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It has been a week since the murder of George Floyd. After speaking with w88 slot players and coaches the last couple of days, I felt it important to share w88 slot feelings.

I have been hesitant to rush to make a comment. I did not want to be reactionary or check the box just to say that I made a statement. I feel that the images of the last couple of weeks have hit w88 slot us to the core.

As a black man, I have seen more than five decades of racism – nearly w88 slot entire life. The recent killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, as appalling and cowardly as they are, are not new events to the black community. These images being caught on tape and broadcast for the world to see have allowed much of the white community to see what black Americans in this country have always known.

As a member of a w88 slot community, with the responsibility of educating and leading young men, I must challenge our political leaders, our religious leaders and all people of influence in our community to “Stand Firm” against this senseless and cowardly injustice once and for all.

I say this for w88 slot players, their families and our recruits, that in this community we will show the courage to stand firm (in the spirit of nonviolence) to this kind of violence and injustice. In every area of life, in our work place in our social spaces, racism and the mistreatment of people cannot be tolerated because of their race, gender or sexual orientation.

I don’t think much of our community understands what it means to be black in this country. Racism has many layers. Like many black children, I was told by w88 slot parents that you have to work twice as hard, and I had to be twice as good to succeed.

I grew up hearing stories of w88 slot grandfather being thrown out of school as a young boy, and the teacher telling him that he didn’t need schooling because he was black. w88 slot mother was told by her high school counselor that she didn’t need to take college prep classes because she wasn’t going to college because she was black. w88 slot father chose to accept a scholarship for football at Wisconsin in 1959 because they were one of the only schools that were playing black quarterbacks at the time. I heard the stories of w88 slot mother not being able to use the bathroom when they were traveling as a young kid because she was “colored.”

The first slave ship came to American soil in 1619 in Jamestown Virginia. w88 slot is estimated that 6 to 7 million African slaves were brought to America to help build this nation. w88 slot wasn’t until April 8^th 1864, over 200 years of slavery later, that the 13^th Amendment was passed to the United States Constitution that abolished slavery. w88 slot wasn’t until 1870 that Congress passed the 15^th Amendment that stated voting rights could not be “denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Since that time, racism has tormented Black Americans in almost every conceivable way, ways that are too numerous to list. Every black American has witnessed the pain it’s caused to our family members throughout the history of our families and our community. It is w88 slot hope that some of the events in the last week will motivate all Americans to have the courage to stand firm (in the spirit of nonviolence) and shine a light on these acts of “violence” and “Injustice”.

In closing, I am an American. I am an African American who cares deeply about w88 slot country and w88 slot community. The images of protest and unrest I see on a nightly basis show me that the devil is alive and well, and right now he is laughing because our differences are dividing our country. I pray to God and challenge all of us when our feet hit the floor in the morning that we “Stand Firm” to violence, racism and injustice in our lives and in our community wherever it lives. Then and only then will we start to see change in our lifetime.