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Ujiri, in column that was published Sunday by the Globe and Mail, wrote about his reaction to seeing the video of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, dying after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes, even after he stopped moving and pleading for air last Monday.
"So many of you are asking: What can I do? There is a sense of helplessness, but that must not paralyze us," he added."Your voice matters, especially when you are a leader or influential figure, and especially if you are white. Leaders have to be bold enough to state the obvious and call out racism."This week thousands have protested Floyd's death and repeated police killings of black men across the United States.Ujiri said"police have a tough job. But ...
"Growing up outside Minneapolis, I always felt sheltered from racism. That's because I was," Wheeler said in the post."Most people I grew up with looked like me. I never had to be scared when I stopped at a traffic light or saw the police in public. My kids will never know that fear either. Elimimian, who's also the current president of the CFL Players' Association, included with the post a letter he wrote on CFLPA letterhead that outlined his own experience with racism.
Elimimian said his experiences with law enforcement during his college days in Hawaii, and then while living in Canada, was"drastically different" but added he's"not ignorant to the fact that racism exists everywhere."
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