NFL Player Says It Loud and Proud: “I consider myself a Berniecrat.”
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm much more educated on these issues, and I call myself a progressive because I guess you could |
| 0:07.8 | say Bernie crap and depreciating everything Bernie did, even though I didn't know about him in the |
| 0:13.8 | primary, and I would have advocated for him had I known, and that's why I'm trying to advocate |
| 0:18.3 | for him now, because those are the policies, I think, |
| 0:23.2 | work well around the world and would work well here, |
| 0:25.6 | and the only reason they're not being implemented here |
| 0:27.3 | is because of corporate money |
| 0:29.6 | and really the corruption of both parties. |
| 0:32.5 | Thank you. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week, our guest is a running back for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League. His name is Justin Jackson. |
| 0:55.7 | And if you've been following his Twitter feed, you know why I'm talking to him. |
| 0:59.1 | This guy is expressing some politics and giving no bleeps. |
| 1:03.0 | And we're going to talk about why. |
| 1:04.9 | I've also got some choice words about the Australian wildfires |
| 1:08.2 | and whether the sports world will do anything about climate catastrophe. |
| 1:12.4 | And I've got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards. |
| 1:16.1 | And I'm going to read Dwayne Johnson's tribute to his late father, Rocky Johnson, |
| 1:20.2 | an absolute legend in the world of professional wrestling. |
| 1:23.0 | But first, let's go. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm so excited about this. Justin Jackson. |
| 1:36.7 | I'm going to read a couple tweets you wrote right back to you. |
| 1:44.3 | You wrote, we can drone strike a foreign leader from the sky with a death robot all the way in Iraq, |
| 1:46.8 | but we can't get clean water pipes under Flint. |
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