![]() Now, he said, “globalists” looking to profit in China and other countries run the league. Owens said it’s not the NFL he grew up with, when people like Raiders owner Al Davis and commissioner Pete Rozelle loved America and built the league around it. Some “good-hearted” young men want to show their courage and do the right thing by kneeling during the national anthem before games, but they are standing against the flag, he said. ![]() Owens said he wrote his latest book, “Why I Stand: From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism,” because of what he has seen in the NFL the past three years, which he said should be a “wake-up call for all of us.” He travels throughout the country from his home in Herriman to speak about conservative principles and is a Fox News contributor. Owens, 68, played safety in the NFL for 10 years with the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, winning a Super Bowl with the Raiders in 1980. ![]() Sutherland is a conservative public policy think tank in Salt Lake City. ![]() Owens spoke Monday at a Sutherland Institute forum on conservatism. It’s been the black elitists, those in the black community that call themselves friends of the black race that vote for every single anti-black policy that comes through the pike that keeps us poor, uneducated, hopeless, angry, and they get wealthier at the same time,” he said. “I’ll be honest with you, the white supremacists have not been our greatest enemy. SALT LAKE CITY - A Democrat-turned-conservative-Republican who played professional football for a decade has sharp words for the “leftists” he sees as responsible for holding back blacks in America and turning the NFL against the red, white and blue.īurgess Owens pulls no punches when it comes to speaking his mind about what he sees happening in the country, which would be expected of someone who wrote a book titled, “Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps.”
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