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Video: After NFL Star’s Incredible Black Lives Matter Statement, Look What ESPN Did To Him
After Seattle Seahawks star cornerback Richard Sherman criticized aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement, an ESPN host called him out.
Michael Smith, co-host of ESPN’s His and Hers, called Sherman’s views on Black Lives Matter “counter-productive.”
At a press conference on Wednesday, the NFL player corrected the record concerning a post allegedly authored by him calling for violence against police. “I don’t think any time’s a time to call out for an all-out war against police or any race of people. I thought that was an ignorant statement,” Sherman said.
He went on stating things “need to be addressed internally before you move on. From personal experience, you know, you have living in the hood, living in the inner city, you deal with things, you deal with people dying. Dealt with a best friend getting killed — it was two 35-year-old black men. Wasn’t no police officer involved, wasn’t anybody else involved, and I didn’t hear anybody shouting ‘black lives matter’ then.”
“I think as long as we have black-on-black crime and, you know, one black man killing another — if black lives matter, then it should matter all the time,” Sherman said. “You should never let somebody get killed — that’s somebody’s son, that’s somebody’s brother, that’s somebody’s friend. So you should always keep that in mind.”
The cornerback also stated: “I don’t think all cops are bad.” He added. “You know, I think there’s some great cops out there, who do everything in their power to uphold the badge and uphold the honor and protect the people in society. But there are bad cops, and I think that also needs to be addressed.”
For ESPN host Smith, Sherman giving any credence to the thought that the black community also has to police its own ranks was more than he could bear.
“I respect the hell out of Richard Sherman, what he’s done, where he’s come from to where he is now. He’s a smart brother,” Smith said on his program on Thursday. “I like him a lot, but he’s dead wrong on this. And with all due respect I think he needs to do a little more reading … a little more introspection before he starts speaking on this. Because … it undermines the message and the movement that is Black Lives Matter.”
“If Richard Sherman wants to run in politics someday, please don’t run on a respectability politics platform as if the Black Lives Matter movement and the problems it is [trying] to combat are the result of problems we have brought on ourselves,” Smith said. “We’ve got to get over that. We’ve got to get beyond that. And I’m just a little disappointed to hear Richard Sherman speak on that and validate the people who think that. We hear that enough every day.”
h/t: TheBlaze
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/video-after-nfl-stars-incredible-black-lives-matter-statement-look-what-espn-did-to-him/
