Former Cleveland Browns offensive tackle and seven-time first-team All-Pro Joe Thomas wrote in a Players' Tribune article that it's imperative people become anti-racist in the ongoing fight against social injustice and systemic racism.
Thomas wrote the following in part:
"We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.
"Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect. An antiracist sees more black people in poverty than white people and says, 'There must be something racist going on here'—because without racism there should be no difference in outcomes between races.