NFL star racially profiled and almost arrested for trying to buy gym

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Photo: Kam Chancellor via Instagram

NFL star Kam Chancellor has won a Super Bowl, is an All-Pro talent, and is in the midst of a $28 million contract with the Seattle Seahawks. However, that didn’t exclude him from being racially profiled.


According to his posts on Twitter, Chancellor was seeking to invest in a gym that had recently closed in Redmond, Washington. He began looking inside the building along with four other people. Two female employees apparently became nervous and decided to racially profile Chancellor. Instead of asking for Chancellor’s information and attempting to provide assistance, the women called the police.


When the police arrived, they recognized Chancellor and the situation was solved without incident. Chancellor explained the situation on his Twitter. “They told the cops I was trying to rob the place because I was looking into the glass asking for help. I took a picture of the two employees. Good thing the cops know I’m a good guy and stealing isn’t in my blood. I work for everything I get. I guess I won’t put a gym in Redmond then. I’m not qualified,” he tweeted,

The incident sheds more light on what it means to be a Black person in America. Regardless of the success, financial gains, and professional achievements of Blacks, some people will always only see color. Unconscious racism is a sickening disease that is often more vicious than overt racism. It’s the same sickness that provokes a police officer to kill an unarmed Black person, it’s the same sickness that creates racial disparities when it comes to employment opportunities and education.


The only way America can began to rid itself of the sickness of racism is to cause the act of racism to be unlawful. The women who called police on Chancellor should have been arrested for filing a false report.

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