“I know that after being in an NFL locker room for 20 years, no matter the race, the background, the money you grew up with, we were all brothers. It doesn’t matter,” he said, through USA Today. “The boys were very good at it. Will it be the same [if players kneel]? I don’t know. If one guy chooses to defend his cause and another chooses to kneel for his cause, is one right and is the other wrong? Not me. We have a tendency to be constant at the tops.
“I don’t know what it’s like to be black. It’s not for me to say what’s right and what’s wrong. I know we’re all treated equally. If you can’t do that, you won’t be in America. “
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