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Richard Sherman is down with #BlackLivesMatter, but …

But I also think that there’s a way to go about things, and there’s a way to do things.

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The Seahawks have changed that this week, though, thanks to the open and honest discussions that a couple of their players have had about the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Black Lives Matter movement traces its roots to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012, and gained national ground after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer. Sanders was also obviously frustrated when he was interrupted by Black Lives Matter activists this summer, and many bristled when his campaign responded by chanting “We stand together” in response.

While agreeing with aspects of what was falsely posted under his name, Sherman’s contention was all lives should matter.

A white muralist from Miami is expressing his support for the “Black Lives Matter” movement one word at a time on a Detroit art gallery exterior wall.

With that said and, as intelligent as he comes off, I’m not with him on this one.

“Everybody, I’m going to shut down this TV show and go to a test pattern unless people behave themselves and behave civilly”.

Black Lives Matter as a network will not, does not, has not, ain’t going to endorse any candidates”, she told the news service. I mean we do have black elements in our community we would probably consider thugs, so using Richards logic we have to clean up the Thugs first before we worry about what other people call us.

“All lives matter wouldn’t deal with 15 Blacks transgender have been killed in recent years”, she said. You should never let somebody get killed – that’s somebody’s son, that’s somebody’s brother, that’s somebody’s friend. “It’s not always advertising and marketing for these companies and sometimes it’s standing for what you believe in and speaking on what you believe in”, Sherman said. It just makes me think that he’s missing the point of the movement.

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“I think it’s an important message to get out there to kids, especially while you have the platform”. I think the police officers we have right now – you know, some of it is being brought to light, because of video cameras, everybody has a camera phone. So, you know, before we’re black, white, Asian, Polynesian, Latino – we’re humans. I think people realize that, at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. So, it’s up to us to stop it. Thank you.

Members of the Black Women's Rountable hold a forum on the power of African American women at the polls at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference on Wednesday Sept. 16 2015 in Washington. The Black Lives Matter network