Old Photo Shows Young Jerry Jones with Students Trying to Keep School Segregated | THE ODD COUPLE

Okay, Rob, great story in the Washington Post about Jerry Jones and they wrote about how well one of the things that has caught a lot of people's attention is that they published a

photo

from obviously decades ago in which a 14-year-old boy 1957 Yes, yes, I was in the crowd of

students

, white

students

who were denying six black students access to North Little Rock High School. Now, this, of course, was just a few weeks before the famous integration of Little Rock Central High School when the nine black students integrated Little Rock Central because you remember the

photo

of that girl alone, what a brave girl.

Do you remember them yelling at him and all that? And every time I see that she is still, you know, and everything that she is.

trying

to go to

school

with no doubts, no doubts about it, um, which one is your? Know? What is your reaction in the photo? No, it doesn't surprise me at all, like in 1957 and Little Rock, and it's just amazing that they got a picture of him and it's him, there's no doubt that's true because you can see he looks like him, he looks like a 14-year-old. years, he looks like him, so it's funny when you look at things in history, uh, and you know where the people are and what side. history and different things and you know know if something was right or wrong or at that time or probably during that time those were the times of the day Chris, you know those were the times that I lived in and what people were doing and and and all that. and he obviously got trapped.

I wonder at some point when I think about people's beginnings and their thoughts or whatever was going on in their family or in their house Chris or what was said or whatever you know and every once in a while you become a very successful and rich person and you know, and now you're playing to pay these same black people millions of dollars, you know what I mean? It's not like he's a charity or anything like he's doing anything special, they make a lot more money, they make good money, so I don't want it to seem like you know he's, oh, he's a great guy, no, they You are paying because that is what the market carries.

He has nothing to do with anything else, yes, and he wants to win football. games, let's

keep

it good and if those black guys couldn't help them win football games, he wouldn't have them on a team. I say it all the time, Robin, we've talked about it on the show, it's sad. because this really shouldn't be like this, the history of the country is sad, let's say it's worse than sad, it's tragic, but sports say it, it's certainly debatable, with all due respect to Dr. Martin Luther King and the rights movement civilians and all the brave people who marched and fought and, you know, sat and were killed and just did everything they did to achieve integration and equal rights.

Sports may have done more than anything else in this country to make the grade and us, us. I still have a ways to go, but the degree of inclusion and racial equality that we have in this country is why we consider there to be none, why we hold black athletes to such a high standard. You know what I mean about how we bow. them, Chris, because they were like the ones that we saw break through publicly, you know, like, uh, push, we saw the movie that we already know about Jackie Robinson and everything that people had to endure and, um, a lot of times they were able to break through first. true and as you said, if I mean, if they hadn't been, if African Americans hadn't been such great athletes, I firmly believed that we wouldn't be as racially advanced as a country as Jerry Jones is if he wants to work. in the NFL you have to have black athletes and that's it, Bear Bryant, one of the best college coaches of all time, one of the most legendary college coaches, we couldn't win him, he couldn't stop, he was winning national championships in Alabama, they played against USC, Sam bam Cunningham. ran for his entire team and USC destroyed him and he went out and started recruiting black players right there, that's it and again it's shameful, it shouldn't be about sports, it should be about respecting your fellow man, who we all create an image of God. regardless of your race, your ethnicity, your nationality, that's what it should be about, but there's no question that sports, unfortunately, has been sports, this plays such a big role now Rob Jerry Jones, this is what he said, quoted in the Daily Mail, he is now 80 years old.

This is what he said about the photo. I don't know if I or anyone anticipated or had a history of knowing what he was involved in. It was more of a curious thing now. I don't know. I don't know Jerry Jones. I certainly obviously didn't know. I don't know anything back then, I will know and he I don't know what his racial views were. He's on it, if you look at the photo, I mean, it looks like he's looking to see what's going on, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I know that yes, visibly from that picture now, that doesn't mean that he wasn't firmly against integration and that was the news of the day, you know what I mean, it was Chris, you notice it even from the point of view of even from a religious point of view and like the churches and you know they were not in the church against segregation and you know what I mean and the Santa's in the South were heretical, that is, false belief, false doctrine is what they put on them because they were promoting white supremacy, right, right, you know what I mean, right where people were leaving church and going to lynch a black person. and so it really wasn't Christianity that was taught, it was white supremacy more than Christianity and so it's documented that the

school

s in the South that's what they taught, they taught, you know lies about slavery, that it was a benevolent institution and something you know, black people were cursed and stuff like that, all kinds of nonsense, so yeah, that's how people compete, which is interesting, Rob is Jerry Jones and I mean, look at Jerry Jones, African American players, Rob , they, you know, they all seem like I have great relations with him, so I'm not going to say anything about him because it means he's racist or whatever he was back then, I don't know, no, but there's nothing there May we look at and change your heart too. right, I mean that's what people progress, people progress, people grow, people progress, people learn, people change, so I'm not going to judge it by that photo that the last time you said, the photo is not, you don't do it now if he was holding a firm to Chris with the N-word, well, we had audio and video and he's yelling at the students or whatever, get the F out of here or whatever, so You know, when we're here for ourselves, Chris, that's totally different, well, it's interesting that some things are fine, it

shows

you how, because a lot of times, when we talked about this in the past, and I think a lot of white people They do it like they talk about it like it's ancient history, this is a man who, yes, is 80 years old. years old, but he's still a big part of American pop culture, he's an influential American and there are a lot of

young

er people than him who may have had racist attitudes or grown up in this kind of environment and you know what they still are. above, they are hiring people, yes or no, hiring people.

He hasn't had a black coach in his team year as owner of the Cowboys, but you know what I'm saying, that means it's racial, but I'm just saying he hasn't hired any black coaches, but his point is well taken because those people are still alive, yes, the people who were in the schools or the black deniers tell me to use separate water fountains or whatever, he denied them employment, Chris, yes. because that's the thing, yeah, they're not all dead, they're still alive, there's still a lot of people alive and you just said it, he's a big shot that influences a lot of people and that's why I really believe you.

I know in about I don't know 20 years 30 years whatever it will be at some point that generation and those people who live those moments will no longer be present but they won't I don't know but I'm just saying but they are Still here, yes, yes, yes, it's interesting and, you know, I always Rob, we've seen pictures of black people that were lynched and stuff like that, they're horrible and when you see them, Rob, sometimes the people around them, the white people are standing there like you're holding a trout that they captured in the ocean, you know what I mean, like it was a sport and there is, and in some of these photos, whether it was a lynching or it was the students

trying

to integrate into the school, you see white women, older women, youths. whatever they shout at the top of their lungs vitriol, right, someone you would look at and think is just a good person, a nice

young

citizen and they're still there, you can see the hate there, you know what I mean and the others a the ones I've seen Chris and I don't want you to know it so graphically, but even in some of the lynchings, they also have picnics in a park, that's right, it's fine and there are children there, and if you've never seen it. those photos it is important to look at them only from the point of view to know what was really happening and never forget those things.

I really think I don't think you should protect yourself you know what I mean totally about things and I think it's about standing up for what's right because I think most people will agree with the general thinking of the day yeah. because it's a mentality, you know, right, these are people who were seen as upstanding citizens, moral citizens like you said, some went to church, most went. to the church, let's face it and yet because they followed the spirit of the day, however wrong it may have been, tragedy occurred and therefore it is important to stand up for what is right, even regardless of what it says the society.