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I mean watching tucker carlson, linda chavez, like quiver and squeal in delight, you know, you are a grown man. like grow up. grow up. >> right. >> you are a man and youre groveling at the foot of this kid because of the people he killed. >> yeah, no -- >> what is wrong with him? >> it is really scary. there is this very strange idea of masculinity that seems to prevail on the right, and tucker carlson i think exemplifies it. it is really -- it really is unfortunate. i think just as a matter of ...

Something about how i hope he takes the opportunity to recognize what he did was awful, and its own for. and change his life. and do something that makes the world a better place. i think people, were angry at, that because they fell a lot of rage at the unjust and they felt with the verdicts. that core point again, to put the politics aside for a second. if this is a six six spectacle. this is a very sick spectacle, with a lot of people, who should know better who dont. watching tucker carlson ...

Patrice evra, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. what has happened to you? �*cause as a professional footballer, when you saw journalists you tended to turn the other way, you didnt really want to talk to journalists. but now here you are, youre a massive star on social media, youve just written a searingly honest memoir. what has changed for you? maybe im more open, more ready, i think emotionally, more open, getting rid of that toxic masculinity. i met the woman of my life to help me to open my...

So i need to fight for them. i needed to play and do something, a job and having money so everything was possible then. i would try to make — using any opportunity to get money. there was something that happened in your childhood that i know has taken you many years to talk about. something that wasnt about you being defiant, being strong, running on the street, but actually about you as a very vulnerable boy. it happened when you were 13 years old. why have you decided to tell the world about...

Patrice evra, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. what has happened to you? cos, as a professional footballer, when you saw journalists you tended to turn the other way, you didnt really want to talk to journalists. but now here you are, youre a massive star on social media, youve just written a searingly honest memoir. what has changed for you? maybe im more open, more ready, i think emotionally, more open, getting rid of that toxic masculinity. i met the woman of my life to help me to open myself ...

My dad never watch tv or maybe lose the remote, he was a busy man. and 89 nephews and they all call me santa. so i need to fight for them. i needed to play and do something, a job and having money so anything was possible then. i would try to make — using any opportunity to get money. there was something that happened in your childhood that i know has taken you many years to talk about. something that wasnt about you being defiant, being strong, running on the street, but actually about you as...

Why have you decided to tell the world about it now? i decided because i had an extra push with a woman of my life and i was talking about toxic masculinity and to open myself and ifeel safe. and, she would say, "patrice, you are such a good person and funny, positive" but she said "i can feel something wrong with you." and i didnt want to know the reason but we watch a documentary about the paedophile and she looked at me and she said, "whats wrong?" and i said, "nothing, nothing." and i burst ...

Maybe im more open, more ready, i think emotionally, more open, getting rid of that toxic masculinity. i met the woman of my life to help me to open myself to the world. because i think before that i think i was like a robot, like a machine, just a winning mentality, a survivor. being abused in my childhood, living in the streetjust like, surviving, i hate people from the street when they call themselves a gangster. im not a gangster, im just a survivor. and, you know, born in this world with my...

Oppression. and everyone, she points out, we live in this -- these interlocking forms of oppression, and we can all struggle against them. so she never criticized or devalued, right, individual men, including black men, but she held men accountable or anyone accountable who participated in patriarchy. even white women -- even black women could participate in patriarchy. she called us all to oppose these forms of domination, whatever they are, and she spoke lovingly of black men. she criticized t...