Al-Farouq Aminu

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1990

Nigerian-American basketball player

Studied at Wake Forest University

basketball player

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

"We have already taken action, as we've had 'I can't breathe shirts'" the 29-year-old told BBC Sport Africa, referring to the stance of players in 2014 following the death or Eric Garner at the hands of police in New York."

"We've seen guys be very vocal about the matters.

"I think what a lot of people forget is that we had a black president, we had a black Attorney General and we had let's say many of the best basketball players in the world are black.

So I don't believe that these gestures are 100% the remedy, obviously it is nice to bring awareness to different things like that but after a while you have to get the job done.

"A dangerous man is one who doesn't care about the consequences.

We have to make sure that the consequences for doing these egregious acts are very high so that people don't even think it's something that they could maybe get away with or even want to consider doing.

I've heard some of those same sentiments and something that I would encourage them to understand is that Nigeria was colonized as well,

So whether that is happening in Nigeria, or happening in Antartica and or on another planet, I think that as human we should always understand that there's no reason to treat each other in an inappropriate way.