Editor's note: Jon Gruden as head trainer of the Las vega Raiders complying with short articles published in The Wall surface Street Journal and New York Times describing making use of racist, homophobic and misogynistic terms by Jon Gruden in e-mails supposedly dating back to 2010, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported.

NFL Athletes Association executive supervisor DeMaurice Smith on Monday released a declaration in relation to Las Vegas Raiders head train Jon Gruden's 2011 e-mail in which Gruden utilized a racial trope to explain Smith.

Smith's declaration, which was, emphasized Smith's belief that the email is a verification the fight to stop racism and also intolerance is recurring and that football must "be much better."

"The e-mail from Jon Gruden-- as well as several of the response to it-- verifies that the battle versus bigotry, racist tropes and also intolerance is not over. This is not concerning an email as much as it is about a prevalent idea by some that people who look like me can be dealt with as less," Smith's statement checked out. "The email has also disclosed why the remarks by some with effective platforms to explain this away are perilous as well as sanctimonious. It is as if there is a demand to secure football over the worths of equality, incorporation as well as respect.

"The powerful in our business need to welcome that football itself needs to be better, as opposed to making justifications to maintain the status quo.

"I appreciate that he reached out to me [as well as] I told him that we will certainly attach soon, however make indisputable, the news is not about what is stated in our personal discussion, however what else is said by people that never ever believed they would be revealed as well as how they are mosting likely to be held to account."

Smith's statement was issued a day after for the comments-- that were from The Wall Surface Road Journal. Gruden, when he worked as a Monday Night Football expert for ESPN, sent a 2011 e-mail to then-Washington president Bruce Allen during the NFL lockout in which Gruden created, "Dumboriss Smith has lips the dimension of michellin tires," referring to Smith, who is Black.

"All I can say is that I'm not a racist," Gruden claimed following the Raiders' to the Chicago Bears. "I can not tell you exactly how sick I am. I ask forgiveness again to De Smith, yet I really feel good concerning who I am and what I've done my whole life. I excuse the aloof comments. I had no racial intentions with those remarks in all. But ... yes, they can ... I'm not like that at all. I apologize however I don't want to keep resolving it."

The organization and also Raiders proprietor Mark Davis launched declarations Friday that condemned Gruden's comments.