Chris Matthews, Talking Football: ‘I Hate to Talk Ethnically, But I Am Going To Do It’

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MATTHEWS: “That’s the picture I like. I hate talking ethnically, but I am going to do it. The white player who puts his hand here over his chest with his left hand so he can put his other hand on his fellow player.”
ZIRIN: “That’s what is so beautiful about the weekend. It showed an alternative model of solidarity that this president does not represent. He is in front of a crowd in Alabama, calling NFL —“
MATTHEWS: “A white crowd.”
ZIRIN: “Calling them sons of bitches. To say this has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with race. It has to do with venom. It has to do with his lizard brain that looks at his audience that said I know what they’re going the respond to in Huntsville. He wasn’t counting on the brotherhood. He didn’t know it would spread.”