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Michael Johnson

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  1. “Yeah, I don't know. It's some days, I think, yeah, it's working. I see what you're doing, you know, because there's some really important issues that need to be, you know, governed and taken care of that are, you know, imminent, that are, you know, immediate right now as opposed to, you know, some of these social issues and polarization. That's going to take some time to unravel that. And so I get it. I think a lot of people on the left kind of want him to do more. I think a lot of them, you know, don't want him to continue the, I reach across the aisle rhetoric. I don't know. This is where it gets, you know, above my level of expertise. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see if he decides to run again.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “So we're not in this issue. You could say the real problem then that we have with regards to these classified documents is there's obviously no system to safeguard them. That's the problem, but nobody's talking about that because we're so focused on scoring points on each other.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “It's like, okay, you know, we got to defend our guy. You know, this isn't the same situation as Trump's situation. And then the Trump people are saying, oh, the right-wing people are saying, see, your guy's got some documents too. It's like, That's what we're talking about. And then Pence comes up. I got some documents. What does Fox News say? Mike Pence found some documents at his house as opposed to when it was Biden. Documents found at Biden's house. He says, come on, you know”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Biden finds some documents at his house and says, hey, I found some documents at my house coming clean. Here they are. At that point, we should have all been asking the question. The question I was asking, who the hell is responsible for these documents that doesn't even know where they are if they're so important to national security? Who's responsible for this? That's not the topic. The topic is all about, even from the elect, it's.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “It's unbelievable. There is not a single issue or thing something just benign becomes a political polarizing issue. Anything. I mean, that's where we are. There's no trust. There's no dialogue between the two sides. It looks like, and this is the shame of it, it looks like and it feels like a sporting event. I have my team, you have your team. And everybody's waking up every day hoping to see that their team scored some points today on the other side and didn't get any points scored on us today. That's it. You take this issue with these classified documents. So the whole Trump classified documents issue was one in which he had a bunch of documents that he said, these are mine. You know, they're not yours and I don't belong to the government. First, he said didn't have them. So they raid his house and they get documents.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “It feels like it's very frustrating because I think we get even myself, we start to get desensitized to it sometimes when another black person is killed by the police. You know, you just kind of, you know, I find myself some days, you know, just scrolling on social media or just watching the news and, you know, damn, you know, oh well. Or we have an issue with, you know, guns and mass murders. It's not a black issue. It's just a people issue that lives are being lost because, again, we're in this situation where one side sees a benefit to allowing people to have as many guns as they want. The other side, you know, we all see that. That's a problem. Lives are being lost and for no good reason. So we get desensitized to it. And you get really sometimes a bit down about it, you know. This kind of, you know, keep rolling and keep going.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Know, do what you put on paper. You said that we're all equal, do it, act on it. And everyone realizes that we see the hypocrisy and people want fairness. They want equality. So they're out there marching.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “It is important and they are. I mean, because this is not just about black people. This is about women. About the LGBTQ community. It's about, you know, brown people, immigrants. It's about all of these marginalized groups. That's what it's about. And I was after George Floyd, I was blown away seeing the variety of different people out there every day, mostly young people, but older people as well. But I was blown away by the variety of different people, white people, black people, immigrants. You name it out there marching because they knew and they could see it. This is not right. This is not right. And all they're wanting, everyone wants is for in America, just do what you say. You say we're all equal It's all on paper”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Yeah, well, sometimes you need to be a soldier. I mean, this is serious. I mean, we talk about culture war, you know, we talk about, you know, social war. Look, this is what it is. It's a battle. You can call it, you can call it a war. You can call it a battle. We hear that all the time. It's a battle for the soul of the country It is that serious. It absolutely is that serious.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “My position has changed on that. Had you asked me that before 2021, you know, 2020, George Floyd looked at This whole period that we're in now, I would say, and I always did say, look, that's up to each athlete, you know, to make that decision for themselves. And I will respect whatever their decision is. But once you're in a war, and we are now, and I think most of the athletes know it, it's very evident to everyone. It's very clear to everyone. And you have some of the biggest names in sport going out there using their platform. You have large corporations getting behind them and supporting them in using their platform for good. And some of the athletes decide, well, I just don't want to take the risk or I just don't want to take any risk at all. Yeah, I have a problem with that.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “And those are the sorts of things that I think a lot of, you know, a lot of people who would wish that every athlete used their platform don't understand that the decision to use that platform is not one to be taken lightly. So I applaud all of the athletes who are because it's a very difficult decision. And there's a lot of uncertainty.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I'm retired. It's easy for me to say absolutely hell yeah. I take the knee and I'd raise my fist, you know, but these athletes today that are out there competing, they get death threats. I've gotten death threats, you know, just for supporting some of these athletes. So they get death threats. I think that now it's easier now because there's strength in number. And when you have people like LeBron James, I mean, globally you have Lewis Hamilton. You have people like that who are using their platform, fighting for equality. And it makes it easier for others. You know, you to jump on.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Progress, a tremendous amount of progress was made, but we still had issues, and we knew we still had issues. I don't know that I would have done it. I mean, it's a huge risk. And the environment at that time, you know, from a sponsorship standpoint, Was not very tolerant of that sort of thing. So, you know, and it's easy for me. I just say that because I'm conscious of the fact that”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yeah, it's a good question. I would today, but in the nineties when I was competing, and look, we still had issues then. I mean, Smith and Carlos raised their fist in sixty eight. By the 90s, you know.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Right. They don't want to. Well, there's a political power part of this where they just don't want to give up their power. And then there's a social component of it just so the normal rank and file people who are not the politicians who don't want to give up their privilege. And look, at the end of the day, you probably are going to have to give up some privilege in order for everyone to be equal. I don't think there's another solution. So people are fighting to keep their privilege on the one side and people on the other side were fighting for equality.”

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  16. “The other side are conservatives in America who truly do want to stop the progress. They don't want to see the progress. They're not comfortable with progress.”

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  17. “Clear to us, and it's become clear to everyone, and it's become clear to the other side that we are now aware that we aren't as equal as we thought we were.”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Yeah, it's interesting. What I say and how I feel is it would be very, very convenient, you know, if we all could just stick to sport. I'd love to just stick to sport, but I can't, and most of us as athletes, we can't because the issues are too important, and we have a platform that is too valuable to not be used for these issues. I mean, certainly in America, for sure, maybe in other places as well. It's a war. It's like a Cold War that we're in right now where we've made significant progress, no doubt about that, in terms of equality. But I think a lot of us have sort of woken up to the fact that we haven't made as much progress as we thought we had, and that has become very real and very”

    2023-02-13 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 5: Michael Johnson: Politics, protest, and sport · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source