New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman has invited DeSean Jackson to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., three days after the Philadelphia Eagles wideout posted anti-Semitic passages attributed to Adolf Hitler on social media.
Jackson has since apologized for the posts, saying he “never wanted to put any people down” and “was just trying to uplift African Americans and slavery and just enlighten my people.”
In a video posted Thursday on Instagram, Edelman suggested that the Black and Jewish communities should try to uplift and enlighten each other.
"I think the Black and Jewish communities have a lot of similarities.