ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Anquan Boldin didn’t decide overnight he was
going to quit football in order to speak out against longstanding
concerns over inequality in America.
The recent deadly and racially charged
conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, did, however, become the tipping
point that caused Boldin to reassess his priorities and led to the
Buffalo Bills receiver’s decision to retire after 14 NFL seasons.
“I think anybody with any sense can see how
divided we are as a country, and Charlottesville only magnified what we
were already seeing,” Boldin told The Associated Press by phone Monday.
He
was disturbed by the hateful messages directed at African-Americans,
Jewish people and the LGBT community during a rally involving neo-Nazis
and other right-wing groups in which a counter-protester was killed and
two Virginia state police officers died on Aug. 13.
“That’s not the America that I want to live
in,” he said. “And I think the only way that this America changes is
that we as a people stand up and change it.”
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