Devin and Jason McCourty have always been advocates for social change, and they spoke out yet again against police brutality, systemic racism and inequality in wake of the shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin this week.
Devin McCourty indicated that he’s felt many different emotions in regards to what has transpired over the past couple of days. He has been using his voice over the past couple of months to advocate for social change. Jason McCourty, however, admitted he was at a loss, and was beginning to feel hopeless.
Both brothers have never been afraid to voice their opinion while with the New England Patriots, who were not among the teams that decided to boycott or postpone practice in wake of the shootings. It sounds like the McCourty twins are frustrated with pushing for change that simply isn’t happening.
“I’ve been thinking a lot the last couple of days. I’ve had so many different emotions of being angry, being sad. A lot of it has really been what I try to talk to a lot of kids about. I’ve felt very hopeless,” he said. “I don’t have a statement. I don’t have anything powerful. It’s just been very disheartening. Just watching things transpire, watching lives still be lost and it’s not just police brutality. It’s everything we deal with. Even today, I’m going to come on here and you’re going to ask me questions and it’s going to be my opinions on different things. I just feel like overall until people turn on different things and we watch that and still have the same outlook like, ‘Man, what is going on? This is heartbreaking. This is terrible,’ it just doesn’t matter. I’ve just felt very hopeless the last couple of days.”
Jason McCourty had a similar reflection.
“We’re just lost, man. It’s almost like a sense of hopelessness. In March, we had a team discussion, via WebEx, and we all talked about it, and here we are, months later, and we’re talking about the same exact thing. And it’s like, ‘Alright, do we cancel practice?’ But if we cancel practice today on a Thursday, do we cancel practice tomorrow on a Friday? What’s going to get us to go out and practice the next day? If we cancel practice today, we sit around, we discuss race, we discuss what happened to Jacob Blake, or we talk about what’s continuing to happen in our country for hundreds of years, but then we go out and practice tomorrow, nobody cares. I think, for us, right now, we’re trying to figure it out.”
The McCourty’s have always proven to be advocates, one of the many qualities that have stayed consistent during their time in New England. It’s just another way their impact can be felt off the field.
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