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One white NFL QB: ‘My eyes have been opened’ on social ills, Black Lives Matter movement

By Dave Hyde
Sun Sentinel

Every successful movement has a moment when it goes from social cause to a society’s demands. Maybe if the sports world represents the larger world, the death of George Floyd has come to that moment when an everyman like Ryan Tannehill is in.

“My eyes have been opened to the privilege I’ve lived with my whole life just because of the color of my skin,” Tannehill said in a conference call with Tennessee Titans reporters.

He’s speaking up, he said, “to be true to who I am and support what I know is right,” he said.