NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Mahomes, Saquon Barkley and Michael Thomas are amongst higher than a dozen NFL stars who united to send a passionate video message to the league about racial inequality.
The 70-second video changed into launched on social media platforms Thursday night time and involves Odell Beckham Jr., Deshaun Watson, Ezekiel Elliott, Jamal Adams, Stephon Gilmore and DeAndre Hopkins, amongst others.
Thomas, the Current Orleans Saints huge receiver who has led the league in receptions the past two seasons, opens the video with the assertion: “It’s been 10 days since George Floyd changed into brutally murdered.” The avid gamers then seize turns asking the ask, “What if I changed into George Floyd?”
The avid gamers then establish several of the sad ladies and men who have lately been killed, in conjunction with Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Eric Garner.
“I AM George Floyd,” Hopkins says.
Adams follows with: “I AM Breonna Taylor.”
The video closes with the avid gamers insisting they “would possibly perhaps perhaps maybe also no longer be silenced.” They additionally query the NFL mumble that it condemns “racism and the systemic oppression of sad of us. … We, the Nationwide Soccer League, admit irascible in silencing our avid gamers from peacefully protesting. … We, the Nationwide Soccer League, take note sad lives topic.”
