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While fighting to stay on the New England Patriots' roster, looks like quarterback Brian Hoyer has some time to talk about the issues that are gripping the nation currently.
Following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, much of the sports world came to a standstill in protest. New England chose to continue practicing, but did have many discussions on racial issues in America.
Article Continues Below“We talked the other day,” Hoyer said. “To hear those guys speak, I don’t know how anybody can sit there and hear the cries from the Black community and not say, ‘we’re with you.’ And I know we have a unique perspective being football players and interacting with guys of different color, race, religion, whatever it might be on any day. And I always look at how fortunate we are to get to come together as one, see that we all have differences and that’s OK and that we embrace people’s differences. And you look out in our country right now and there’s a lot of division and I think if we can be an example of unity, I’m all for it. So, I fully support them and that movement. I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of not only the Patriots and our great community but the NFL community as well.”
Hoyer made it clear that this issue is bigger than football, but also acknowledged that he was raised to be kind to everyone — which some are not as fortunate to have ingrained into them at a young age.
“Look it’s more important than football,” Hoyer said. “I mean you sit there and you hear (the McCourtys) talk and hear how they have to teach their children if you get pulled over, do this or else you might not come home alive.
My wife always jokes I’m not a very empathetic person but when you sit there and you see a tear running down Devin McCourty’s face, and he’s explaining that that’s what he’s gonna have to tell his kids, I’m thinking to myself how is this even possible?
And I was fortunate enough to be raised to treat everyone the way you want to be treated, and I know that seems so simple but it’s obviously not happening in our country and throughout the world really, so you see that and you realize this is important, and you gotta create time. You gotta sit down and have those conversations, be able to sit in the locker room and talk for 25-30 minutes and say, “Here, I hear you, I’m here for you, what can we do to help?”
Hoyer's message is clear: We need to stop pushing racial injustice and other difficult topics under the rug and focus on getting hatred and bigotry out of people's minds.
