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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: June 5 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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  Speaker 1: and today is Friday, June five, and it's a different
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  Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Throughout a week of mainly peaceful
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  Speaker 1: protests around Jacksonville, the Jaguars have been meeting and planning,
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  Speaker 1: and they haven't been and talking about football as many
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  Speaker 1: people around the country are. They've been discussing social injustice
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  Speaker 1: and racism and what the path forward could be for
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  Speaker 1: themselves and their community. As a team, the Jaguars decided
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  Speaker 1: to do something immediately, and it's only the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: what's to come. It started with Friday's march from t
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  Speaker 1: I a A bank Field to the Jacksonville Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 1: steps about a mile away, and then back. The players
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  Speaker 1: and coaches and their families led the way, followed by
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  Speaker 1: most of the Jaguars front office and business side, a
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  Speaker 1: total of about two fifty people. When it ends, no
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  Speaker 1: one really knows, but as you'll hear, there's a vow
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  Speaker 1: to keep the momentum going for as long as it tanks.
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  Speaker 1: It could be weeks, it could be months, years, could
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  Speaker 1: be a few elections, or even a generation. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a start, and that's where the Jaguars are at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: We start at t I a A bank Field at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the march, with comments from Director of
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  Speaker 1: player Development Marcus Pollard, wide receiver DJ Chark, kicker Josh Lambeau,
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  Speaker 1: and team Chaplin former offensive line mean Maurice Williams. I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank Coach Maron because all of this sparked
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  Speaker 1: from his vision. Coach UH coach Marone. Dave called Well
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  Speaker 1: and our players. We had a team meeting on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: and the guy said, we need to do something, and
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  Speaker 1: we want to do something now, and so this came
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  Speaker 1: from that conversation. Coach said later for virtual meetings that
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to be having learning football. He thought it
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  Speaker 1: was profound and very uh productive that we do something
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  Speaker 1: and our players have a voice to say how they feel.
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  Speaker 1: And our guys decided this is something that they want
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  Speaker 1: to do right now. And we have some other steps
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to continue to do. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to thank Coach Maron for that vision. Dave called Well
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  Speaker 1: for that vision, for allowing our players to have a platform,
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  Speaker 1: to have this voice to speak their opinions, and to
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  Speaker 1: have so many of them here today is awesome. DJ.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm just happy that we are to be
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  Speaker 1: here together to support something that meets very that's very
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  Speaker 1: dear to me and a lot of people that's out here. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's good to see the community come together.
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  Speaker 1: You know, police brutality and all the racism that's come
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  Speaker 1: up in the past months has that's something that's been
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  Speaker 1: going along forever, you know, so it's great to see
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  Speaker 1: our boys come step out of the shadows and see
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  Speaker 1: y'all support us, and we all can do this together
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  Speaker 1: as a community. So thank you, thank you, m Um,
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  Speaker 1: Hello everybody, thank you for coming out. Um. There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things about these issues going on right
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  Speaker 1: now that I don't understand personally and I never will. UM.
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  Speaker 1: What I do know is there are people that came
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  Speaker 1: before us doing things of this nature that allowed a
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  Speaker 1: peaceful protest like this to occur. When change needs to happen,
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  Speaker 1: there is a system for us to force that change,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the start of it. And I'm here
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  Speaker 1: to support my teammates, all of them, doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: the color is. And I'm here to learn maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about how serious this is. And so
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys for let me be here. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: all for being here, and let's start to affect change.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, josh Mo. Will you definitely, Um, you almost
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  Speaker 1: can feel the weight of the moment this time in history.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, Um, there's been a lot that's been going
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  Speaker 1: on in two thousand and twenty, from the pandemic from
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  Speaker 1: now this and this has been such a loss of
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  Speaker 1: life throughout the world. And this you almost gathered to
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  Speaker 1: this place, You're like, man, like, Lord, what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: Even if you don't know the Lord, You're like, man,
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  Speaker 1: what is going on right now? But I do know
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  Speaker 1: this one thing. No matter how much influence you have,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how much money you have, but we're all
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  Speaker 1: being called to wonder where what is going on? With Gods?
