Dallas, TX - After fans at the FC Dallas - Nashville Major League Soccer game booed the Black Lives Matter solidarity protest and chanted USA-USA at the collected players, FC Dallas fan Rick Watson spent the morning stating, “I’ve got at least two black friends, so, no, I’m not racist,” on Twitter as he attempted to explain away the situation.
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“I told my black friends sorry and that our community is behind them, but I’ve always wondered if THIS is really the best way to protest,” stated Watson online. “I don’t agree with the boos, I’ve got at least two black friends, so you know I’m not racist, but …well… you know… people around here…. look…. um… people around here….they…don’t like to see the national anthem being protested against. The next thing you know they will be outlawing The Eyes Of Texas for being racist.”
According to Watson, one of his good friends is Jerramy Hughes, a fellow employee of Energy Transfer Equity who works in Human Resources. Watson has said, "Go Cowboys," several times to Hughes in the 10 years they've worked together.
“I feel like I’ve gotten closer to him,” stated Watson to our reporter. “He’s answered all 803,048 of my questions about Black people that I never knew like the show Martin, and who Cash Money Records is, and whether he knows my neighbor Charlene.”
Watson repeated that you know he’s not racist, but that, “Black Lives Matter but why before a game? I just want to not think about being white for 90 minutes and I ended up having to think about it for 10 seconds. It made me feel very uncomfortable, not that there’s an excuse for what happened but they DID kick out the person who threw the bottle so I’m sure this will never happen again.”
The Nutmeg News will have more as Watson cut our interview short before making a mass text to his two black friends that he voted for Obama at least once.