“We’ll always have the situation where people won’t see us as total people. Sometimes they just see us as football players,”  When the president publicly calls you an SOB It's not because he just sees you as a football player "disrespecting" the flag or America or whatever - he sees a black man asserting himself and that's clearly not tolerable in Trump's new Jim Crow America. I'm pretty sure it's unprecedented for a president to use such hateful and foul language directed at specific Americans in a public speech. Maybe short of Jefferson's notion of “The blacks...are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind," Jackson calling Indians savages, Polk's hatred of "mongrel" Mexicans, Wilson calling the KKK "great", Roosevelt's Japanese internment order, ....uhh never mind.