© Brett Davis | 2018 Nov 23
Former Warrior Stephen Jackson apparently doesn’t think Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson should have apologized for an anti-semitic post that quoted Adolf Hitler on Tuesday. In fact, Jackson feels the wide receiver was speaking the truth.
“So I just read a statement that the Philadelphia Eagles posted regarding DeSean Jackson’s comments,” Jackson said in a video posted to his Instagram account. “He was trying to educate himself, educate people, and he’s speaking the truth. Right? He’s speaking the truth. You know he don’t hate nobody, but he’s speaking the truth of the facts that he knows and trying to educate others.”
“But y’all don’t want us to educate ourselves. If it’s talking about the Black race, y’all ain’t saying nothing about it. They killing us, police killing us and treating us like s—, racism at an all-time high, but ain’t none of you NFL owners spoke up on that, ain’t none of you teams spoke up on that. But the same team had a receiver [Riley Cooper] who said the word n—– publicly! They gave him an extension! I play for the Big3. We have a Jewish owner. He understands where we stand and some of the things we say, but it’s not directed to him. It’s the way we’ve been treated.”
DeSean Jackson’s original post attempted to quote Hitler, a misquote it turns out, with the message that Jewish people “will blackmail America. [They] will extort America, their plan for world domination won’t work if the Negroes know who they were.” He also expressed admiration in multiple posts for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whom the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have identified as anti-Semitic.
DeSean Jackson issued multiple apologies on Tuesday, first via an Instagram video, and then through a statement on Twitter.
Stephen Jackson has since deleted his original Instagram video, but doesn’t seem keen on apologizing based on a post late Tuesday night.
Stephen Jackson has recently been a prominent voice for social activism following the death of his friend George Floyd in Minneapolis.