Comcast SportsNet’s Tarik El-Bashir asked Robert Griffin III about Martin Luther King and the 1963 March on Washington.
“To me it means what it means to everybody, and [then] some,” the quarterback said. “You know, obviously, being African American, what Martin Luther King did for us was phenomenal, and it’s still building each day. We’re getting more and more towards what his dream was, because his dream is not fulfilled yet. But over that, it means a lot for this country in general. Because this country was going through a tough time of not seeing its own mistakes, and he brought that to light in his life, and in his death. So I think Martin Luther King not only means a lot to the African-American community, but he means a lot to the United States of America in general.”
Then Tarik asked Griffin to assess race relations in the country more broadly.
“I mean, it’s still a work in progress,” Griffin said. “That’s something that we can’t deny. There’s three things you don’t talk about – race, religion and politics – but when it comes to race relations, it’s not where it needs to be. But eventually we’ll get there, and we’ll fulfill Martin Luther King’s dream.”