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actually create factional sports
scott eventually come out
and that's gonna
basically all paid up all the doors
for or the other
day closet athletes to come out
and i think we are now going to see that
because
and be a center jason collins has come out
an eight peace ridin for sports illustrated
and
i'm gonna just pick out
bits and pieces because i want you all to go read it
because it's it's very well-written it's clearly something then you should be
reading
from his perspective in terms of you know you're reading it
not me beating it four u uh...
it's just it's really good
powerful stuff powerful stuff yes
so um...
if you don't know jason collins is
he's that
he tells tells you he's got to stay high school he's pleading to stay high school
championships the n_c_ double a final four
the elite eight
and nine playoff and even in nine thousand twelve n_b_a_ seasons
he's played for six proceed teams
he's currently on the i watching tin wizards
and he's appeared in two n_b_a_ finals
he even mentions there's a
a game called three degrees of jason collins in the league and if he's been
your teammate apparently
you surely be that she made of his teammate
or to me about persons demanded goes on
sorta like abt kevin bacon
uh...
so he's a he's these classes how he came out is and to his first person cannot
deal she's a superior court judge in san francisco
he's waited for thirty three years to finally come out to tell someone who
and his family
that he's getting
estimating story aunty he's goes on to say how
people he was younger he did women he got engaged even got engaged
and
he was a twin
and his brother did in now and he told and sort of realized when he was a kid
that he was gay because
to start to notice that
while his parents brought 'em brought them up great with him
a full appreciation of history arts
uh... she realized that his brother was starting to to view
women differently you have in track and the girls
in the lyrics he sang to the motown songs they listen to and he just was
able to connect to it
and he talked about how
tonight was grandmother and hallie she grew up in rural louisiana and witness
segregation and did not was worried about him coming out
i mean for those who don't think there's a
connection there in terms of
what these people don't feel i mean
you sure you have someone who's seen it and she sees
that this is something that's that's equivalent to what segregation
i mean arm
he talks about how
when he left uh... boston in july
he actually went to the future to the wizards in washington and it was sort of
and that he decided you know i think this is going to be the time when i come
out
he said a college
classmate tried to persuade him to come out
and she thought that was in the time he didn't want to do it
during the season during during the season because he wanted
here one of the kind of distraction
to the other members of his team
took to the n_b_a_ and general he didn't feel like i was something that would
have
that have been good for the first player time-outs
i mean i understand what he did and i think it's great that he that he thought
they needed someone who's from thirty three years been thinking
and print the time now and say all these things it's clear
he wanted to do this on his terms and the best of times
and this little piece of mission i thought was so amazing
she chose a number
uh... he chose the jersey number ninety eight
when arm
when he was treated to isn't
and she said that that number had great significance for the gay community
because when the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes
occurred in nineteen ninety eight
uh... matthew shepard our university of wyoming student
was kidnapped tortured and lashed
prairie fence
he died five days after he was finally found
he said that
veterans brought into use never ninety eight
and also that that same year the trevor project was founded
an organization that provides crisis intervention
and suicide prevention
turkish struggling with their *** identity
he goes on to say how it became almost unbearable just this past march for him
to be closeted
because of what the supreme court was uh... ways of curing
arguments for
in terms of idea marriage
and uh... he said at one oh obama mentioned pierre nineteen sixty-nine
stonewall riots
uh... which launched the gay rights movement india you know and when obama
mentioned i a second you inaugural address
he said that's another thing that has made him want to come out um... we
discussed on this on this show that even though
whatever you think of obama
the words he says matters to other people
and i think you'll also see that only dizzy did did that mention of the
stonewall riots in obama's inaugural
mean something to the gay community
but i think you you really start to see
people who may have not
being so opening to the gay community finally start to realize that you know
maybe this is we have the wrong position
um...
he said how the biggest concern seems to be that declares will behave
unprofessionally in a lot going on
and said that he should step down in the second this by saying
he's taking plenty of showers in the well seasons
she's play basketball
behavior was an issue before
and it will be one now his conduct won't change was a demand for the past twelve
seasons going forward he's still the same man
uh... jessica mathai when the n_b_a_
he says that
he realized he needed to go public finally
hwan joe kennedy
and old roommate from stanford
who is now a massachusetts congressman
told him that he marched in the boston twenty twelve gay pride parade
he said he's very rarely jealous of other people
but after hearing what joe did
she felt and eats
she was so proud of his friend
and so angry at himself to be a cosmic gay men
and he was angry because he couldn't even show up at that gay pride event to
cheer on a his day friend marching in it
is straight answer his straight friend marching it you know he's a game at and
you've just been involved as a spectator
uh...
it's just an amazing story use really have to read it
washington one of the washington was just come out
and cedric sheerly proud of him is just restate
this article came out maybe about an our band a half ago
they just put that this came in about ten minutes ago saying they're proud of
him
white house said that this is
did extremely proud of him
this is big news
i think we're going to start seeing that that
kisses the closet doors will be opening it's amazing mean this is amazing really
amazing and just to too quick kind of
things on a
ana retrograde no reminds me
couple of months ago phil jackson
legendre you know lakers coach bulls coach
said he never encountered a gay player the whole time he's coach them
and this is the type of you know other developments in a way for phil jackson
at one point
that's one of the fact that screenplay for phil jackson i'm not sure uh... but
he did mention
closing paragraph
some people insist they've never met a gay person
but the three degrees of jason collins dictates that no n_b_a_ player
n_b_a_ player
can claim that anymore and ride or separate further and say nobody
can claim that anymore nobody that is exactly right oh someone who's gay
whether you know that they're gay or not
you know abroad there assist our
unko ant
there's someone in your family there's someone in the
a friend of yours friends family
there's someone you watch on tv
there's someone you talked to on the internet there's someone you walk past
in the streets
you knowledge a person