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“They made their voice be heard,” Jackson said. “They used their platform. They used their resources.”
Last week, Carson Wentz and Zach Ertz shared their disgust with what happened to Floyd. Jason Kelce and Jake Elliott decided to publicly share their views after Monday’s meeting, too. Kelce specifically mentioned Jackson’s contributions to the discussion.
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“They used everything they could do to reach out and say, ‘Look, I might not know what it feels like to be racial profiled. I might not know what it’s like to grow up in the inner communities in these areas that you guys face on a daily basis where we’re scrutinized for our color of our skin,’” Jackson said. “They might not understand that, but they are stepping up to the plate and saying, ‘Hey, fair is fair and right is right and wrong is wrong, and the stuff that we’ve been seeing is wrong.’”
Jackson also told Clark, “I just think the biggest thing you can do, John, or anyone else of the white culture and race is basically just stand up and make a statement. Make a stance for saying, ‘Hey, I know what’s supposed to be right and I’m gonna stand for what’s supposed to be right.’”
Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie spoke at this meeting as well, and on Tuesday he released a statement through the team, saying he’s “heartbroken and repulsed,” adding “There are no words strong enough to describe the horrific deaths and injustices the black community continues to endure.”
Lurie made a vow.
“The owners are billionaires,” Jackson said. “They have so much influence in the world. They have so much equity. They have so much power to where if they make a stance, other people are gonna — it’s gonna trigger down. It’s gonna trigger down to the lower totem pole.
“A lot of times they go silent because it’s politics or it’s they might lose this sponsor, or they might look crazy in the light, but none of that stuff right now can even come into your mind where that’s possible because we are dealing with people losing their lives.”
As far as the public unrest is concerned, Jackson said, “All this protest and all that stuff is good, but people gotta go get out and vote. Like if we’re not changing these laws and the institution of what’s right and what’s wrong, we gonna never have a change.”
Jackson emphasized that everyone should be treated equally.
“God made everybody equal. You and me, when you bleed, what color do you bleed? You bleed red. I bleed red. No one’s different, and we gotta stop all this, ‘I’m better than you and I’m bigger than you. I have more.' Like, no.”
And for that to happen, he believes, unity is necessary.
“We need real change, and it’s only gonna take one thing, man. And that’s everybody coming together as one.”