Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald wants people to listen. Fitzgerald wrote an essay in the New York Times on Sunday that focused on Minneapolis, and addressed systemic racism in the United States.
Fitzgerald, who grew up in Minneapolis, reflected on George Floyd’s death. Fitzgerald said it was “yet another example of a systemic problem we have yet to solve. A cancer we are failing to cut out.”
The 36-year-old Fitzgerald then quoted a Martin Luther King Jr. speech in which King says, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” Fitzgerald uses that quote to tell people they aren’t listening to each other.