THIS Olympian just claimed ESPN contracts are the 'new slave chains'

If you thought Ibram X. Kendi was ready to fade into obscurity, then you were wrong.

The author of the infamous book “How to Be an Antiracist” is the host of a new ESPN+ series called “Skin in the Game.”

The show plans to challenge racism in the sports world.

In one clip from the new show, Olympian Gwendolyn Berry is seen telling Kendi that because athletes have to sign a contract, they are “literally the new slaves.”

Berry, an Olympic hammer-thrower, famously turned away from the American flag while the “Star-Spangled Banner” played.

“We need this. Our families, our friends depend on this contract to eat,” she adds.

Pat Gray scoffs, noting, “You don’t have to sign it. Nobody’s putting a gun to your head to sign the contract.”

“You could go and work at 7-Eleven, and you probably won’t have to sign a contract, actually. Now, 7-Eleven may not pay you the slave wages that the NFL for instance will, you know. You’ll probably make non-slave wages like, I don’t know, $15 an hour or something as opposed to $35 million a year,” he adds.

Of course, as Keith Malinak notes, athletes sign a contract because they’re on a team with a predetermined schedule, that includes games that they will need to take part in for the team to succeed.

“It never ceases to amaze the lengths to which ESPN will go in order to hammer home their propaganda and their agenda,” Gray says, adding that while African-Americans make up 14% of the American population, they make up about 75% or 80% of NFL players.

“You don’t see white people saying, ‘Hey, why aren’t there white guys out there on the basketball court?’ We all know why. Because it’s based on merit, yeah, it’s based on your talent,” Gray adds.

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