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  Speaker 1: There has to be a higher power that can solve this,
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  Speaker 1: that can bring light to this. Because as much as
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  Speaker 1: advanced as our society is and as much technology as
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  Speaker 1: we have, we've been faced with things we haven't had
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  Speaker 1: the answers to. And so when you are faced with
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  Speaker 1: moments like today, we need to get on our knees
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  Speaker 1: and we need to pray. A man, It's a scripture
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  Speaker 1: I want to read and second Chronicle seven fourteen. It says,
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  Speaker 1: if my people who are called by not my name,
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  Speaker 1: will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
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  Speaker 1: turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
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  Speaker 1: heaven and I will forgive their sin, and I will
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  Speaker 1: heal their land. Let's pray. Father, We just thank you
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  Speaker 1: for just being such a good guy. We thank you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: even as we are in this season, Lord, that you
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  Speaker 1: are Sovereign, that you're watching over us, that you've been
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  Speaker 1: protecting us. And Lord, for those who have lost lives
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  Speaker 1: in this year. Lord, we pray for those families. We
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  Speaker 1: pray for those famili who has lost life in this
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  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, those who have lost lost lives in this
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  Speaker 1: in this pandemic that's gone worldwide. But Lord, we also
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  Speaker 1: pray for those firefighters, Lord, who just lost their lives,
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  Speaker 1: just serving during their active duty. Lord, just trying to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that they can keep us safe. But we
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  Speaker 1: pray for the families. We pray that you will comfort them,
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  Speaker 1: that you're bringing peace to their minds and their hearts
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  Speaker 1: as they process losing yet another life. But Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: pray today the reason why we gather for the injustice
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  Speaker 1: that is going on this country for far too long.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that you unite us. Lord, let us not
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  Speaker 1: just be another moment, and that we move forward and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've done that, but let us be a moment that
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  Speaker 1: is stirred by the fire of God, and we recognize
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  Speaker 1: that we need you, Lord and what you stir in
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  Speaker 1: our hearts to repent and recognize we don't have all
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  Speaker 1: the answers that we are wicked in our ways that
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  Speaker 1: in our own righteousness, Lord, Father God, it is not
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  Speaker 1: good enough. But let us rely on the Lord, our
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  Speaker 1: God Almighty. But we pray for George Floyd's family. We
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  Speaker 1: pray for Brianna Taylor's family. We pray for the many
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  Speaker 1: others who have lost their lives to brutality in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Lord Lord, let it never be again that events like
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  Speaker 1: this happened, where there's lynchings and there's people who are
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  Speaker 1: killed on the TV for us to watch with our
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  Speaker 1: own eyes, and we have to explain to our sons
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  Speaker 1: and our daughters what is going on. Lord. We pray
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  Speaker 1: for change that happened, for change to happen. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: us embrace the beauty of God's creation. Let us embrace
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  Speaker 1: the different colors, Let us embrace the different cultures. Let
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  Speaker 1: us embrace the different people groups that you have put
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  Speaker 1: here on this earth floor. We pray for peace and
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  Speaker 1: our mark today. Lord be with us. Lord, as we
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  Speaker 1: go out as one unit united, recognize that we need change,
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  Speaker 1: lordie not that we pray for wisdom for our political figures.
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  Speaker 1: Step into that system and break up this mess, Lord
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  Speaker 1: from the God, so we can get the truth. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you do allow us to have peace,
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  Speaker 1: and that you help us in these conversations as we
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  Speaker 1: go forward from here forward. Lord, and that we understand
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  Speaker 1: that you are a guy who can bring change. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you are the guy who has brought change. And Lord,
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  Speaker 1: help us to recognize Jesus for who he is. Help
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  Speaker 1: us to recognize ada On Knife for who he is.
