Hang Up and Listen - Hang-Up: The Blackin’ Out the NFL and the Sun Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis is joined by former NFL player Hamza Abdullah and ESPN’s Howard Bryant to
analyze race and sports. ESPN writer Mechelle Voepel and MinnPost.com’s Pat Borzi chat about
the WNBA. And director Adam Hootnick discusses his documentary about Texas high-school
football, What Carter Lost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of August 21st, 2017. On this week's show, former NFL player Hamza Abdullah and ESPN columnist Howard Bryant will be here to discuss sports after Charlottesville |
| 0:23.0 | and what the tensions say about the continued unemployment of Colin Kaepernick. |
| 0:28.6 | Sports writers Michelle Vopal and Pat Boorsey will join us for a conversation about the best team in sports right now, |
| 0:35.4 | the Minnesota links of the WNBA, who won a game over the weekend by |
| 0:40.2 | 59 points. And finally, we'll talk to Adam Hootnick, the director of what Carter lost, the gripping |
| 0:47.2 | new ESPN 30 for 30 about the 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys, a story of race education and the outsized power of Texas |
| 0:56.8 | high school football. Josh Levine is Slate's editorial director. He is away this week, so there is |
| 1:02.9 | no repartee to be enjoyed in this space, unless I reparteeed with myself, which seems |
| 1:07.9 | kind of silly. So let's plunge right into the show. |
| 1:13.5 | Last week, a group of African-American clergy and educators in Alabama announced a boycott of the NFL. |
| 1:20.1 | They said that as long as quarterback Colin Kaepernick remains unemployed, they will not watch NFL games or buy NFL products and will perform community |
| 1:29.3 | service when they would have been watching on Sundays. |
| 1:32.1 | They encouraged other fans to do the same. |
| 1:34.9 | The group made its plea in a six-minute video that begins with members pulling black |
| 1:39.7 | t-shirts over NFL jerseys. |
| 1:43.3 | Christian Texans, I'm blacking you out. |
| 1:48.1 | The Atlanta Falcons, I am blacking you out. |
| 1:55.8 | Washington, I'm blacking you out. |
| 1:59.9 | Dallas Cowboys, I'm blacking you out. I Cowboys, I'm blacking you out. |
| 2:03.5 | I love that the pastor refuses to say the racist nickname of the Washington team, but the NFL blackout video is much more than sloganeering. |
| 2:11.4 | It is a passionate statement in support of civil rights and a strong rebuke of NFL ownership and business practices. Here's Pastor DeBlair |
| 2:19.3 | Snell of the First Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. The African-American |
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