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🗓️ 13 February 2024
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0:00.0 | Reggie White, who's a defensive end for the Green Bay Packers, says that the fire bombing of his church in Knoxville, Tennessee this week, was the work of racists who may have been trying to hurt him. |
0:10.0 | It's my job to tell sports stories. |
0:12.0 | In only a matter of moments, this quiet East Knoxville neighborhood church was no more. |
0:17.0 | But this is different. |
0:19.0 | Investigators found kerosene, gunpowder, and 18 Molotov cocktails. |
0:22.0 | In 1996, someone burned Reggie's church down to the ground. |
0:26.2 | Church members believe the fire bombing was an attack on their church. |
0:30.1 | I'm Cortland Bragg and I'm a producer at NFL Films. |
0:34.0 | So last year when I was directing the Minister of Defense E-SPN's 3430 about Reggie White |
0:39.0 | and I learned that Reggie's church was burnt down, I was blown away. We didn't know that we had K K K people living across the yard. |
0:48.0 | Our communities have been terrorized and we have to do something about it. |
0:52.0 | There's a deeper story to be told about Reggie's Church and the city of Knoxville. |
0:56.3 | Something deeper than ashes and accusations. |
0:58.8 | I needed the perspective of those who lived and breathed the same air as the church. |
1:02.8 | He actually told me that it was pastor of the church. |
1:07.5 | I never heard that and maybe I didn't hear |
1:09.4 | because I would have not entertained that. |
1:11.8 | Now, this interview is going to be positive, |
1:15.2 | I'm all for doing it. |
1:16.5 | Did we have to have this on, take this part I went off record? |
1:20.2 | We had a motor, local finances. |
1:22.4 | They obviously had an opportunity. |
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