{"id":868608,"date":"2021-10-11T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=868608"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T21:44:16","slug":"following-release-of-racially-insensitive-email-from-jon-gruden-raiders-players-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/following-release-of-racially-insensitive-email-from-jon-gruden-raiders-players-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Release Of Racially Insensitive Email From Jon Gruden, Raiders Players Speak Out"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ffollowing-release-of-racially-insensitive-email-from-jon-gruden-raiders-players-speak-out%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=868608&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345921378.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is dealing with the backlash from a racially insensitive email he sent in 2011 regarding the <\/span><span>executive director of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jon-gruden-email-demaurice-smith-11633721045\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Gruden sent an email to Bruce Allen \u2014 the then president of the Washington Redskins \u2014 now the Washington Football Team.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,\u201d Gruden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jon-gruden-email-demaurice-smith-11633721045\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>, according to the WSJ.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The email has caused an uproar in the NFL community and online, as it has been deemed as racist by many, including by the subject of the email.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is not the first racist comment that I\u2019ve heard and it probably will not be the last,\u201d Smith <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/32362483\/report-jon-gruden-used-racist-comment-referring-nflpa-head-demaurice-smith-2011-email\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> the Journal. \u201cThis is a thick-skin job for someone with dark skin, just like it always has been for many people who look like me and work in corporate America. You know people are sometimes saying things behind your back that are racist just like you see people talk and write about you using thinly coded and racist language.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRacism like this comes from the fact that I\u2019m at the same table as they are and they don\u2019t think someone who looks like me belongs,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI\u2019m sorry my family has to see something like this but I would rather they know. I will not let it define me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the Raiders 20-9 loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday, Gruden and his players were asked about the email.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll I can say is I\u2019m not a racist,\u201d Gruden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/32377814\/las-vegas-raiders-players-react-jon-gruden-2011-emails-coach-apologizes-again\">said<\/a>&nbsp;when asked if there were any other \u201cracial\u201d remarks that could be published. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how sick I am. I apologize again to De Smith. But I feel good about who I am, what I\u2019ve done my entire life. And I apologize for the insensitive remarks I had. I had no racial intentions with those remarks at all. \u2026 I\u2019m not like that at all. But I apologize.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t remember a lot of the things that transpired 10 or 12 years ago, but I stand here in front of everybody apologizing. I don\u2019t have an ounce of racism in me. I\u2019m a guy that takes pride in leading people together. And I\u2019ll continue to do that the rest of my life. And, again, I apologize to De Smith and anybody out there I have offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Gruden said that he had not yet heard from the NFL regarding the 2011 email.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His players appeared to defend him, with running back Josh Jacobs saying that \u201cpeople grow.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been around this guy for three years now; I\u2019ve never felt a certain type of way about him,\u201d Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/32377814\/las-vegas-raiders-players-react-jon-gruden-2011-emails-coach-apologizes-again\">said<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s never rubbed me a certain way, that type of way. I mean, what he said is what he said at the end of the day too. But I mean, I definitely trust him. I mean, it was 10 years ago. People grow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Linebacker Denzel Perryman said he \u201ccould care less.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI let it go as soon as we walked out of the meeting room,\u201d Perryman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/32377814\/las-vegas-raiders-players-react-jon-gruden-2011-emails-coach-apologizes-again\">said<\/a>. \u201cI wasn\u2019t focused on that. Still not focused on it. So, I mean, I don\u2019t know what he said. I could care less, honestly. I don\u2019t know how many years ago it was, but my main focus this week was on the Bears, not whatever he had going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the Journal\u2019s report on Friday, both the NFL and Raiders owner Mark Davis put out statements condemning the email.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL\u2019s values,\u201d a league spokesperson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/raiders-nfl-condemn-jon-gruden-for-using-racial-trope-in-2011-email-to-describe-\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWe condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Davis said the organization was reviewing the situation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe content of an email regarding DeMaurice Smith from Jon Gruden when he worked for ESPN 10 years ago is disturbing and not what the Raiders stand for. We were first made aware of the email late yesterday by a reporter and are reviewing it along with other materials provided to us today by the NFL,\u201d Davis said in a statement. \u201cWe are addressing the matter with Coach Gruden and will have no further comment at this time.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gruden told the Journal that he was upset at the time of the email, as he didn\u2019t like how the players were going about the negotiations with the league.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was upset,\u201d Gruden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jon-gruden-email-demaurice-smith-11633721045\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI used a horrible way of explaining it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s dumb. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a liar,\u201d Gruden said. \u201cI don\u2019t have a racial bone in my body, and I\u2019ve proven that for 58 years.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to&nbsp;<\/i><i>sports@dailywire.com<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is dealing with the backlash from a racially insensitive email he sent in 2011 regarding the executive director of the NFL Players Association, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868608","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=868608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}