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Black lives matter and need to be supported by white voices like Stan Van Gundy and Richard Lapchick | Commentary

For perhaps the first time in many of our lifetimes, we are not only seeing black Americans uniformly speaking out loudly against police brutality and racial injustice, we are seeing all Americans speaking out against it.

We’ve seen thousands of black protesters and thousands of white protesters in more than a 100 different cities standing shoulder to shoulder, holding signs that read, “I Can’t Breathe” …. “Stop Killing Black People” … “No Justice, No Peace.”

In sports, we are seeing black NBA players and white NFL quarterbacks speaking out. We are seeing conservative college football coaches and liberal professional basketball coaches speaking out.