Why are these people out?

It's because people are coming back to their senses of connected to humanity again.

I think we think about culture and we think about capitalism,

and we think about colonialism, we think about materialism.

These are all the three things that we've been stuck on for a long period of time.

Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we have on NFL All-Pro Michael Bennett. He's also the co-author of a book that I'm very

familiar with called Things That Make White People Uncomfortable, a book that is filled with prophetic

fire that I recommend you check out. Also, I've got some choice words about Maya Moore and her

final victory this week in the freeing of Jonathan Irons.

I also have just stand up and just sit down awards that are all geared around a certain NFL team and the push to change their racist name and more.

But first, let's hear from the man himself, Michael Bennett.

So, first and foremost, like, what was your reaction when you first heard about the murder of George Floyd?

I mean, I think it's, uh, hmm, I mean, I think it's, hmm, I mean, it's overwhelming. I think he's overwhelming.

I think about a human being losing his life and the way that he lost his life and the way that he was trying to reclaim

this community. I think there's a sense of anger and a sense of sadness, connection to all

of it and we're just, I'm just angry at the fact that, you know, we keep losing human life

for something so simple every single day and hear his daughter and hear his family

talking just makes it just really overwhelming and it's a sense of a we feel dark because

there's nothing covering me I don't know it's just a lot of different ideas is go up to your head

like what is what is it that makes people take life so freely?

And I think you feel so sad for his family and you feel like, you know, all he wanted

was talk to his mom, all he wanted was to see his family again and still somebody would

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