Marshawn Lynch is a man of few words.
Nothing seems to faze the Oakland native, but when he does speak up, he lets you know exactly how he feels.
The Raiders running back recently was a guest on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and when asked about President Donald Trump calling him unpatriotic for sitting during the playing of the national anthem, Lynch had quite the response.
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"I mean, you know, that motha----er say a lot of s---," Lynch said. "At the end of the day, you called me unpatriotic, but if you know me, you know you come to my neighborhood where I’m from, and you know you’ll see me take the shirt off my back and give it to someone in less need. What would you call that?”
In November 2017, Trump went on a Twitter rant calling for the NFL to suspend Lynch for the rest of the season. This is the first time Lynch has publicly responded to such comments.
Lynch grew up in Oakland and was a star at Oakland Technical High School before attending Cal and becoming a first-round draft pick in the NFL. He signed with the Raiders before the 2017 season, and consistently has been a champion in his community with charitable works.
He also spoke on the issues of gentrification in Oakland and how he's helped with the problem.
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"I've been a witness of it since I was a small jitterbug," Lynch said. "Now that I've grown up and I'm seeing it and I understand it a little more."
Maher then asked Lynch what he's been doing for Oakland to resolve gentrification to make sure African-Americans aren't being kicked out of neighborhoods they have been in for years.
"With bangin' my head against people, I had the opportunity to make a couple dollars," he said with a laugh. "So therefore I started buying some real estate in the area I grew up at in order to give people opportunity for housing."
Lynch will become a free agent in March. It's unknown if he'll continue playing football, but what we do know is he'll always be a man of the people in Oakland.