Demonize america, write off america, i have too many friends and most ofer them african-american, for members of the police force. the generalizations about the police are really upsetting to me because i know some very good police officers. yes, police officers have made mistakes, but i don t want to generalize about them the wayy i don t white people generalize about black people. i don t want to be seen as the worst of black america and i m sure police officers regardless of color don t want to be seen as the worst of whatever what act an individual police officer hecommits. i have to be honest, i was into that conversation, that was painful, that was hard. ii think it represents the division we have in this country. people are struggling to listen to each other and see the good in each other. i m just really concerned. tucker: i am too.
One thing along this line, if you aren t protesting the flag, you are picking the wrong thing to do it in. if there s something to be done go do it, but don t do it against this country. tucker:on jason, you know all the players, a couple of them are actually smart and well-spoken and have interesting thoughts, i kind of welcome a debate on the stuff, on the details of this stuff, i m not afraid of that. i might agree with some of it actually. why aren t we hearing that? why aren t we hearing players say, here s what i think, you may not agree, but these are my views? because quite honestly, tucker, i believe most ofng the players are beyond to get in a real in-depth discussion about this, again i m a former college football player, i identify as an athlete. i certainly identify as an african-american. i love being an african-american. i don t think these guys are experts in this cause that they are taking up and i think they
Silenced in many ways. controversial speakersmp are being blocked. you have the veto by the heckler, who threatens to protest and disrupt the speech so the college may withdraw the speaker s invitation so they won t be a disturbance.t these kinds of things really threaten the entire educational system in my view, the integrity of it. we have a heritage of free speech. it s in our constitution. it s deeply embedded in our whole approachon to life and we need to push back so we are going to push back. some of these actions can be a violation of civil rights. you have first amendment rights in the country to speak. sometimes those rights can be impacted. the department of justice will take what steps we can to make sure that these zones, these colleges don t create limiting zones for free speech. tucker: i can think of many
To say i think police brutality is something we should discuss. andac protests are ever never convenient! tucker: they are attacking the flag in the country and i m just telling you that when the richest people in a society decide the country they are supposed to be running is corrupt, it falls apart.he that s all i m saying. why won t you acknowledge that? this country is corrupt. you would agree with that. it s an imperfect union and has been even more imperfect for black people and brown people. tucker: does that mean,ul white americat is doing their part in fixing and correcting and working with people of color to make this country better. tucker: oh. i m just wondering, i didn t expect to go down this road, buteca i didn t know you were going to uncork racist sentiments like that on my show. race matters. it always matters. tucker: t i wonder if you feel a little tinge of conscience to make a generalization based on race about an entire group of people you don
Occasions where the government has moved in to curtail free-speech rights under the woodrow wilson administration for example, people sent to prison for protesting the war or whatever.. can you think of other examples of the justice department moving in to ensure free-speech rights? i m not able to remember that, tucker. i just don t remember any situation in which we ve gone to a point where speech is threatened. but i will say this, back in the civil rights days, a lot of areas in the south attempted to silence voices that were against segregation. that was a time that the federal government in many ways spoke and i think spoke on free-speech issues too. it s an important issue. the trends have gone oddly, don t you think? from a time when what we had a universal recognition thats people should be able to express themselves freely and openly to a time where we have to block people from having the voices heard. tucker: what can these private institutions, many or