Protests in major cities across the country sparked by the killing of George Floyd have continued to pop up over the last few days. Floyd, a black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer put his knee into his neck for over eight minutes.
As more people have begun to take to the streets, more athletes and celebrities are lending their voices and resources to those people in an effort to support their clause and accentuate their plight.
One of those athletes has been San Jose Sharks winger Evander Kane. Kane has always been vocal about the mistreatment of black people, but he’s been particularly active on social media and different platforms since Floyd’s killing.
And now, he’s calling on other white athletes to join him.
In an appearance on First Take on Friday, Kane said he hopes that more athletes who aren’t people of color to speak out about these injustices across the country.
“We need so many more athletes that don’t look like me speaking out about this, having the same amount of outrage that I have inside. And using that to voice their opinion, to voice their frustration. Because that’s the only way it’s going to change. We’ve been outraged for hundreds of years and nothing’s changed. It’s time for guys like Tom Brady and Sidney Crosby and those type of figures to speak up about what is right and, clearly in this case, what is unbelievably wrong. Because that’s the only way we’re going to actually create, unify anger to create that necessary change. Especially when you talk about systematic racism.”
