Jim Brown weighs in on Barack Obama’s victory
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Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown on Wednesday weighed in on Barack Obama’s victory. Brown is chief executive officer of Amer-I-Can Program, a Los Angeles-based organization that teaches life- management skills.
Here is an excerpt from what Brown told JT ‘The Brick’ on Fox Sports Radio’s ‘GameTime ReAct’ show;
Let me say something to white America. This has been the greatest thing for white America, and especially those to the right. They are always talking about hard work, I’m always talking about hard work. We are always talking about not being victims, we are talking about we can overcome. We are saying that a person that does the right thing in America can make it. Well, to every one of those African American young people out there, baby there are no excuses. Let’s get with it, there is no gang banging, you don’t shoot people in your neighborhood, you don’t rob your neighborhood, you don’t go to prison and take pride in it. Straighten up baby, because you have been exposed. This man has exposed every negative in the black community because there is no excuses for us to have gotten away with the sorry way we have treated each other. So now we have to step up and be somebody for ourselves and make those neighborhoods the best neighborhoods in the country, and stop being a damn victim, and do the things for ourselves. Make our mothers and sisters and daughters and wives proud because there is no excuse anymore. It’s in the air, so don’t even come with it.
-- Greg Johnson