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"Good evening! Tonight is the celebration of sports, celebrate our accomplishments and our victories. But in this moment of celebration, we have to start this show tonight this way.

The four of us are talking to our fellow athletes with the country watching because we cannot ignore the current realities of the state of America. The events of the past week have put a spotlight on the injustice, distrust, and anger that plague so many of us.

The system is broken, the problems are not new, the violence is not new, and the racial divide definitely is not new. But the urgency to create change is at an all-time high."

"We stand here tonight accepting our role in uniting communities to be the change we need to see. We stand before you as fathers, sons, husbands, brothers, uncles, and in my case, as an African-American man

and the nephew of a police officer who is one of the hundreds of thousands of great officers serving this country. But Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Laquan McDonald, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, this is also our reality.

Generations ago, legends like Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, and Tommy Smith, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown, Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe, and countless others.

They set a model for what athletes should stand for, so we choose to follow in their footsteps."