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On Monday many Instagram/Twitter users, have been flooding social media with images of black squares for “Blackout Tuesday” as a show of solidarity with the black community and protests over racial injustice.
Several NFL teams joined in on the Blackout Tuesday trend including the San Francisco 49ers who posted a black box with “Black Lives Matter” caption.
Black Lives Matter#BlackoutTuesday pic.twitter.com/ewQ7JcKNwu
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) June 2, 2020
Former San Francisco 49ers safety and current free agent Eric Reid took offense to the Niners using the “Blackout Tuesday” hashtag on social media. Reid blasted the team he feels took part in blackballing Colin Kaepernick from the NFL as punishment for taking a knee to protest police brutality during games.
I think you meant Blackball Tuesday…I digress https://t.co/S0r7IHd7DZ
— Eric Reid (@E_Reid35) June 2, 2020
Hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
— Eric Reid (@E_Reid35) June 2, 2020
Reid has been critical of 49ers owner Jed York, who donated money earlier this week to local and national organizations “creating change” within the black community.
Nobody wants your money Jed. We want justice. We’ve always wanted justice. Y’all are truly diluted. https://t.co/wWLEpDF3nt
— Eric Reid (@E_Reid35) May 31, 2020
You speak based on your experience and I understand that. However, I can tell you that you never heard him say “don’t kneel” because you never knelt. He begged me not to kneel. https://t.co/UrNPW3YzOG
— Eric Reid (@E_Reid35) May 31, 2020
Reid wasn’t the only one to call out the Niners for using the Blackout Tuesday black box.
I KNOW you lying! This you? https://t.co/drdD180Eq0 pic.twitter.com/cKMcA6G9qT
— Ronald Isley (@yoyotrav) June 2, 2020
You can’t be serious after how you treated @Kaepernick7
You oppressed a black man kneeling for criminal and social injustice.
We should forever #BlackOut @NFL https://t.co/5eCtFtMsf6
— Ford News (@FordJohnathan5) June 2, 2020
Didn’t he play for y’all ? https://t.co/r9Fc5MfGKr pic.twitter.com/DtduxvPjZE
— Afo (@ifyouwereafo) June 2, 2020
/HEAD TILTS SO FAR IT LITERALLY POPS OFF MY NECK LIKE A PEZ DISPENSER LID https://t.co/se1fIWHGL7
— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) June 2, 2020
Never been more disappointed in my home team. You guys had so much opportunity here…. you had the chance to redeem yourselves… let me fix this post for u real quick https://t.co/ZDmhAHBb5K pic.twitter.com/aPUR4rz994
— JAUZ (@Jauzofficial) June 2, 2020
Cuz I thought someone who had Colin Kaepernick on the team & played a role in having him blackballed said sumn…. https://t.co/I9XWWeQ1zM
— Jordan A. Hayles (@MR_STiXX) June 2, 2020