Dabo Swinney made some very insensitive remarks about Colin Kaepernick while painting a rosy picture of society that doesn’t exist.
Here are the highlights.
“I think we have a sin problem in the world,” said Dabo Swinney. “That’s what I think. It’s so easy to say, well, we have a race problem. It’s so easy. No, we got a sin problem. That’s just my opinion. That’s Dabo’s opinion.”
“Nobody’s really asked me about Kaepernick or whatever. You know, I totally disagree with that. You know, not his protest, but I just think there’s a right way to do things, and I don’t think two wrongs make a right. Never have, and never will.
“I think the answer to our problems is exactly what they were for Martin Luther King when he changed the world. Love, peace, education, tolerance of others, Jesus,” Swinney said. “A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term African-American president. And this is a terrible country? There are interracial marriages. I go to a church that’s an interracial church. Those were only dreams for Martin Luther King. Black head coaches. Black quarterbacks. Quarterbacks at places like Georgia and Alabama and Clemson. For Martin Luther King, that was just a dream. Black CEOs, NBA owners, you name it. Unbelievable.
Dabo didn’t apologize for the comments, instead he just apologized for being a distraction to his team, because in the end the only thing that matters is football right?
“He apologized for being a team distraction, since he’s always preaching about (not being a distraction),” redshirt junior linebacker Dorian O’Daniel said Tuesday. “A lot of guys appreciated the apology, even though we weren’t looking for it.”
We will be on the look out for Dabo’s thoughts on Terence Crutcher being murdered by the police.