Former NFL safety Jack Brewer said God and discipline must return to classrooms in order to change the anti-police sentiment and racial divide spreading across the country.
“We gotta get God back in our schools. I’m a believer in that,” Brewer told the Daily Wire. “And most importantly, we gotta get discipline back in our schools because when you’re raised in discipline, then you demand discipline from other people as well. And right now, we’ve gotten so free. When they pulled the paddles out of the schools in the mid-80s, that’s where this all started. I say it all the time: Some kids need the paddle. They need that — that fear of authority being able to tell them what’s right or wrong. That’s why you see people disrespecting cops like they do now.”
Brewer is the founder of The Jack Brewer Foundation, which works to combat poverty across the world, and he will also launch a faith-based education program called the Serving Institute this month.
“If you do anything that’s disrespectful, speak disrespectfully, if you don’t show the highest level of discipline, I will physically exert you as your punishment so that you understand that you have to be held accountable. We need the fear of God back in our schools, and we need our parents to start being parents again and not friends,” he added of his new program.
Brewer said he was inspired to help build a positive relationship between the police and the community in 2016, after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting the national anthem.
“Back in 2016, when Kaepernick started kneeling, I said there is something we gotta do to bring law enforcement and community and sports to be that vehicle,” Brewer said. “And so we started that program and partnered with a number of police athletic leagues around the country to kind of bridge that gap. And I served for a couple of years as the spokesman for the Police Athletic League.”
“And as that grew and things didn’t necessarily get better around us with these relations, I just wanted to do more,” Brewer continued. “I started to do a lot of teaching, and we started programs in partnership with the Fordham Gabelli School of Business and now with Liberty University. I started teaching professional athletes, and I started teaching in the prisons. And I just noticed that one thing that was keeping us divided was that access to education.”
Brewer has been an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, and he defended him against claims of racism during a speech at the Republican National Convention last August.
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“I remember my dad’s bravery when he personally stood up against a KKK rally in my town,” Brewer said while explaining his experience as a black man growing up in Texas. “I know what racism looks like. I’ve seen it firsthand in America. It has no resemblance to President Trump.”
“I’m fed up with the way he’s portrayed in the media, who refuse to acknowledge what he’s actually done in the black community,” Brewer added during the speech. “It’s confusing the minds of our innocent children.”
