{"id":460961,"date":"2021-04-28T17:50:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460961"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:50:26","slug":"football-aint-a-place-where-you-hide-behind-race-former-nfl-safety-on-woke-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/football-aint-a-place-where-you-hide-behind-race-former-nfl-safety-on-woke-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Football ain\u2019t a place where you hide behind race\u2019: Former NFL Safety On Woke Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffootball-aint-a-place-where-you-hide-behind-race-former-nfl-safety-on-woke-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460961&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3963.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>On the eve of the 2021 NFL Draft, woke websites like ESPN still want us to believe that race plays a factor in which quarterbacks are taken in the draft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, ESPN\u2019s Martenzie Johnson wrote a piece titled, <\/span><span>\u201cJustin Fields And The Double Standard Of Black Quarterback Prospects.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead of discussing the nuances of the draft process, ESPN took the easy way out \u2014 they played the race card.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen it comes to black quarterbacks in particular,\u201d Johnson writes, \u201cthe NFL has long gone out of its way to keep the position as white as the painted yard lines on the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To kickoff the 2020 NFL season, there were a record 10 black quarterbacks to start behind center. It\u2019s a far cry from the days in which black quarterbacks were rarely chosen to play the position. The NFL \u2014 and America \u2014 has come a long way, but according to ESPN, black quarterbacks still face an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Yes. The Daily Wire is covering sports \u2013 without the woke. Want more? <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe?utm_source=adwords&#038;utm_term=daily%20wire&#038;utm_campaign=Search+-+Daily+Wire+Brand&#038;utm_medium=ppc&#038;hsa_kw=daily%20wire&#038;hsa_ad=432007871445&#038;hsa_src=g&#038;hsa_ver=3&#038;hsa_grp=71680674390&#038;hsa_cam=927227687&#038;hsa_tgt=kwd-316236076046&#038;hsa_acc=6411461344&#038;hsa_mt=p&#038;hsa_net=adwords&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjw1PSDBhDbARIsAPeTqrfwVNC1MZnI5ZRWdzEbOk3Pjz0oFVeTr7sA8iGOgsyrhbqydkk91vsaAkuXEALw_wcB\"><b><i>Become a member.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Wire spoke with Jack Brewer, former NFL player turned professor, entrepreneur, and founder of The Jack Brewer Foundation, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejackbrewerfoundation.org\/about\/\">non-profit<\/a> combating poverty and human rights abuses worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DAILY WIRE: ESPN ran an article on Justin Fields and how he\u2019s dropping in the draft. The claim is that this drop is due to the fact that he\u2019s a black quarterback. Do you think it\u2019s still a problem in the NFL? We see so many black quarterbacks in the NFL today, but what are your thoughts on it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>BREWER: That one is hard for me to swallow because I know growing up, when I grew up and playing football and through the eighties and high school in the nineties, if you were fast \u2014 particularly black kids that could run \u2014 they weren\u2019t letting you play quarterback. You were playing receiver or running back. So we were 100% denied opportunities, that generation. And so when you look at quarterbacks now, you got to look at the generation in which they grew up in. Today, I can\u2019t tell you that my black son is going to have less ability because he\u2019s black in American society. Now, my dad definitely had less abilities and different things, but at some point you can break through those barriers. And right now, looking at everything from college football to pro football and the way that the players that you see playing in the leagues and the schemes that they\u2019re running, it will be very hard for someone to tell me that because of someone\u2019s color of their skin, that they aren\u2019t getting an opportunity in football \u2013 a sport that I think has 78% blackness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And a lot of quarterbacks \u2014 10? 10 starters. Now, if the white starters weren\u2019t performing, but there were some pretty good white quarterbacks too. You know what I\u2019m saying? Football ain\u2019t a place where you hide behind race. Like you either make plays or you don\u2019t. There\u2019s no hiding. So, I don\u2019t buy that right now. I think that\u2019s gonna hurt the game if they keep doing it, because we fought so hard. My generation and generations before fought so hard for equality, that if we allow us to hold on to that, and we don\u2019t give credit where credit is due and speak truth, they can come back and hurt us. But I just don\u2019t see that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DAILY WIRE: I agree and I think it\u2019s pretty straightforward. But I do think there is more work that needs to be done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>BREWER: Yeah, there is. I mean, if you talk about coaching opportunities, there may be some of that. If you talk about the front office \u2014 I can\u2019t comment on that because I\u2019m not as knowledgeable on it \u2014 but pure players in any position in the NFL? Pick them up. Pure players, it\u2019s hard for me to say that. You got too many tests, and if you got a dude that\u2019s super intelligent, that has the skills and makes the throws, and has shown everything else, you be hard to tell me that in this day and age, that somebody is still worried about the color of their skin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You went from Russell Wilson, to Lamar Jackson, you got players that are just the cream of the crop. People want that to be the case at this point. That\u2019s what\u2019s sad, is it gets to the point where people want oppression to exist. It\u2019s like they\u2019re wishing it into existence. It\u2019s terrible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers and the NBA for Sporting News. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the 2021 NFL Draft, woke websites like ESPN still want us to believe that race plays a factor in which quarterbacks are taken in the draft.\u00a0On &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276948,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3963.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Football ain\u2019t a place where you hide behind race\u2019: Former NFL Safety On Woke Sports","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3963.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Football ain\u2019t a place where you hide behind race\u2019: Former NFL Safety On Woke Sports","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}