Saturday’s news conference with Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was a little different from usual.
For starters, there was no practice to discuss. Carroll had given the team the day off. Second, there were no questions. Just 15 minutes of Carroll addressing the camera, discussing a topic that continues to dominate the sports world: racial inequality.
Over the course of his speech, Carroll urged his coaching peers to discuss uncomfortable topics, emphasized the importance of voting and stated that white people don’t understand what Black people have had to go through in American history.