this is not going over very well, as you can imagine, megyn. this town has been beat up. and we ve gone through the gris mill. all people wanted to do was go and celebrate their home football team on a thanksgiving weekend and sort of forget ferguson for three hours. and it came right into our living rooms and right into the stream when the players held up the hands up-don t shoot. they also added insult to injury, kenny brit had on his arm, he had white tape and written with a black magic marker mike brown. right. he said he was asked what was that all about and he said i m not choosing sides. i just support ferguson, which doesn t make any sense because if you support ferguson, there s a whole bunch of i-heart-ferguson signs going around town. so he took a side which made the nfl take a side km made the rams take a side and now you re in a p.r. nightmare. i think they intended to be uniting. did they succeed in any way?
and i was angry. when i first found out about what happened i was angry, frustrated, i was all those thing. i can relate as a black man to how many black people are feeling. i put my thoughts on paper and i realized there s something deeper here. and the deeper issue we all have is because we all have the propensity to do those things, we have the ability to be racist whether you re black or white, we have the ability to lash out at people, and we all have an issue that we need to get taken care of. and that can only be done by the blood of christ. it s funny how when you start writing your thoughts out initially you have an initial reaction and then as you kind of unpack that and go through different layers, you see how you really feel. i thought it was great you said you don t think it was about skin but sin. you just made reference to that there. you also talked about your perspective growing up as a black man, you say i m fearful, among other motions, that though
to come out and show their respects to the protests over the grand jury s decision not to indict that police officer darren wilson in connection with that shooting because they apparently believe there was enough evidence that he did it in self-defense. police say that gesture is inflammatory and they want the players punished. and police, the nfl is refusing to act. host of the mcgraw show in st. louis, mcgraw, good to see you. how is this going down in st. louis? do people believe it was appropriate? this is not going over very well, as you can imagine, megyn. this town has been beat up. and we ve gone through the gris mill. all people wanted to do was go and celebrate their home football team on a thanksgiving weekend and sort of forget ferguson for three hours. and it came right into our living rooms and right into the stream when the players held up the hands up-don t shoot. they also added insult to injury, kenny brit had on his arm, he had white tape and written with a black m
breaking tonight, a meeting ju wrapping up after police object to a protest minutes before an nfl game. five st. louis rams players taking the field last night raising their arms in what s become known as the hands up-don t shoot symbol, a reference to what happened in ferguson, missouri where a police officer was just not indicted after he killed an 18-year-old michael brown. the players saying they wanted to come out and show their respects to the protests over the grand jury s decision not to indict that police officer darren wilson in connection with that shooting because they apparently believe there was enough evidence that he did it in self-defense. police say that gesture is inflammatory and they want the players punished. and police, the nfl is refusing to act. host of the mcgraw show in st. louis, mcgraw, good to see you. how is this going down in st. louis? do people believe it was appropriate?
care of. and that can only be done by the blood of christ. it s funny how when you start writing your thoughts out initially you have an initial reaction and then as you kind of unpack that and go through different layers, you see how you really feel. i thought it was great you said you don t think it was about skin but sin. you just made reference to that there. you also talked about your perspective growing up as a black man, you say i m fearful, among other motions, that though in the back of my mind i m a law-abiding citizen, i could still be looked upon as a threat to those who don t know me, so i have to continue to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt. it s great to see somebody like you giving voice to that as well, somebody not out there looting, who is working and a success and a lover of the lord saying trust me, i m a law-abiding citizen, i m a regular guy, i ve broken some traffic laws and things like that, but take it from me i do