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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts) Thu Apr 7, 2016, 10:56 PM Apr 2016

Ray Lewis loud and wrong on Black Lives Matter, crime

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl-news/4701042-ray-lewis-video-black-lives-matter-crime-baltimore-chicago

By David Steele
Published on Apr. 6, 2016

There's a popular, alluring and completely mythical theme that surfaces every time an unarmed black person is killed by police, or if there is a spike in murders in poverty-stricken urban areas, or both. It goes something like this: "If Black Lives Matter, then how come they don't matter when it comes to black-on-black crime?"

The latest famous face to push that theme? None other than Ray Lewis, one of the most popular athletes in the history of Baltimore, which is also one of the most crime-ridden cities that also was thrown into turmoil by a death in police custody.

Lewis now is starring in a video in which he states this myth in, basically, a sermon that decries the surge in murders in Chicago this year while managing to lay the blame on the Black Lives Matter movement that he insists doesn't care about such things.

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Much the way the Seahawks' Richard Sherman was poorly informed last year when he went on a similar vent that singled out Black Lives Matter, foolishly and inaccurately insisting that it cares only about police brutality and not enough about "black on black crime." That to that group — whose members and supporters they may or may not have ever met, spoken to or even researched — the two are mutually exclusive.

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