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- Hey, what's up everybody?

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My name is Jemele Hill,
author of the memoir Uphill,

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and today I'm speaking with Deadspin.

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We're pretty deep into Colin's documentary

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and I think people are going to be,

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this is gonna be one of those stories,

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as I knew it would be,

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given all the vitriol that he faced

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and that it cost him his career.

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When people see this documentary

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they're going to feel
ashamed of how they behaved

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the fact that he lost his career

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because he spoke out against injustice.

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And you've seen other
players who have done things

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that are terrible either be welcome back

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or given opportunity after opportunity.

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And so for him to have lost his career

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just because he thinks injustice is wrong,

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that is something that the
NFL will never get over.

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And considering the
charity work that he's done

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and how he's tried to
empower other black people,

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it's just it's not what he deserve.

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And yet I think his influence, his power,

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will carry on for decades.

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They'll carry on throughout history.

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I mean, he's in the history books now.

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You dedicate this much of your life

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to trying to be the very
best at what you do,

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and to get to a place that
very few people get to

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and to have that all taken
away, not because of injury

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not because he couldn't
play, in terms of compete

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as a quarterback in his position could,

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but simply because you chose
to speak out against injustice.

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Thanks for watching,
and please buy the book.

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Sister trying to be on the New
York Times bestseller list.

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So buy it.