Would somebody please tell this idiot to shut the fukk up?
NEW YORK (CNNSI.com) -- Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown, whose life after football has been devoted to grass-roots activism, says Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and others among the current generation of black athletes aren't doing nearly enough to help improve life in the black community.
"Money has changed today's black athletes," Brown said in an interview in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated. "Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make."
The 66-year-old Brown, who used his nine years with the NFL's Cleveland Browns and a subsequent Hollywood acting career as a platform to address racial issues, told SI's Don Yaeger that he was disappointed by most of today's black athletes.
"Michael Jordan would be one. Charles [Barkley] is talking about issues, but I don't think Charles is in touch with the community," Brown said. "They're all nice guys now -- don't misunderstand me. But they have the ears of the general public, they have the money, and they could call together 100 black athletes and solve so many problems in these inner cities, it would be unbelievable."
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