lot of times were beaten jailed and even killed mm-hmm does he realize that skip that every war that's ever been fought in American history black men have fought valiantly in that war in the Revolutionary War skip they said they are the blacks were fighting for their masters freedom freedom that they were not going to get even though they were told if you pick up arms and fight alongside us upon you returning you could gain your freedom when they came back home guess what they were enslaved again and some the reason in a lot of reasons kept George Washington signed a military act in 1792 saying blacks enjoy the military yeah they fought so well and some of the so officers said they fought so well and Bagley he took it out but guess what the British did it Briggs says if you run away and fight with us we'll give you your freedom and immediately George Washington rescinded the order I can't believe you drew what would make you think at this moment skill eight nine days after George Floyd had lost his life you would bring up the military and the flag again skip I told you skip if you want to talk about beat and I don't want to talk about B I'm gonna talk about C I'm gonna talk about D I'm gonna talk about everything except what you want to talk about because that's an issue I do not want to face drew blacks fault in World War two alongside your grandfather and did not have the freedoms that they had when they came home skip although they had sacrificed the exact same thing as his grandfather's did so let me get this phrase skip I sacrificed as much as you do in a foreign land fighting for freedom for people that when I get home I don't get Andrews like that flag means so much drew do you realize think about the black man that flag for two hundred and fifty years in slavery another 150 years of 100 for the years of Jim Crow and so you automatically assume that a black man should feel the same pride for the flag as you and your grandfather's skip that's what makes me upset skip is that something that only White's served in the military man that flag means so much my grandfather my great-grandfather I guarantee if you pose the players in the NFL they have grandfathers of great-grandfather's that served in World War two and World War one skip this what was said in August of 1917 there was a senator from Missouri named James Bart Ehrman and he warned that once a black soldier was allowed to see himself as an American hero it was one step to the conclusion that his political rights must be respected bringing black soldiers home to the south with the expectation of equality he predicted when Evelynn lead to disaster he said black soldiers as potential community leaders would be terrifying and a disaster and would be a mass movement for the American african-american right even though they went overseas to fight for freedoms when they came home they were not to enjoy that and drew brees still doesn't seem to get it now he issued apology skill but it's meaningless because the guys know that he spoke his heart the very first time around correct I don't know if I'll I don't know what drew is gonna do but he promise you can just go ahead and retire now he it will never be the same take it from a guy that's been a leader in the locker room for a number of years at every step skip I've been the leader in the locker room what he said they go like oh yeah you know no they will never look at in the same because he spoke his heart and skill and what he said it wasn't what he said is how he said it he was defiant I will never respect the man even after all this nobody had even mentioned the flag he brought that up on his own drew I don't know what you was thinking I don't know what you hope to accomplish but whatever you hope to accomplish it failed miserably black people have been fighting for this country even though they did not get the rice that the flag said their flag the script I thought the flag meant something see I get the flag you know the clock that wave in the wind as the wind blows but it means something it's supposed to mean something if supposed to mean everything for all people freedom liberties but if the black man doesn't have the same freedoms and liberty as the white what good is the flag and drew things that well I got me you know if that's what it means to me I feel a sense of pride a sense of honor everybody doesn't feel like let that drew because it hadn't represented them in the exact same way I hear every word you just spoke and once again your words are so real and so raw and so genuine and authentic that it gives me chills over here on this side and back ginnis question about my level of surprise I was not surprised by his apology and I also was not surprised by what he said yesterday and I'm with you I believe drew brees showed you his true colors yesterday and I'm not going to completely condemn him as a bad man no he's not a bad man but he's not ignorant he's not unaware of all that has gone on it's called willful yeah it's willful but is what to me it's just willful insensitivity and he did admit to being insensitive in his apology but let's look harder at drew brees shall we he is a staunch Republican he is arch-conservative his father was a prominent trial lawyer in Austin Texas Andrew grew up in an affluent community in Austin his mother was also an attorney successful attorney and as you point out and that he loves to point out both his grandfather's served in World War two and one fought in the Battle of Okinawa that that is what he is at the utmost proud of Drew Brees is blindly about God and country God and country he can't see past his view of God and country right and he always talks about what he calls the four FS faith family football and this is a pH F philanthropy and to his credit he has given