“I am excited that people actually care this time. I hate that we’re tearing down our own communities, I hate that we’re tearing down our own stuff. I hate that we are not working to build instead of destroy, but at least they’re listening…
When I got an opportunity to talk this morning, I was told, ‘don’t say this’ or ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘it’s cool to be in this place’ but ‘you can’t be here,’ because we don’t make no rules. We don’t make the rules. And so when you don’t make the rules, you can’t make the change…
What can we do? You gotta vote. You gotta be different. You gotta act different. You gotta treat people differently, you gotta love differently, you gotta teach differently. And when people are mad and have AR-15s at the Capitol in Michigan because they can’t go to salons and because they can’t go to beaches, things that they feel they are entitled to do, there’s no outrage…
You can’t tell us how to grieve, ‘you can be this mad but you can’t be that mad,’ because, you ain’t dying.
So, I do feel better that people are listening; it’s still not better for us. And when you hear, ‘if you don’t like it, go back to your country…’ This is my country.”
–Ryan Clark, on ESPN Television’s “Get Up” program, Tuesday, June 2. Clark is an NFL analyst for ESPN.
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