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  Speaker 1: To help us to recognize God, help us to recognize
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  Speaker 1: that you are the power that we need in the season. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So we thank you, and we pray for our safety
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  Speaker 1: as we travel to and from this event today. And Lord,
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  Speaker 1: bring us together, bring us to a place whe where
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  Speaker 1: we are able to now move forward in unity. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we're praying for. And in this in
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  Speaker 1: Christ name, I pray Amen from t I A bank Field.
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  Speaker 1: The group marched down Duvall Street, turn left on A.
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  Speaker 1: Philip Randolph between the arena and the baseball grounds, and
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  Speaker 1: then right on Bay Street by Intuition and Maxwell House,
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  Speaker 1: before arriving at the steps of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. There,
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  Speaker 1: former Jaguars tied End and now officer Ernest Wilford spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the group assembled, followed by Jaguars running backs coach
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  Speaker 1: Terry Robiski and wide receiver Chris Conway. Good up, Mr Ernest,
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  Speaker 1: thanks jump um. I'm not gonna say a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: at this moment in time. I just wanted you guys
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  Speaker 1: to know that you guys voice it's heart and I
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  Speaker 1: would use my platform and everything in my will being
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that your message is transpired in our office.
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  Speaker 1: Um at the moment, at this moment time, if you
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  Speaker 1: believe in a cause here today, I will request you
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  Speaker 1: guys to take a knee for one minute, and now
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  Speaker 1: we will have a few words by first terryal Bhisky,
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  Speaker 1: followed by Mr Chris Connolly. I guess that's the veteran,
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  Speaker 1: the veteran on the staff, the old guy get to
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  Speaker 1: do with it. But just to touch a little bit
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  Speaker 1: on what Marcus talked about. When Marcus spoke earlier, he
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  Speaker 1: spoke about his his grandmother. Say, his grandmother was in
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  Speaker 1: the march and she got spent on a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I was in that march with her.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing this for so long, uh, I was
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  Speaker 1: in my first march. I think back in the eighteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven, nineties, six gig the first time we had
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  Speaker 1: to march, and I've been through about three or four
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  Speaker 1: NFL strike since then. I've had a bunch of marches
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  Speaker 1: since then. A little bit of what Josh was speaking
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  Speaker 1: on is as Americans, I think march is the way
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  Speaker 1: we have to let our voice be heard. And all
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  Speaker 1: those places I've been, this is my I think my
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  Speaker 1: eight NFL team I've been with, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing for me. We're sitting on the sitting in
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  Speaker 1: a meeting on Tuesday, and they hear the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the organization step up and say
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna say something. I think as we all travel
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  Speaker 1: through life, we see we see actors, We see actresses,
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  Speaker 1: we see athletes, We see people all the time as
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  Speaker 1: an individual making statement. We see uh, some big name
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  Speaker 1: actors step out front and get arrested for what they
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  Speaker 1: believe in because they want to make a statement. We
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  Speaker 1: see Lebron James say things. We see Florid mill Weather
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  Speaker 1: to say things. This is the first time I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you, guys, in my lifetime, I felt doganization an
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  Speaker 1: organization said something to have a head coach to step
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  Speaker 1: up with his family to have a general manager to
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  Speaker 1: speak to all the players, black and white and said,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make a statement. I have never in my
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  Speaker 1: forty five years in the NFL, I've never seen it.
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  Speaker 1: And then I have the owner to come out and
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  Speaker 1: release the article he released and the racism that he
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  Speaker 1: felt and he still feels today was unbelievable to the
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  Speaker 1: city of Jacksonville. I'm gonna say, we're here today as
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  Speaker 1: this group, all of Jacksonville be out. You have something
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  Speaker 1: I promised to be brought of. Everybody walking out here
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  Speaker 1: today have a shirt on and they said black lives matter,
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  Speaker 1: and it does. I swear to God, I'm black. My
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  Speaker 1: kids are black. I'll tell Josh, Josh, you may not
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  Speaker 1: see the results from this, but your grandkids will, your
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  Speaker 1: kids will, their kids will. We're watching today because a
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  Speaker 1: black man got killed and it started with that. And
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  Speaker 1: I know these t shirts read black lives matter. Life
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  Speaker 1: is all we got. Every life matter. I think Jodine
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  Speaker 1: know me well enough to know if he was in
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  Speaker 1: the building and he was burning down, I'd go get him.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Wash don't know his life matters to me. I
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  Speaker 1: worry with him every day. When that Moncacly rise Joe Dana.
