Longtime Oklahoma City Thunder big Nick Collison announced Friday that he donated $20,000 to the NCAAP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
The fund provides litigation, advocacy and public education in effort to create racial justice.
The donation is in memory of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and “so many other people whose lives weren’t valued because of the color of their skin,” Collinson said in a tweet.
Floyd was killed by Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as three other officers stood by on May 25. Chauvin was arrested Friday.
Arbery was killed on Feb. 25 in Georgia by two men who thought he was a burglary suspect. The two men were arrested in May after video of the killing went viral.
Collison posted a five-tweet thread to Twitter as part of the announcement of his donation.
Today I donated $20,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the Memory of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many other people whose lives weren’t valued because of the color of their skin. There is a burden carried by men and women of color in our country that I will never feel.
— Nick Collison (@nickcollison4) May 29, 2020
This centuries-old, systemic racism we have in our country will continue to be with us if there are only people of color losing their voices pleading with the rest of us to recognize these problems. These problems are all of our problems.
— Nick Collison (@nickcollison4) May 29, 2020
At the very least stop with the questioning, the defending, the what about-isms. I am so angry and disgusted with so much of what I have seen. I’m worried about our future. I have been inactive for too long. This is what I can do today. Join me and do what you can do today.
— Nick Collison (@nickcollison4) May 29, 2020
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