The Forgotten History of NFL Integration, With Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber to talk about their new book, 'The Forgotten First,' about the first Black players in the NFL. They talk about why the racial integration of the NFL is not well known (1:49) and what they learned from writing the book (13:15) before getting into this current NFL season (16:11). Host: Bakari Sellers Guests: Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:15.3	Today we'll be interviewing two individuals.
0:17.0	Kishon Johnson, throw me the damn ball.
0:19.6	Love Key man.
0:21.0	Outspoken wire receiver, former USC Trojan, and Bob Glauber.
0:27.0	But before we get to our guest, I wanted to talk about this drone strike in Afghanistan
0:30.5	back in August as we were drawing that killed 10 Afghani civilians.
0:35.2	The Pentagon has recently acknowledged that the drone strike was a mistake.
0:38.2	I mean, understatement.
0:40.0	First, I don't think I can recall an administration
0:42.8	ever admitting that they got a drone strike wrong,
0:45.8	but I'm not, I'm sure it's not the first time
0:47.9	that this has happened.
0:48.6	I know President Biden has taken a lot of shots
0:51.2	about how he withdrew from Afghanistan and some of it was deserved.
0:54.0	But this drone strike is yet another example to me of at least when we got the policy right in ending the war,
1:00.0	even if the withdrawal itself was more chaotic than it should have been.
1:05.0	When you get out of the nation-building business like I hope we are,
1:09.0	hopefully the drone strike should end too.
1:11.0	And with less drone strikes, there's less opportunity for this type of
1:14.4	tragic error. Now there has to be accountability, people need to be fired, generals need to be
1:18.0	gone. But I think Americans should be particularly concerned about these strikes as they are very rarely
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