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NFL Superstar Richard Sherman: ‘All Lives Matter’

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Seattle Seahawks superstar cornerback Richard Sherman gave a recent interview where he made it clear that he feels all lives matter equally.

Sherman went into great detail about race in America and his views on the issues in a interview with The Undefeated.

He said in part about Black Lives Matter:

It’s hard to formulate an opinion and generalize because they have several different messages. Some of them are peaceful and understandable and some of them are very radical and hard to support. Any time you see people who are saying, ‘Black Lives Matter,’ and then saying it’s time to kill police, then it is difficult to stand behind that logic. They are generalizing police just like they are asking police not to generalize us. It is very hypocritical. So, in that respect, I find it difficult to fully support that movement.

I stand by what I said that All Lives Matter and that we are human beings. And speaking to police, I want African-Americans and everybody else treated decently. I want them treated like human beings. And I also want the police treated like human beings. I don’t want police officers just getting knocked off in the street who haven’t done anything wrong.

Those are innocent lives.

Sherman isn’t the only black athlete to open up to The Undefeated in recent days. Michael Jordan also wrote a piece where he declared he’d be donating $2 million in an attempt to heal community relations between blacks and the police.

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