Former Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm has been under fire lately following a tweet that exposed his ideas on who should be able to purchase gun suppressors.
The tweet showed Fromm, now with the Buffalo Bills, sent a text that said gun suppressors should be made expensive so only “elite white people” can afford them.
Fromm has since apologized for his choice of words in that text.
— JakefromStateFromm (@FrommJake) June 4, 2020
Despite the apology, a few of his former teammates took to Twitter to express their thoughts.
Former Georgia wide receiver Terry Godwin tweeted that he “lost all respect” for Fromm. And former linebacker Davin Bellamy tweeted that he was always “team Eason,” referring to Kirby Smart’s decision to roll with Fromm over Jacob Eason.
Georgia alum Maria Taylor, a former Bulldog volleyball player who is now a popular college football personality with ESPN, was disappointed in Fromm, but did choose to publicly blast the former Georgia quarterback.
“I actually reached out to him and I really want to have a discussion about what he meant by that comment,” Taylor said on ESPN’s First Take.
"Every time [prejudice] is revealed, and it's someone say you love or you've enjoyed covering, it hurts to your core. It's a death by 1,000 razor cuts. And that's how I feel when I heard about Jake Fromm."
—@MariaTaylor pic.twitter.com/9c5yf9i0ky
— First Take (@FirstTake) June 5, 2020
Full quote:
“It’s the same thing that I feel about Drew Brees. I understand that I do have to accept the apology, but I think it’s also very revealing. The difference I believe in these two situations are, Jake Fromm as the public figure that he is, anytime I’ve seen him address the media or have a conversation about racial injustice, he’s never aired on the side a comment that was not empathetic. I would not want anyone to reveal my text message conversations on Twitter either, but I think I’m getting back to that heart conversation and the conversations that we are having behind closed doors. A lot of people are having to assess the way they are talking about race to their friends, to their family. And Jake Fromm does need to issue an apology, and I don’t know if he can completely change, but I do know that he’s a twenty-one year old at the end of the day. So, he’s young, he’s made a poor decision, and I hope he calls me honestly, because I would love to talk about it. I actually reached out to him and I really want to have a discussion about what he meant by that comment and the ways he’s going to check himself moving forward or the ways in which he hopes to help his white counterparts understand why that wasn’t ok and how they should be talking about race in America.
As a black person in America, you go throughout the day assuming that people are not racist or that they do not have prejudice in their body because if we don’t we would be mad all the time. And then every time it’s revealed and it’s someone that you love or enjoyed covering, it hurts to your core, it’s a death by a thousand razor cuts.”
