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HOST: It is our pleasure to have as our guest today True Breeze, one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. True found himself in the eye of the storm regarding the kneeling controversy, but he’s changed his mind and wants to go on record stating that he himself will be taking a knee come his first game of the season. True, what made you change your mind?
BREEZE: Well, I had initially thought that kneeling was being disrespectful to our country, especially to those who gave their lives to keep our country free. But a number of players who kneel say they have family in the armed forces and respect them very much for their service to our country. Kneeling wasn’t being done to disrespect our country but to bring attention to the problems in our country.
HOST: So are you kneeling to show your solidarity with Black Lives Matter?
BREEZE: Actually I’m not. Now that doesn’t mean that I don’t believe that black lives matter. It’s just that I have a problem with BLM’s agenda.
HOST: Their agenda. And just what might that agenda be?
BREEZE: The agenda is that the only black lives that matter are the ones that promote victimism. And some of the people they hold up as martyrs—most notably Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown—justifiably got what they had coming to them.
HOST: Okay, so what do you mean by victimism?
BREEZE: I’ll give you an example. After that video surfaced of Ahmaud Arbery being shot, LeBron James tweeted, “We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! Can’t even go for a damn jog, man!”
HOST: Yeah, I read that tweet.
BREEZE: Now do any of these names ring a bell—Christopher Lane, Nathan Trapuzzano, Dave Stevens, Karina Vetrano, Wendy Martinez?
HOST: I’m afraid I don’t recognize any of them.
BREEZE: They’re all white people killed by black people while they were out jogging. Nathan and Christopher were shot. Karina was raped and strangled. Wendy was stabbed in the neck and bled to death. Dave was hacked to death with a machete.
HOST: That’s awful!
BREEZE: More than twice as many white people are killed by black people every year than black people killed by white people, and the black population is only a fraction of the white population. Some guy analyzed the numbers and found that white people are being murdered at eight times the rate they should be by black people.
You’ve seen black demonstrators waving placards around that say, “Stop Killing Us!”? Well, if anyone has a right to be waving that placard around, it’s white people. So anyway, the chances of a white person being killed by a black person while jogging are much, much, much greater than the other way around.
But if you mix equal parts of ignorance and emotionalism and stir them up in LeBron’s little brain, you get this false narrative, this alternate reality in which black people can’t set foot outside their home without being killed by white people. That’s what I mean by victimism.
HOST: I see.
BREEZE: And another thing. When Christopher, Nathan, Dave, Karina, and Wendy were killed, no white celebrity spouted off in a tweet the way LeBron did. No one said anything about not being able to go out for a jog without getting killed by a black person. It would have been considered racist. But LeBron’s allowed to get away with that without being called out on it.
HOST: Sounds like you just did call him out on it. Okay, so you’re critical of BLM and think they have a victimist agenda. You don’t see Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown as victims. You mentioned Ahmaud Arbery. And on the heels of that incident, we saw the death in custody of George Floyd. How do you feel about them?
BREEZE: Arbery was the victim of a very misguided and illegal attempt at a citizen’s arrest. But I honestly believe he’d still be alive if he hadn’t tried to rush a man who was holding a shotgun. And George Floyd—that video was one of the most gut-wrenching things I’ve ever seen. Poor guy was definitely a victim of police brutality.
HOST: So are you kneeling for George Floyd and others like him who are undisputably victims of police brutality?
BREEZE: Well, I really don’t need to kneel for them because they’re already getting more than enough attention.
HOST: Okay, so just exactly who are you kneeling for?