lots of money to the Katrina cause obviously in New Orleans he's given a lot of his time to charity we we know that right and drew Brees has been and I'm gonna underline has been one of the most popular quarterbacks in the history of this league is that fair to say yes I believe he has been stiff enough not mistaken he won NFL Walter Payton he did 2006 it's been a while but he did win that award yes okay we get that but now we get to I think he was asked a question I could be wrong about this because I kept seeing his answer but I'm not exactly sure the question right but I think the original question was about how would you feel if players this coming season resurrected what colin kaepernick obviously started four years ago was the pioneer trailblazer an artist he decided first to sit for the anthem then to kneel for the ant that's right how would you feel drew brees and he gave the answer that hit all your hottest buttons which is I will never that was the word he used and I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America so what he's telling you is that he feels just as strongly about disrespecting the flag as the black community feels about the murderous disrespect yes with which you have been treated for hundreds of years or at least this century by policemen in this country right yes so to me a drew brees who has always been so careful about saying and doing exactly the right thing so conscious of public revelation that that he feels so staunchly and strongly about flag right it unifies all of us drew the black community is crying out for help right and he steps into the breech of what is happening before our very eyes I believe much of white America just got woke I do I do I'm seeing an outpouring of younger white America at the protest yes I'm still watching the protest most of them that were the ones here in Southern California yesterday and you keep using the word droves they are coming out more and bigger droves yeah you're drunk yes and I'm seeing more and more younger white people right there with their black brothers and sisters they're trying right trying we're saying we're here for right now what can we do right well eyes and ears are as open to help me out I think there is open as they've ever been from younger white America why I believe so and so the next thing you have to do is you have to go vote right okay okay but the point is what has been the unifying flashpoint for this country it's that video Shannon I've been around for a while in all my years I'm getting goose bumps talking about it I have never seen as vile and a video as that video I don't know how many times I've watched it at least a dozen right and I think I've hit the point of no return but I also think that video has become a turning point for this country because this is just me and I'm old enough to have a a feeling for this for many years black men were lynched in this country back into the previous two centuries throughout the 1960s gray were lynched across the southern part of this country yes that video to mean was as close to a public lynching again I don't have video of any of those lynchings I've seen the pictures right of the black men hanging from the trees but I don't have a video I got to see the modern-day equivalent to me of a lynching in that George Floyd's neck is pinned to the ground here he's basically being publicly lynched that's again I'm probably overstating about I get as emotional almost as motional as you do about this and for 8 minutes and 46 seconds I end it for the last 253 he's dead right and and still I see a brazen arrogant white man with his hands in his pocket just crushing with his knee the neck of this man it's like a concrete lynching to me on the contest okay this is this is the breach into which drew brees just stepped he stepped in it right and and whether it's willful ignorance or however he doesn't get what just happened to this country it could be a watershed moment it could be a tipping point where finally people enough people did of all races besides the black community but suddenly you you have some sympathetic eyes and ears around this country I don't think you've ever had before right and now a prominent white player and again the black community's been crying out for please Tom Brady please enter Roger Aaron's always been great about this unbelievable it was never about that it wasn't there knew but now he's been tremendous about he's been your biggest supporter of the superstar white quarterback yes yet here's for me what crystallized the moment yesterday the receiver who caught a record number of passes lesser at NFL record number from Drew Brees is named Michael Thomas right he posted one line on Twitter just one line that just galvanized everything for me and he says about drew breeding named agrees but whatever I knew he's talking about he don't know enough to know he don't know enough to know right you you just said that in many more words powerful words he don't know enough to know okay it's as simple as that Malcolm Jenkins his new teammate who knows Drew Brees not as a teammate but just as a competitor that's a good point but he's just now joining the Saints so we're gonna see how that works out when they actually go to camp and virtual ends and camp begins right to your point we'll see how this plays but but it took Malcolm Jenkins to he just couldn't help me check down the first video cuz he was just over emotionally I thought he overreacted a little bit but then he posted a couple more and and he nailed it because he's saying drew you unfortunately you are part of the problem yes you are because I've known a lot of men like Drew Brees could you could argue this country was founded on men like right yeah with that same point of view it's it's bullheaded it's