“I hope, hope, hope and pray that you bring the two sides together,” Herschel Walker, a longtime NFL friend of President Trump’s close friend, told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday. after several National Football League teams canceled training on Thursday. athletes across the country are protesting what they see as injustice to black people.
“This president, this administration, he reached out to say, ‘Hey, come meet us, let’s meet, let’s talk about it,’ but no one has decided to do so, so I pray that’s what it is. they’re going to do, ”Herschel, who spoke at the Republican National Convention Monday night in support of President Trump, said Sunday.
On Thursday, the Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers were among the teams that opted out of training in response to Jacob Blake’s police shooting, a 29 year old black man. , in Wisconsin.
In a statement posted on Twitter, the Colts said the team used the day “to discuss and work to make lasting social impact and inspire change in our communities.
Blake’s shooting, which would have left him partially paralyzed, was captured on cellphone video and sparked further protests in the United States three months after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis custody sparked a judgment National Council on Racial Injustice.
According to ESPN, citing sources, the NFL “is planning full social injustice content for Week 1 of the regular season.”
“Among the options discussed by the league and the players’ union, according to a source involved: players reading personalized poems and delivering first-person vignettes based on the experience of social injustice,” ESPN reported. “These stories could be incorporated into the broadcasts that air on match day.”
Host Pete Hegseth brought up the ESPN report and then asked Walker, “What should the NFL do?”
“What the NFL should do is do both sides,” Walker said in response. “I hope it’s not just about supporting the Democratic side because if you want social justice… [you must] bring the two parts together.
He went on to say, “One thing that I have noticed that I continue to decry and that I’m going to scream from the roof is that if you want to make any changes you have to get the Democrats and Republicans to come together. . . ”
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Walker referred to the fact that Sen. Tim Scott, RS.C., said Democrats “didn’t even want to meet” to discuss the Republicans-drafted Senate bill on police reform. Scott led the charge in favor of the bill.
“Then you come back to now, the only time Democrats decided to speak out against violence in the streets [is] when they found out they were starting to lose in the polls, ”Walker said.
“And now the NFL, I hope, I hope, I hope and I pray that you bring the two sides together.”
Host Jedediah Bila pointed to a Joe Biden campaign ad posted last week which she said blamed President Trump for canceling sporting events. She then asked Walker if he thought the president was to blame and if politicians should “play a blame game when it comes to this issue?”
In response, Walker said, “It shouldn’t be a blame game at all because when you start pointing the finger you should point it straight at yourself because one of the first things they have Say is they have systemic racism, well that means that’s a standard meaning … Vice President Biden, you’ve been in office for a long time. What have you done?”
“If you want to start blaming, let’s look at people’s records,” he continued.
Walker then said that what President Trump had “done for African Americans is far better than Biden who has been in power for 47 years.”
“So let’s not blame, we have to come together,” he continued, stressing that blaming the other side is “wrong”.
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“People have to come together and communicate, which they didn’t want to do at all and that’s what’s sad,” Walker said.
Daniel Canova and Fox News’ Associated Press contributed to this report.
