Amon-Ra St. Brown’s father John made some racist comments recently regarding breeding athletic children.
John Brown is the father of Amon-Ra and Equanimeous St. Brown, both of whom are NFL players. John has a third son Osiris who played college football at Stanford.
During an appearance on his sons’ “St. Brown Podcast,” Amon-Ra asked his father for his answer when he gets asked how he developed three Division I athletes. John said his answer has to do with breeding. He made clear that he had breeding on his mind when he had children.
“I believe in breeding,” John said. “I’m black, mom is white. I done stepped on it once. You can’t keep stepping on it cuz you’re going to weaken it. … you can’t keep cutting it.
“If I’m black, I got the black gold running through my veins, I’m excited. I’m just gonna find the right person to mate with. And if I’m white, I’m saying ‘let me get one of these brothers right here.’ If you want to have athletes.”
When John talked about “cutting it,” he was talking about the genetic lineage. He cautioned that his son Amon-Ra, who is already half-white and half-black, would be in danger of losing that black lineage by having children with a woman who is also half-white and half-black.
John Brown, for his part, was a two-time Amateur Mr. Universe when he was a bodybuilder in the early 1980s. He definitely has the strength in his lineage.
Many people noted that these comments were not far off from what Jimmy the Greek said in a 1988 interview that got him fired from CBS.
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