blind it's God and country skill I think the thing is is that if you notice and last night there at nine o'clock you supposed to go outside with a flash lamp and I ended up doing it eight minutes and 46 seconds and I think when it crystallizes if you think about it try and hold your breath for a minute for two minutes for three minutes for four minutes and if you're going to a courtroom skip in order to to to grasp the attention of the jury sometimes they would do things they would mass murder I can't remember I don't know if it was gay C or not but if they took 33 pictures of the young man that he had killed and about one by one they threw him in a hole because he had buried him in the crawlspace and you could see the jewelry that's pot that's one that's 33 so now will you count one minute two minutes and the attorney is gonna say okay guys I want you if you gotta watch out I want you to set your clock it is that I want you to set it to eight minutes and 43 seconds and I don't want you to say a word and I don't want you to breathe hold your breath as well as long as you can it realized what this man was going to skip it was a pass a painful death it was not instantaneous it was painful stiff it was until 1948 when our when Truman signed an executive order 99-81 in which he did segregated the military so in other words the military that you barely speak of has been very disrespectful for the black man because even the GI Bill when he came home and blacks were supposed to be allowed to get money and to buy nice homes that wasn't how it happens kill the medals that they fought for and won for bravery and valor and heroism they didn't get those they had to fight for him and a lot of it was awarded those medal posthumously meaning they got their flowers after they were dead well white baby was coming home and getting metal out the metal out the metal and drew somehow thinks that the flag is supposed to mean the exact same thing for a black man as a white man when this country has never been the same for a black man as a white man drew what country do you live in you live in a country that has afforded you privileges and luxury that the black man has never been afforded and received and you're so set in your ways that you were unwilling skip I don't remember I told you skip the man the man that can't see is it the blindness it's the one that chooses not to see drew brees truth chooses to make this about the flag as opposed to the book the plight of the unarmed black men and women being killed in this America that's what he wants to make it about because he doesn't want to talk about it and he still I don't care they use from there I mean if you notice when Malcolm gingka said I used to respect you used to that fast here yep some called him ignorant Emmanuel Sanders just got there shaking my head ignorant okay uh my Thomas as you mentioned skip around the lead LeBron James waiting Wow Eddie man even after he told you it was not about the flag you still making it about the flag skill and this is my feel skill even if you felt that way why would you burble eyes it in this climate at this moment not now agreed okay back to one of your original points you were one of the great leaders in the history of this league yes you have also told me that many times you had to play alongside a man you knew was at heart racist or or maybe whose politics or good the line with my did not allow yes and at some point you have to give it up you have to make peace with it and you have to go to battle with him just because that's just the circumstance under which teams are built right right right okay now we're talking about the leader of the team the face of the franchise of a Pantheon quarterback right by the way has all the records although every record belongs to Drew Brees completions yards touchdown passes he leads in every category all time yes so now it's that guy attempting to to Reese's the lead of the team threw an apology and I'm sure there'll be more verbals more calls to be made to again he called Malcolm yesterday you'll probably call him back and try to work through it again after things calm down right but you're saying your gut feeling is right now the team unity has been cracked yeah you can't the crap absolutely okay yep I believe they're gonna say all the possible things we're gonna rally behind this and all that but they will never view they will never look at you read the same because it's hip if I'm hurting if I'm trying the most this is not the time to abandon me this is not the time for you to interject and says well I'm still if I'm crying I'm hurt you can't come to me and tell me with man a I broke my foot to I'm hurting too bro and that's what he did he but his calls man y'all disrespecting the flag hurts me just as much as blood on black men and women getting killed in America true for real true hmm well so in the big picture will this damage his his legacy yeah think it does oh yeah yeah they're gonna bring that up let me get with you I mean he I don't think used to the extent of Ty Cobb but you cannot mention Ty Cobb yeah he has the highest lifetime batting average yes he win the Triple Crown yes he was he won what nine batting title but you can't you can't say that without saying the other part of his legacy and people will remember what Drewry said in 2020 yeah he might have all the records but man you remember him when Drew was so insensitive to the plight of the black man when he had an opportunity to step to the forefront and help yep I hear you thank you for watching you can subscribe it here to get the latest from the show and be sure to check out more of the best clips 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Length: 20min 44sec (1244 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020