Los Angeles (AFP) - National Basketball Association great Michael Jordan is speaking out on the gun violence heightening racial tensions in America, pledging millions of dollars in pursuit of a solution.
"As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers," Jordan said in a one-page letter released via theundefeated.com, a website backed by ESPN.