{"id":327720,"date":"2017-09-26T06:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/former-nfl-player-donte-stallworth-dont-let-trump-hijack-the-conversation-on-racism-and-violence\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T06:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:15:45","slug":"former-nfl-player-donte-stallworth-dont-let-trump-hijack-the-conversation-on-racism-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/former-nfl-player-donte-stallworth-dont-let-trump-hijack-the-conversation-on-racism-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Player Dont\u00e9 Stallworth: Don't Let Trump Hijack the Conversation on Racism and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a campaign rally in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday evening, Trump lashed out at players who have joined a growing protest movement started by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick against racial injustice, kneeling during the national anthem ahead of games. We get response from former\u00a0NFL\u00a0player Dont\u00e9 Stallworth, who spent 10 years in the league and is now a sports commentator, who says, “We can’t allow the president to hijack this conversation and make it all about him.”<\/p>\n

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AMY\u00a0GOODMAN:<\/strong>\u00a0I wanted to bring in our third guest, who has been waiting patiently, Dont\u00e9 Stallworth, former\u00a0NFL\u00a0star. Oh, you’ve played with the Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and beyond. A lot of those teams took action yesterday. Your thoughts and feelings as you saw them on the field and also those that just stayed back in the locker room for the playing of the national anthem?<\/p>\n

DONT\u00c9\u00a0STALLWORTH:\u00a0<\/strong>First, I wanted to say that I totally agree with and share Dave’s sentiments on Dr. Edwards and appreciate everything that he has done and everything that he is continuing to do in staying engaged in this political debate and in this environment.<\/p>\n

HARRY\u00a0EDWARDS:<\/strong>\u00a0You guys are going to make me cry. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

DONT\u00c9\u00a0STALLWORTH:<\/strong>\u00a0And yeah, so we just wanted to say, definitely, definitely appreciate you, Dr. Edwards.<\/p>\n

HARRY\u00a0EDWARDS:\u00a0<\/strong>Thank you.<\/p>\n

DONT\u00c9\u00a0STALLWORTH:<\/strong>\u00a0Amy, I believe that when you look at the players — and we all kind of use the word “solidarity,” and that’s exactly what it is. It’s brotherhood amongst people that are in the locker room. We see each other every day. We are essentially like family, and we treat each other like brothers. And so when I see guys that have — long before today or long before the last couple weeks, guys have been engaged in this political discourse, not just by talking about it, but they’ve been engaged, where the president…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At a campaign rally in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday evening, Trump lashed out at players who have joined a growing protest movement started by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick against racial injustice, kneeling during the national anthem ahead of games. We get response from former\u00a0NFL\u00a0player Dont\u00e9 Stallworth, who spent 10 years in the league and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}