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  Speaker 1: I love the people. I love guys. Y'all we got
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  Speaker 1: is each other, stay together, stick together, stand for what
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  Speaker 1: you believe in, and f the rest of it. Chris Connley,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm gonna try to keep this um as
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  Speaker 1: short as I can. There's a wealth of a welling
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  Speaker 1: up of emotions that has swept over me the past week.
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  Speaker 1: UM and uh, I'm just gonna do my best to
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  Speaker 1: keep things short. But I had to write it down
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't want to get up here and just
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  Speaker 1: just have all that emotion overflow. UM. But watching watching
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  Speaker 1: the events that have happened with mod Aubrey, and starting
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  Speaker 1: with the mod Aubrey the video when it got released,
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  Speaker 1: I sat in my house upstairs, in my office and
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  Speaker 1: I just began to cry be because I saw someone
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  Speaker 1: who looked like me, someone who looked like my brother,
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  Speaker 1: someone who looked like my friends, get shot down and
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  Speaker 1: fall on the street like an animal. And that hurt
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  Speaker 1: me because I've seen it time and time again. And
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  Speaker 1: so I forgive me if I'm long winded, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get through this. The events of the last few
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  Speaker 1: months have culminated and shook the nation for many opening
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  Speaker 1: their eyes to something the marginalized have pointed out the
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  Speaker 1: whole time. What I and others know is that these
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  Speaker 1: atrocities have been foreshadowed. They have been allowed to manifest
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  Speaker 1: because of years of systemic indoctrination and oppression. I urge
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  Speaker 1: you today, brothers and sisters, to know this history, study it,
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  Speaker 1: seek it, because through it, though it may make you uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: it will lead towards change. George Santayana said those who
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  Speaker 1: can not remember the past or doomed to repeat it
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  Speaker 1: and the revend. Dr Martin Luther King said that we
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  Speaker 1: are not makers a history, were made by it. We
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  Speaker 1: can not allow comfortability of revisionist history to disarm our
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  Speaker 1: minds and weaken our convictions. A Confederate monument sits a
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  Speaker 1: couple of blocks from here, praising the South dark past.
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  Speaker 1: Our revision is history would tell us that it's there
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  Speaker 1: to honor men fighting for states rights. But true history
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  Speaker 1: would tell us that. In the cornerstone addressed Alexander Stephens
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  Speaker 1: said that our states are built on the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the negro is inferior, and slavery and subordination is his
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  Speaker 1: normal and natural state. That's true history. This monument sits
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  Speaker 1: a block from where the acts handle Saturday happened in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: a block from it. Reminding people in this city of
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  Speaker 1: what's happened to them. True history would remind people that
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  Speaker 1: not only Confederate sympathy eisers butchered black people in the streets,
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  Speaker 1: but police joined in too. Revisionist history is what allows
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  Speaker 1: us to believe that systemic racism isn't real, or that
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  Speaker 1: racism isn't of itself, is only isolated incidents, not instilled
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  Speaker 1: by government back segregation, not instilled by a history of
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  Speaker 1: bias and policing. Revisionist history is what allows people to say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: these things happen, but that was the past. Can't we
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  Speaker 1: just move on? Richard Ross said, let bygones be bygones
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  Speaker 1: isn't a legitimate wish if we wish to call ourselves
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  Speaker 1: a constitutional democracy. Protests like this one and peaceful protests
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  Speaker 1: across the country are fighting for our constitution. They're fighting
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  Speaker 1: for our democracy. So I plead that everyone out there
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  Speaker 1: would get out and they would demonstrate they would do
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  Speaker 1: it peacefully. And to those people who are trying to
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  Speaker 1: detract from this movement, who are trying to add on
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  Speaker 1: and instill hate and riots. We won't let you hijack
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  Speaker 1: this moment. We won't let you do it. Fighting for inequality,
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  Speaker 1: Fighting inequality that allows longer sentences on average for African
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  Speaker 1: American men, Fighting inequality that allows black adolescence to be
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  Speaker 1: eighteen times more likely to be charged as adults. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: look around at the kids here, man, A Black adolescent
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  Speaker 1: is eighteen times more likely to be charged and convicted
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  Speaker 1: as an adult. That's what we're fighting today. We're fighting
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  Speaker 1: in equality that would allow this league to marginalize and
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  Speaker 1: to leave players in two thousand sixteen, when they stood
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  Speaker 1: up and said that there was a problem. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're here to fight today. That's what you're all here for. Today.
