Another hour pro football talk live on this Thursday morning.

Extraordinary times for the National Football League.

Extraordinary times for our nation.

And look, folks, we've got to continue to deal with these issues.

I had an email a bit ago.

Mike, we turn on PFT at 7 in the morning to avoid reality for a minute. We turn to sports because we want to get away from the negativity. Nobody wants to hear even more about the news. The problem is sometimes the news invades sports. And at a time when there's no sports happening, this is the appropriate time to deal with these issues. Now, look, anyone out there can turn off their TV and can reside in their bubble and ignore these issues. But how are we ever going to move forward as a people if we don't engage, if we don't embrace, if we don't force ourselves to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, what have we done to contribute to this problem and what can we do to fix this problem? And I think walling ourselves off from the world and pretending this isn't happening is not the

solution. It's not going to get us to where we need to be as a people. Chris, as we've said time and

again, there is no middle ground here. You are either fully committed to the notion of equality and

justice for all, or you aren't. There's no other way around it. Either all men are created equal.

Either we all have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or we don't.

And if you believe we don't, well, you're living in the wrong country because in this country,

we have heard time and again. And unless those are just hollow words aimed at making us feel

good from time to time at

deluding ourselves into thinking that there is justice and equality and we all have the same rights.

Right?

If you don't live that yourself, you shouldn't be entitled to it.

You can't say, well, I just want these things for me and not for everybody else.

It's antithetical to what the country is about.

So that's why this moment is here.

And you either are in favor of equal rights for all, of liberty and justice for all.

For all.

It's simple.

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