Eminem doesn’t tweet too often but when he does, it’s typically for a good reason — either he’s promoting a new piece of music or raising awareness for various causes.
On Saturday night (September 19), Slim Shady used his massive Twitter platform to shine a light on an essay called “We Can’t Just Stick To Football” written by Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford.
“Proud of Matt for writing this,” he caption the post. “Everyone needs to use their platform to speak out. #BlackLivesMatter.”
In the essay, penned for The Players’ Tribune, Stafford expressed how important it is to address the racial injustice plaguing the United States and implored readers not to get swallowed up by entertainment.
“Yes, this NFL season just kicked off, and nobody is more excited about that than me,” he writes in part. “But we can’t just move on from the issue of racial injustice and use sports as a distraction. We can’t just stick to football. Not as a team. Not as an organization. And we shouldn’t as a country.”
He adds, “Police brutality, white privilege, racism — it’s all real. It’s time we stop pretending, or defending, or just closing our eyes to what’s right in front of us. We have to listen, and we have to keep having these hard conversations.”
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparked a movement in 2016 when he opted to kneel during the National Anthem in the name of police brutality and racial injustice. The gesture ignited a contentious battle between Kaepernick and the National Football League, and he was ultimately fired.
In November 2017, Kaepernick filed a grievance against the NFL and its owners, accusing them of colluding to keep him out of the league. But in February 2019, he withdrew the grievance after reaching a confidential settlement with the NFL.
The movement picked up again after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd, who Stafford mentions in the article.
“Shortly after George Floyd was killed, I was down in Atlanta doing my off-season workouts,” he explains. “It was obviously complicated because of COVID, so I had arranged to use a field where I could do some work with my receivers. The first one who could make it to Atlanta was Danny Amendola.
“Danny and I spent four days working out together. No problems at all. It was great. A week later, I went to do the same thing, at the same field, with four of my black teammates. We were just starting to dump all the footballs out on the field and some of the guys were still stretching when a gentleman came out and told us that we were trespassing — and to leave immediately.”
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Stafford was shocked by how he was treated when in the company of Black players.
“We didn’t even have our cleats on yet,” he continues. “I remember I was standing there in my socks, just kind of stunned and confused, like, What? But he didn’t even want to listen. We were still gathering up the footballs and trying to figure out another spot where we might be able to go when the gentleman pulled out his cellphone. He said, ‘I’m calling the police.’ After everything that we’ve witnessed over the last few months, and how situations can escalate for no reason at all … and here the police are being called.”
Read the full essay here.
gotta distract Lions fans somehow from how bad the Lions are
But Eminem has done zero for BLM except close the shop for twenty four hours on blackout Tuesday ? And stays repeating lyrics about shooting up churches like Dylan roof, raping women and punching down on gays. Confused or disingenuous
Well, BLM has absolutely nothing to do with actually saving black lives. It’s a Marxist organization. They aren’t marching in SXS Chicago against the murder rate, or suggesting decriminalization of drugs and getting rid of mandatory minimus which would get over 500,000 black people out of prison. Strange, right? It’s also weird that they all but disappeared since the last election.
A couple of cuckolds
Please go back to talking about murdering Kim and driving around with her body like “A weekend at Bernie’s” already. America as a whole is sick of multi millionaires that have private security, mansions and chauffeur driven Rolls Royce’s talking about systematic racism and how the black man can’t get a head.
America = white people(to this guy)
you trollz love Em right up until the point he speaks up for black people. predictable really.
I truly feel sorry for your parents
White liberals are the worst
BLM… ride with us or get rode on .. bitch..
Not really. You idiots get shot all the time by people who don’t ride wit you lowlife scum bottom feeding retards.
“We cant just stick to football”??? last season the lions were 2-13 and are already 0-2 this Season. Sticking just to football would be helpful
Actblue. That is all.
Lol the white progressive W hi ggger, Feminem, gave his black player friend the approval he needs to feel special. LOL! White liberals have blacks on dog collars leading them around chanting false narratives and getting youngsters arrested. What a joke. White progressives are using you dummies. Wake the F up. All the $$$$ is going to Joe Biden. Not one cent from BLM has gone to black communities. I bet the three lesbians that “founded” this sham of a group have Rolls Royces. FOOLS.
Well King Crooked pushed him and he made Revival I believe and that weak ass BET verse so now it looks like he’s taking some initiative … If I was Eminem I’d go independent and move my ass to Monte Carlo tax free babay!!!
Look at the number of black people who won at the Emmys. It’s well over the 12% of popualtion they represent. That’s okay though…