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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Hopkins: ‘It feels like I’m a slave again’ (If he was a slave, someone needs to be arrested right now for keeping him as a slave. That is a very serious statement)
DeAndre Hopkins almost skipped game over Bob McNair's 'inmate' comment: 'Feels like I'm a slave'
(His quote below says "slave again ...go read".)
Jason Owens,Yahoo Sports21 hours ago
While supporting Colin Kaepernick, DeAndre Hopkins told GQ that
comments by late Texans owner Bob McNair made him feel like a slave.
(Getty)
DeAndre Hopkins skipped practice over late Houston Texans owner Bob McNair’s 2017 comment likening NFL players to inmates.
McNair, who died in November at
81, reportedly made the comment during a 2017 owners meeting while
discussing how to approach the issue of players kneeling during the
national anthem to protest issues of social injustice and police
brutality.
“We can't have the inmates running the prison,” McNair — a campaign contributor to President Donald Trump — said at the meeting, according to ESPN.
Hopkins: ‘Hell yeah, I was about to sit’
Hopkins, a Colin Kaepernick supporter who has knelt in protest,
expounded on his response to McNair’s comments in the GQ interview.
“Hell yeah, I was about to sit out the game,” Hopkins said. “But I
definitely wasn’t going to practice. A couple of my teammates about to
follow me, but they called them back up to the stadium. They tried
calling me, but I wasn't going back. Hell no.”
The seventh-year pro who grew up in South Carolina explained how
McNair’s comments felt to a man who’s a descendant of slaves with family
members who relayed stories about living in the Jim Crow South.
“It's hard for people to understand what that means, when your
family was slaves,” Hopkins said. “You can't relate to something like
that if your great-uncle's not telling you stories about their parents
or their grandparents and what they went through. Not even too long ago,
people couldn't even drink out of the same water faucet.”
Basically, Hopkins explained, it made him feel like he was being treated as a slave.
“It feels like I'm a slave again,” Hopkins said. “Getting ran over. Listen to the master, go to work.”
Bob McNair founded the Houston Texans and owned the team until he died in 2018. (Getty)
Hopkins gives McNair benefit of the doubt
Hopkins did go on to call McNair a “good man” in the interview, giving him the benefit of the doubt of his upbringing.
“When you grow up certain places, you talk a certain way,” Hopkins said.
Hopkins, a three-time Pro Bowler, continued to talk of his support of
Kaepernick, noting that before Deshaun Watson arrived in Houston he
hadn’t had the benefit of working with a Pro Bowl quarterback.
After working with the likes of Tom Savage, Brock Osweiler and T.J.
Yates, Hopkins argued that it was obvious that Kaepernick was being
blackballed from the NFL.
“Ain't no way around it,” Hopkins said. “You can't sugarcoat why Kaep
is not playing in the NFL. This dude played in the Super Bowl.”
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