Saints safety and social activist Malcolm Jenkins delivered an emotional rebuke to his teammate's comments on protest.
Backlash against Drew Brees has been wide, swift and pointed after he weighed in on NFL player protests.
Highlight: @readdanwrite asks @drewbrees what the star NFL quarterback thinks about"players kneeling again when the NFL season starts."@drewbrees: “I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.”— Yahoo Finance June 3, 2020 “I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country,” Brees said in an interview with Daniel Roberts.
Malcolm Jenkins’ responseNobody was quite as blunt as Jenkins, who posted a video telling Brees to “shut the f--- up” on Instagram. The founding member of the Players Coalition and vocal black rights advocate has frequently pushed back against the faulty narrative that Colin Kaepernick’s protest targeted patriotism and the military instead police brutality and social injustice.
Jenkins deletes, posts new videoJenkins initially posted the video on Instagram before deleting it. He then posted another video within the hour where he again called Brees “a part of the problem.” “Drew Brees. If you don’t understand how hurtful, how insensitive your comments are, you are part of the problem,” Jenkins said.
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