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Robert Griffin just wants to talk about sports.

Griffin, who won the Heisman Trophy at Baylor and played for the Washington Commanders before injuries diminished his NFL career, had something to get off of his chest in the wake of being bashed by social media over him wanting sports show to be about sports.

Griffin III faced intense heat on social media when he said Jackie Robinson breaking the MLB’s color barrier wasn’t political.

Robinson was a hot topic when it was discovered that the federal government removed an article honoring his military service.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith and Mina Kimes even mentioned the situation on air.

That would prompt a response from Griffin III, who said, “Sports shows on TV should be about sports, not politics.”

In a follow-up tweet, Griffin clarified that it wasn’t about Robinson. He then went on to list several other Black athletes and claimed that their achievements weren’t political.

In response, a lot of people would start to bring up former ESPN employee Rob Parker.

In 2012, the ESPN commentator was suspended after he questioned Robert Griffin III’s “blackness” on air, calling him a “cornball brother,” which led to Parker’s eventual dismissal.

Robert Griffin III Brings Up Rob Parker And The Black Community

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In 2012, Rob Parker called Robert Griffin III a ‘cornball brother’ and said that the Washington quarterback is ‘not one of us.’

Griffin welcomed Stephen A. Smith on his Outta Pocket with RG3 podcast so the former quarterback could clarify his stick-to-sports opinion while simultaneously speaking on Parker and how the Black community hurt his reputation by constantly bringing up that moment anytime they disagreed with anything he had to say.

“13 years ago, Stephen A. on First Take. There was a conversation that happened on the show involving Rob Parker,” Griffin recalled. “Rob Parker talked about, was I a brother, was I a real brother, was I really down for the cause? And you know what his point was about why he asked that question? It had nothing to do with sports. It had nothing to do with my performance on the field. It was because my fiancé was white. It was because he thought I was a Republican.

“He made First Take, in that moment, a political forum for political attacks and personal conversations. Stephen A, that single conversation has followed me for 13 years of my professional career. As an athlete, and also in the media. When people in the Black community don’t agree with me, what do they do? They start posting Rob Parker memes. You can’t find a single instance of someone questioning my Blackness before that conversation happened on First Take. Stephen A, that’s why I feel sports shows on television should be about sports and not made political.

“Sports and politics always intertwine. What you said about Jackie Robinson wasn’t making the show political, but then removing it and turning it into a presidential campaign or ‘I want to debate these guys on this or that,’ to me, was emblematic or representative of what I went through with Rob Parker.”