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  Speaker 1: Today we say no more. Today we see a name
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  Speaker 1: that can't await change, the city that won't sit still
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  Speaker 1: or be quiet. Today, I'm surrounded by brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: of every color who rallied together to echo the cries
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  Speaker 1: of George Floyd, to echo the cries of Brianna Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: to echo the cries of a Mod Aubrey and the
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  Speaker 1: countless others like them. Today we're encouraged today, we're emboldened. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we know that that change will come. Today. I'm surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by you, and I pray for you that you would
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  Speaker 1: abound in love and knowledge and deep insight. Like Philippians
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  Speaker 1: one nine says, this is a marathon and not a sprint.
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  Speaker 1: Every woman and child and man can sustain this for
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  Speaker 1: more than just a moment and make sure that this
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  Speaker 1: is a movement right now. I challenge all of you
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  Speaker 1: to learn this history, to learn our country's true history,
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  Speaker 1: not so that it makes you comfortable, but so that
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  Speaker 1: you can be empowered to go out and make true change,
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  Speaker 1: So that you can go out and, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: you can beat him at the ballot, so that you
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  Speaker 1: can weaponize the voters in this city to get people
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  Speaker 1: who will truly represent each and every one of us.
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  Speaker 1: Voters can do this right now. Movements like this can
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  Speaker 1: do this right now. I want to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say thank you to my black brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters who are out here. I want to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you to my white brothers and sisters who are
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  Speaker 1: out here. I want to say thank you to every
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  Speaker 1: single child who is out here, younger person who is
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  Speaker 1: out here. Because you're seeing an example of what the
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  Speaker 1: future can be. You're seeing an example of a future
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  Speaker 1: that's fighting for you. For you right now, I'm fighting
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  Speaker 1: for you. When I saw that video, I saw you.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you, I saw you. Thank you to all
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  Speaker 1: of you. This is only the beginning. Don't let people
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  Speaker 1: roll you up. Don't let people tell you that you're
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  Speaker 1: not worth it. When they say black lives matter, there
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  Speaker 1: same black lives matter because they're hurt. Right now, we're
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  Speaker 1: not saying the matter more and everyone here, I hope
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  Speaker 1: everyone here knows that. But let's show it. This is
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  Speaker 1: only the beginning here in Jacksonville. Let's make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we maintain this momentum so it's not a movement, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a movement. Thank you from J s O.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd then marched the same route back to t
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  Speaker 1: I A a bank field and finished the rally with
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  Speaker 1: a message of unity from head coach Doug Barron. I
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  Speaker 1: also want to thank the officers that helped and assist
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  Speaker 1: at us today, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and making it
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  Speaker 1: a safe walk for all of us. I also want
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  Speaker 1: to point out, you know, for the people that joined us. Now.
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  Speaker 1: As I was walking back, gentleman comes up to me
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't recognize him. I didn't know where he's from,
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  Speaker 1: but he said he was able to see it on TV.
