i m talking about the players. and unfortunately that s where we re the most quiet and we need to speak up right now. there s a lot of issues we re facing as a people and you re 100% right. you want to really make some change and effectuate change. when you have a disgusting person like roy moore who is allowed to run for congress, you know, and i ll say this. anybody who sat back and watched that sean hannity interview, a lot of people probably haven t, go back and watch the sean hannity interview and you will hear how disgusting this man is. it should have sent the entire state of alabama in an uproar, particularly the athletes. and i hope they re listening to this, because we do have real issues and there s times that our voices can really be heard. that s at the ballot box. we ve got to start voting. and, you know, we can continue to hoop and holler whenever things happen to black men in our country, but unless we re willing to get involved in a political system and start
about so often out of the days of the 50s and 60s, and for this man to stand there, who has in these times talked about fine people on the other side that marched with torches talking about jews and that led to a death, it is just the worst of situations in our realtime of now. but i thank you, bobby moak, i thank you, judith, for being with me this morning. reverend sharpton, thank you so much. but yes, his statements of candidate moore are even unconscionable to be spoken. we ll talk about that up next, moving from mississippi to alabama where a heated senate race is getting national attention. my thoughts and what s happening on the ground 48 hours before the election. we ll be right back. copd makes it hard to breathe.
against moore, democratic nominee doug jones, the strategy for jones, to get voters out in droves from predominantly black areas. but are they planning to show up? joining me now is nbc s alex seitz-wald, who just came back from alabama. alex, i am talking to people i ve known on the ground for a couple of decades. my father s famili mother s f is from alabama. i m not high in the enthusiasm level in black counties in alabama. what s going on down there? you hear a lot of that and a lot of concerns among democrats that african-americans are not aware or excited about this race as much as they would want them to be. this is the key demographic group for democrats in alabama. they really need super high turnout from african-americans. there s a couple of things that are not working as well as they
nfl s mission accomplished. that s exactly right. what about the mission of those that were in the forefront and involved in the movement that kaepernick and others came and highlighted. they didn t start that movement. this movement has been going on for a long time. they highlighted that movement. how does then the nfl owners and the players association become the solvers of something they weren t even involved in? it s almost a sort of complicity. the thing is, what this whole thing is, activism is important. you talked about roy moore. trust me, if the university of alabama football players, which is the most important entity in that state, predominantly black players, if those guys were suddenly to come out and tell the voters to register and to go against roy moore, trust me, that thing would turn on a dime. jack, i hear you saying yes, because when you get in states like alabama, they have more political influence than most.
has their interest at heart or might be more enthusiasm for it. but because the big question is turnout, this is going to be a low turnout race, 13 days before christmas, they really need supercharged turnout among african-americans and that s why the enthusiasm piece really matters. now, when you look at what s at stake, and i don t know that a lot of this has been communicated on the ground in alabama, i m getting varying reports on it. when you look, though, at what is at stake, if roy moore is the senator, it preserves the slight edge in the senate majority of the republican party, which deals with the tax plan, which deals with rolling back the affordable care act, known as obamacare, which confirms federal judges, when you see what s at stake in terms of what the senate will do and that one vote which will keep them with a razor-thin majority or that one vote that could go the other way