On Wednesday, LeBron James, unprompted, brought up the recently uncovered 1957 photo of Jerry Jones. Two days later, the Cowboys owner responded to the Los...
“When I watched Kyrie talk, and he says, ‘I know who I am, but I want to keep the same energy when we’re talking about my people and the things they’ve been through,’ and that Jerry Jones photo is one of those moments that our people, Black people, have been through in America,” James said.
“But it seems like to me that the whole Jerry Jones situation, the photo, and I know it was years and years ago, and we all make mistakes, I get it. It seems like it’s just been buried under, like, ‘Oh, it happened. OK. We just move on.’ And I was just kind of disappointed that I haven’t received that question from you guys.”“Obviously, we can be more empathetic and give grace to one another,” Prescott said. “I don’t know if I’ve fully processed it all the way, honestly ...
Jones has said his presence that day more than 65 years ago was driven by curiosity, not prejudice or animosity toward the students who were trying to enroll.
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