We included the clip from former NBA star and ESPN personality Jalen Rose on ESPN’s Friday edition of Get Up! in our roundup of how the sports world was reacting to the death of George Floyd and the protests that have since followed in Minnesota and around the country.
But they needed more of a spotlight — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James seemed to agree after he tweeted out Rose’s video on Friday — so we’re breaking it out here.
Rose had so much to say in just two minutes on the morning show, but I’d say the biggest message is this: “We need people who aren’t black, we need people who aren’t brown. When you know these things are happening in your society to have a voice, a legitimate one, lock and step with us, protest with us, post with us, not just when it’s convenient, when it can be uncomfortable.”
Watch below:
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— Jalen Rose (@JalenRose) May 29, 2020
“The image of Colin Kaepernick taking a knee at a football game during the national anthem is the exact one that we see in Minnesota, when a guy was laying on the ground for over eight minutes, handcuffed, with a knee to his neck, and was murdered. Let’s start calling these things what they are. These are murderings. These are lynchings. These things have caused pain in our society, for our community, for hundreds of years. We’ve been screaming out for your assistance.”
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