John Carlos: “Follow Kaepernick to the Rainbow”
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. |
| 0:04.0 | Today on the show, we are face-to-face in studio with sports and politics legend, 1968 |
| 0:10.2 | Olympian Dr. John Carlos. |
| 0:16.2 | Colin Kaepernick is a gifted individual. You know, I mean, he sees something wrong. His |
| 0:19.8 | idea is a young man, and he chose to sacrifice |
| 0:22.1 | himself to make a statement for all people. |
| 0:24.8 | His thing is about dealing with America straight on, as I did 48 years ago, to tell |
| 0:29.2 | him that something is wrong within the system. |
| 0:31.5 | There's a lesson to be learned amongst my kids and their kids, believe in what you believe |
| 0:36.3 | in, and stand for what you believe in. |
| 0:38.4 | And don't let anyone intimidate you to try and deter you from being who you should be in life. |
| 0:44.0 | So Mr. Kavanaugh, by him being a millionaire professional athlete, he's making a statement |
| 0:49.5 | that is not about your independent wealth. |
| 0:51.6 | It's about the well-being of all the people that you left |
| 0:54.4 | in your environment to come to this wealth that you have today. Follow Kaepernick to the rainbow. |
| 1:02.1 | I also have some choice words for Iron Mike Ditka. I have some words as well about some listener |
| 1:08.0 | concerns about the interview we did last week with Bob Costas. |
| 1:11.1 | We also have the Just Stand Up Award. |
| 1:12.9 | We've got some calls to the hotline. |
| 1:14.8 | So we got a full show. |
| 1:16.3 | Let's hit it. |
| 1:17.3 | Dr. John Carlos, how you doing, sir? |
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