J.Jones SI.com piece on Cam's comments

[TheSpecialJuan]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After maintaining a rather neutral stance on the violence and unrest in the country recently, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton spoke of accountability as a central theme Wednesday.

If he’s held accountable at his job, so should others when the stakes are higher than winning and losing a football game.

“But what if people are dying?” Newton asked at his weekly press conference.

In his most expansive comments on race relations and social justice in his career, the league’s reigning MVP spoke for more than 12 minutes about race in America less than one day after yet another black man was gunned down by police, this time just up the road in Charlotte.

“I’m an African-American. I am not happy how the justice has been kind of dealt with over the years. The state of oppression in our community. But we also, as black people, have to do right by ourselves. We can’t be hypocrites.

“I say that on one voice but also on another voice that when you go public or when things happen in the community, it’s not the fact that things are happening.  It’s the way they’re being treated after they’re happening. When you get a person that does some unjust things or killing an innocent person, killing fathers, killing people who have actual families. That’s real.”

Then Newton continued with the strongest statement I’ve ever heard him say on anything.

“I have a son and a daughter that I’m responsible for. So how would I be if one day they come home and there’s no more daddy?”

[TheSpecialJuan]

1 minute ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After maintaining a rather neutral stance on the violence and unrest in the country recently, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton spoke of accountability as a central theme Wednesday.

If he’s held accountable at his job, so should others when the stakes are higher than winning and losing a football game.

“But what if people are dying?” Newton asked at his weekly press conference.

In his most expansive comments on race relations and social justice in his career, the league’s reigning MVP spoke for more than 12 minutes about race in America less than one day after yet another black man was gunned down by police, this time just up the road in Charlotte.

“I’m an African-American. I am not happy how the justice has been kind of dealt with over the years. The state of oppression in our community. But we also, as black people, have to do right by ourselves. We can’t be hypocrites.

“I say that on one voice but also on another voice that when you go public or when things happen in the community, it’s not the fact that things are happening.  It’s the way they’re being treated after they’re happening. When you get a person that does some unjust things or killing an innocent person, killing fathers, killing people who have actual families. That’s real.”

Then Newton continued with the strongest statement I’ve ever heard him say on anything.

“I have a son and a daughter that I’m responsible for. So how would I be if one day they come home and there’s no more daddy?”

http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/09/21/cam-newton-charlotte-police-killings

[jasonluckydog]

I'm still waiting on my local McDonalds manager to make a statement about the shooting before I can make an informed decision to riot or not. 

[teeray]

I was sad when Jones left the Observer.  Good writer IMO.

[TheSpecialJuan]

46 minutes ago, teeray said:

I was sad when Jones left the Observer.  Good writer IMO.

indeed. now we're left with Joe Person

[SIGCHI222]

“I have a son and a daughter that I’m responsible for. So how would I be if one day they come home and there’s no more daddy?”

 

Cam Newton has a daughter?

[shreddingdefense]

6 minutes ago, SIGCHI222 said:

“I have a son and a daughter that I’m responsible for. So how would I be if one day they come home and there’s no more daddy?”

 

Cam Newton has a daughter?

She is the daughter of Chosen's mother. So Cam has already accepted her as his.

[SIGCHI222]

2 minutes ago, shreddingdefense said:

She is the daughter of Chosen's mother. So Cam has already accepted her as his.

[TheSpecialJuan]

41 minutes ago, SIGCHI222 said:

haha

[TheSpecialJuan]

2 hours ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

indeed. now we're left with Joe Person

[TheSpecialJuan]

[TheSpecialJuan]

[TheSpecialJuan]

[wud35]

2 hours ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Peewee Herman on crack?