Tag: Cris Carter

First Things First co-host Nick Wright has often raised some interesting points in interviews, including how FS1 isn’t a debate network, why it’s worth talking about LeBron James every day, and why his show focuses on elements he, Cris Carter and Jenna Wolfe know well. First, he said he thought some people went after Hill for comments that weren’t about politics, and that he tends to stick to sports himself, but address political issues when they do impact sports: On the ESPN front, I think a lot of the people who have been attacked has been very unfair. I think a lot of that criticism was unfair. Now I do have an obligation to myself, that when Colin Kaepernick is the sports story, I am not going to shade my opinions on it. Beyond that, Wright had some significant thoughts differentiating discussion of race from discussion of politics. I’ll say one more thing on this…talking about race is not talking about politics and that discussion has been hijacked. Talking about equal rights is not political. It should be offensive to people on both sides of the aisle to act like advocating for equal rights is a liberal or conservative position. I think I have a particular level of expertise historically and from my own personal story about those things, I think I am very good at those discussions, better than a lot of people on sports television, so when those discussions come up I embrace them. It’s interesting to hear these kinds of comments from Wright, especially on the Kaepernick and McNair fronts, where others on his network have provided very different takes.