Former Buffalo Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander has joined the conversation about social injustice and discrimination sparked by the death of George Floyd last May.
The 37-year old wrote a piece for The Athletic to share his thoughts on everything going on in America and the world.
Lorenzo Alexander (@onemangang97) shares his thoughts on the events happening in America after the death of George Floyd. (via @TheAthletic) https://t.co/w3YeScs8ge pic.twitter.com/BPPlY65qx6
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“I thought I was OK.” the former Bills Prow-Bowler wrote. “I thought I had gone through the mental acrobatics of trying to process what I witnessed on social media last month: A police officer killing a Black man named George Floyd. I have seen and heard this story many times. It is something many people who look like me and come from neighborhoods like mine in Oakland have come to expect, another landmine we hope to never accidentally step on.”
Lorenzo Alexander went on to discuss the battles he has been going through the past few weeks — internally and externally. He shared how much fear he felt when his eldest son was yet to come home while riding his bicycle and how scared he was that something might have happened to him.
Alexander, who retired after the Bills 2019 campaign, further questioned the real issues the world is facing right now. He noted that he had difficult conversations with friends and family over the past few weeks.
“But before we move forward, we need to come to grips with our ugly past and acknowledge that the system is not broken, but working as it should, which is to oppress the Black community. The point isn’t to make White people feel bad, but for them to better understand why there is an outcry for why Black lives need to matter, too,” he explained.
Alexander announced his retirement after 15 long seasons in the NFL. He was also named as the Bills' nominee for the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year Award for his final three seasons in Buffalo.
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