How you doing? It is the L.E.F. K.O.E. Man. Welcome into another episode of The Left Go Show.

It's going to be quite quick. I'm hoping that it's filled with hope. I'm hoping that it gives you guys some strength. I'm hoping that it can bring us together.

But it also has a lot of honest thought.

All last week I was off and I hope you guys amidst all the craziness, we're able to find some moments of joy.

I had a hard time. I know that a lot of you guys saw a video that I put out where I talked about a lot about my stance about inaction and action, especially with white people right now after the death of George Floyd.

But I really want to talk to you guys for a few reasons by myself.

Number one, I think that there are a lot of examples out there of really strong black voices sharing stories that are hitting us in emotional places.

If you haven't seen Nate Burleson's story, I implore you to check it out. If you haven't seen people like Shannon Sharp really share their story.

I implore you to check it out. But I think it's so important right now for people that are white to stand up and share their stories because it's not just black people's problem.

In fact, they're exhausted. And I think right now it's really up to a lot of us to do a lot of the work.

I think a lot of this is hitting me because I mean, if you guys have been listening to the podcast lately, all I've talked about is using this isolation, using the fact that we're stuck in our homes to really figure out who you are.

And in that time when something like this happens with George Floyd, Maude Aubrey and Brianna Taylor and countless others, it just kind of makes me in this time where I'm doing all this self reflection and doing all the starving into myself.

I can't ignore certain things because if I do that, I'm lying to myself.

In my talk, the one thing that I wish I did do was be more accountable for my own actions.

I went back and I thought about all the years of Simons and Lufko and I'm going to be very honest.

Every time that I refer to a black athlete as a beast, every time that I refer to as a black athlete as a freak, I'm hurting black people because all I'm doing is pushing these narratives.

I will admit that, man, I've been at Bleacher Port now for six years, six and a half. And I love this company.

But I will admit as this company has grown very rapidly, especially as of late, because I've been working a lot and that's not a great excuse.

I've put my face down, my head down, and I have been paying attention to a company that talks about bridging the gap between sports and culture and what I know what they're saying is black culture.

And I don't know if I've been as supportive as I should have been for black voices in this organization.

And when I tell you that I am working with people right now, Bleacher Report, and I am here not to take their message and make it my own, but to amplify it, I'm telling you I'm doing the work.

I am in meetings, I am really, really, really putting in the time that I should have put in early. And for that, I'm sorry.

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