Russell Wilson Opens Up About Racist Encounter After 2014 Super Bowl Win

Russell Wilson has opened up about a racist encounter after the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl in 2014.

More and more celebrities are speaking up about racism, justice and equality following George Floyd’s death. One of them is the Seattle Seahawks quarterback, who shared his personal encounter with a racist on Wednesday (June 4) in an interview with ESPN.

According to Wilson, shortly after his team won the Super Bowl, someone told him, “That’s not for you,” while he was standing in line at a breakfast restaurant in California.

“And I said, ‘Huh? Excuse me?’ I thought he was joking at first,” the athlete explained.

“My back was kind of turned. I had just come off a Super Bowl and everything else, so if somebody is talking to me that way, you think about [a different] circumstance and how people talk to you. In that moment, I really went back to being young and not putting my hands in my pocket and that experience. That was a heavy moment for me right there. I was like, man, this is really still real, and I’m on the West Coast. This is really real right now. That really pained my heart.”

Wilson said he didn’t lash out at the unpleasant comment.

“I said, ‘Excuse me, sir, but I don’t appreciate you speaking to me that way’,” Wilson continued.

“He just kind of walked off. But in that little glimpse, even though it didn’t turn into something, what if it did?”

Wilson grew up in Richmond, Virginia. His parents taught him from a young age how to handle himself in such situations. He also admitted that “being black is a real thing in America.”

Wilson is a dad of two and will be welcoming his third child soon. He believes that there is so much in the country that has to change.

In related news, several black artists have called out Lea Michele for not treating them well when they were filming “Glee.” According to Samantha Marie Ware, Michele made her first TV show gig a “living hell.” Meanwhile, Dabier Snell said Michele made him feel like he didn’t belong there.

Michele already issued a public apology on Instagram.

“Whether it was my privileged position and perspective that caused me to be perceived as insensitive or inappropriate at times or whether it was just my immaturity and me just being unnecessarily difficult, I apologize for my behavior and for any pain which I have caused,” she wrote.