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  Speaker 1: He felt that it was important to him. He asked
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  Speaker 1: me from my shirt because he wanted to be part
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  Speaker 1: of it. And the whip is around here, somewhere right here,
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  Speaker 1: so he's part of it. And gave him my shirt.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that shows how important it is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just during this week, we've had a lot of discussions,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as far as with our football team and
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  Speaker 1: team meetings, you know, with players and coaches. You know,
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  Speaker 1: these meetings weren't about football. You know, this was something
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  Speaker 1: much bigger, you know, the problem that we have going around,
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  Speaker 1: the problem we're dealing with, the social injustice to the
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  Speaker 1: black people in this country and face and what we
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  Speaker 1: can do to help. The one thing I realized early
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  Speaker 1: with my goal in these meetings, you know, has been
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  Speaker 1: to learn, listen, and to get a better understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the events that are happening. I told the players, as
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  Speaker 1: a white male in this country, I will never understand
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to be black, or in a racial
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  Speaker 1: or raise black children. But I will push myself every
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  Speaker 1: day to learn and to become more well informed. And
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  Speaker 1: I thank the players for helping me watching the murder
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  Speaker 1: of Mr Floyd create a lot of anger, frustration, and sadness.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night, I was able to take part in a
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  Speaker 1: demonstration in San Marco, but it also gave my wife, Helen,
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  Speaker 1: and I an opportunity to sit down with our children
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  Speaker 1: and talk to them and discuss it. And they felt
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  Speaker 1: strongly enough to go out and express themselves during that demonstration,
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't be more proud of them as a parent.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And I was happy to see the Jacks to build
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  Speaker 1: community and adversity with over three thousand people strong in it.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot left to do. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on right now, and I think Chris said it best.
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  Speaker 1: You'll hear things like this is a moment, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that I've heard message you like that before where
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  Speaker 1: we have to seize the moment. But this is a movement.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that we are working on as a
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  Speaker 1: team with our players to make sure that we can sustain.
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  Speaker 1: We understand that during the season there will be a
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  Speaker 1: focus on football. We understand that we will be tired,
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  Speaker 1: our bodies will be beat up, but we also realize
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  Speaker 1: and recognize the importance of making sure that we can
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  Speaker 1: sustain our message as a whole. Now, we're not looking
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  Speaker 1: anywhere else from except from within and when we talk
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  Speaker 1: about to the people here, whether it's our front office,
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  Speaker 1: up top, our owners. Shot Com has given us a
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  Speaker 1: great platform that we can all be heard. We need
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. I've talked to this building
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  Speaker 1: many times. You know, there's a lot of separation that
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  Speaker 1: goes on even within these walls that we need to
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  Speaker 1: come together. We need to have the same ideas. We
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  Speaker 1: need to throw things out there, we need to understand
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  Speaker 1: each other, and we need to have a voice that
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  Speaker 1: will make sustainable, dramatic change. I appreciate everyone being here today.
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  Speaker 1: Chris said it best. Okay, this is this is a marathon,
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  Speaker 1: not a sprint. We've got to keep fighting. We can't
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  Speaker 1: let people distract us, take us away, different ideas, different opinions.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to maintain our focus and stay on course.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot that we are working on that we
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  Speaker 1: feel that we can make a difference. Those will become
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  Speaker 1: an out in our conversations with the players first, the coaches, obviously,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: with ownership and the rest of our organization. I can't
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: tell you what this means to me again, I say
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  Speaker 1: it again. If you are a white person, I challenge
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  Speaker 1: you please, if you think you understand, take a step back, listen, learn,
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  Speaker 1: Let's not make the same mistakes we've made. We need
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  Speaker 1: to stand together, white and black to make this a
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  Speaker 1: movement work again. I appreciate everyone's time, Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: coming out. This is only the beginning. We have a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: long fight. That fight may last after the season, beyond
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: years to our next generations. But we as competitors, no,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: we have to take the competitiveness that we have as players,
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  Speaker 1: the competitiveness that I've seen in these great young men
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  Speaker 1: that we have, both black and white, and we need
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  Speaker 1: to take that competitiveness and put it into one and
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  Speaker 1: of all the things that we need to do, that's
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  Speaker 1: the damn battle we need to win, the battle against racism.
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