Former NFL Player: ‘We Gotta Get God Back In Our Schools’ To Solve Racial, Economic Divide
Former NFL player Jack Brewer said the answer to all the issues currently plaguing the United States — including economic and racial divide — is not defunding the police or overturning the country’s social systems but it should start at home, with how children are being raised and the education that they receive later on.
The founder of The Jack Brewer Foundation noted that “access to education” is keeping America divided as he talked about his advocacy to bring education closer to those who lack it — “especially inner city kids.”
“Back in 2016, when Kaepernick started kneeling, I said there is something we gotta do to bring law enforcement and community and sports to be that vehicle,” Brewer said in an interview with The Daily Wire.
He noted that since then, he started working on programs and “partnered with a number of police athletic leagues around the country to kind of bridge that gap,” adding that he served for a couple of years as the spokesman for the police athletic league.
Former NFL Player, Jack Brewer: “We gotta get God back in our schools. I’m a believer in that. And most importantly, we gotta get discipline back in our schools because when you’re raised in discipline, then you demand discipline from other people as well.https://t.co/KpBjS8xfqO
— H L Wegley (@hlwegley) May 5, 2021
Lack of access to education
“As that grew and things didn’t necessarily get better around us with these relations, I just wanted to do more,” the former American football safety continued.
“I started to do a lot of teaching and we started programs in partnership with the Fordham Gabelli School of Business, and now with Liberty University. I started teaching professional athletes and I started teaching in the prisons, and I just noticed that one thing that’s keeping us divided was that access to education.”
The professional footballer — who played for the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Arizona Cardinals — said he went on to work on “doing something about this crazy educational gap.”
“I was blessed to be able to put together some curriculum and we started with our American Heroes (one of Brewer’s programs) and we started to work in the grammar, started to work in the etiquette training, started to work in some of these ancillary educational opportunities that are being pulled out of the public schools,” he said, noting that “inner city kids’ sometimes have reading and math proficiency levels “lower than third world countries.”
Brewer noted that as part of this advocacy, he will be opening up what he called the “Serving Institute,” which seeks to offer a “faith-based education” to kids — something that he said is “lacking in most public schools.”
“As of this year, (I’m) proud to announce we’re going to be opening up our first ‘Serving Institute,’ which will offer a private school faith-based curriculum, that we partner with Liberty university on — and also our sports programs and our value building programs, our etiquette programs, our grammar programs — to really try to give the kids access to the education that unfortunately, most public schools are just not delivering,” the former NFL player added.
Aside from the basic academic curriculum, Brewer’s institution will also hone kids holistically as he cited the adverse impact of the failure to cultivate other aspects of children’s lives early on in life.
“We’re teaching them how to be gentlemen, teaching them how to be servant leaders. That’s why we’re called the ‘Serving Institute,’” he said. “Every kid will be required to serve his community, feeding those that are less fortunate — even if they themselves are less fortunate — we’re going to take them to go do our serving projects.”
“We’re going to continue our sports equipment drives that we do around the globe with these kids and teach them that through service, they can also empower themselves while they’re empowering their communities, and it’s going to be faith based and we’re excited.”
“We gotta get God back” in schools
The former NFL player — who spoke during the 2020 Republican National Convention in support of former President Donald Trump — also noted the importance of “faith” in raising children to become socially-responsible individuals.
“We gotta get God back in our schools. I’m a believer in that,” Brewer said.
“And most importantly, we gotta get discipline back in our schools. When you’re raised in discipline, then you demand discipline from other people as well. And right now we’ve gotten so free — when they pulled the paddles out of the schools in the mid eighties — that’s where this all started.”
“I say it all the time, some kids need the paddle. They need that, that fear of authority being able to tell them what’s right or wrong. That’s why you see people disrespecting cops like they do now,” the former professional football player added, in a subtle dig at the youngsters rioting across the country and those seeking to destroy law enforcement in the country.
“We need the fear of God back in our schools, and we need our parents to start being parents again and not friends,” he added.
In his social media following these comments, Brewer reiterated his point of bringing back the “Word of God” in schools.
Can I get every Christian influencer in America to stand with me and demand the Word of God be established as truth in our schools?! Make this go virtual for our kids sake! In Jesus Name https://t.co/Zt2TxNOyvf
— Jack Brewer (@JackBrewerBSI) May 4, 2021
“Can I get every Christian influencer in America to stand with me and demand the Word of God be established as truth in our schools?! Make this go virtual for our kids sake! In Jesus Name,” Brewer said.
Brewer on RNC 2020
In his speech at the 2020 RNC, the former NFL player accused the media of falsely portraying President Trump as a “racist” while ignoring his contributions to the Black community.
“I know what racism looks like, I’ve seen it firsthand,” Brewer said. “America, it has no resemblance to President Trump. I’m fed up with the way he’s portrayed in the media, who refuse to acknowledge what he’s actually done for the Black community. It’s confusing the minds of our innocent children,” the lifelong Democrat, who switched to supporting President Trump said then.
