Duke Football Player Forced To Apologize Twice For Bad Reaction To Female Trainer's Shove | Jason Whitlock Harmony

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Duke fell 24 to 20 to North Carolina Saturday, but the score is not the story. And this will sound a little weird on the Harmony channel, but wait for it. I'm going to break down this football game and what you're witnessing here. And it relates to what we're going to talk about here on Harmony. Kimari Robinson, he stood over DaShawn Stone.

The stone is motionless on the turf.

Kimari says that Stone is like a family member to him. Two trainers are kneeled over Stone. And then a third staffer, the redheaded woman, she runs in, steps into that scene and circle, and she pushes Robinson out of the way. He swatted her arm away. The clip then goes viral. Everybody's got an opinion and oh, it's a bad look for Kimari Robinson. Robinson apologized to her that night. And then again, Sunday on X, he said he was completely wrong.

And I agree. Let me read a little bit from his statement. I want to publicly apologize to a member of our training staff for how I acted toward her during Saturday's game. I was completely wrong and she did not deserve that. Immediately after the game, I apologized to her personally and checked to make sure she was okay. The injured player on the ground, DaShawn Stone, is like family to me and I was scared he might be seriously hurt, but being worried about him does not excuse how I treated her. I should have controlled my emotions and I didn't. I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry for my actions and for letting her, myself and our program down. I have to be better than that. So hats off to Kimari Robinson. He owned his reaction. A man controls his hands even in panic. He failed that test. No excuse. But the narrative sense is a lie by omission.

She put hands on him first. You do not walk into a pile around a hurt player and shove a 200 pound cornerback in full pads. That's not a trainer offering care. That is a trainer doing way too much and escalating a situation. And my question is, where is her apology? Why is correction only traveling one direction toward the man? Let's watch the rest of the tape and see what happens here as two male trainers that don't appear to be student trainers. They arrive on the scene and take over and she backs away because she's not really offering anything. She was just a trainer walking up, probably a student trainer. Boom. Now she's out of there. She's got her water bottle and she's out of there. She doesn't do anything. There's no brace. There's no evaluation. There's no comfort. Her sole contribution to the entire sequence is pushing Robinson. Yet the mob demands Robinson carry 100% of the blame. She carries zero. She is cast as the innocent victim, fragile, helpless, beyond reproach. That is not chivalry. That is fiction. She's not the picture of innocence. She's a girl boss showing up to put men in their place. She's the equalizer. She's Queen Latifah replacing Denzel Washington.

He has a higher responsibility. I get that he's a man, but he's in the middle of a violent football game and his best friend appears to be out cold. I get and understand his emotion. I don't understand why she can't ask him, Hey, to step back. Instead she chooses to shove him back. I don't understand this at all. I'm not looking for equal treatment, but I am looking for some correction flowing her way. Because, and I get, everybody wants to be a gentleman at all times. Men aren't gentlemen in the middle of a football game. And I know I got that. Robinson looked up at her, saw that it was a woman, but he's in the middle of a football game. And a girl boss arrives on the scene and shoves him. And he has a bad reaction.

Why can't she apologize for her role in this? Because this is an issue of this whole girl boss mentality on these, that is being trained on these college campuses. They can do no wrong. They can push men around. Men have to always be in deference to them. Perhaps we've gone a little bit too far, or perhaps I've just become just a terrible person that I don't know, but I just think there was an opportunity for both of these young people to learn a lesson.