Melrose Elementary in St. Petersburg invited Jameis Winston to deliver a motivational speech to its students, presumably because Winston is paid millions of dollars to throw a football.
What started as your typical "You can do anything!" speech typically delivered to crowds young enough to believe it went off the rails when the #youth lost interest.
From tampabay.com:
Things went wrong when a few students appeared to be bored.
"All my young boys, stand up. The ladies, sit down," Winston said. "But all my boys, stand up. We strong, right? We strong! We strong, right? All my boys, tell me one time: I can do anything I put my mind to. Now a lot of boys aren't supposed to be soft-spoken. You know what I'm saying? One day y'all are going to have a very deep voice like this (in deep voice). One day, you'll have a very, very deep voice.
"But the ladies, they're supposed to be silent, polite, gentle. My men, my men (are) supposed to be strong. I want y'all to tell me what the third rule of life is: I can do anything I put my mind to. Scream it!"
Says a lot about Winston's worldview when his default setting is women are "supposed to be silent."
