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By Matt Hadlik | The Spun
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees now realizes he’d fallen out of touch.
His contemporaries drove that home when they pilloried him this week for repeating a long-held conviction he’d always felt comfortable expressing.
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Brees repeated his opposition to kneeling during the national anthem. And the biting backlash that followed prompted the Saints’ star quarterback to issue a public apology Thursday in which he acknowledged he totally “missed the mark.”
When Brees expressed his position on the anthem three years ago, he was one of many voices in a crowded conversation. But when he repeated it Wednesday, he learned in humbling fashion how times have changed.
The intensity and frequency of protests stemming from Floyd’s killing less than two weeks ago have signified that wider segments of the US population view police brutality and racial injustice as matters of greater urgency.
“I recognize that I should do less talking and more listening,” Brees wrote in the apology posted on social media. “When the black community is talking about their pain, we all need to listen.”...
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