Former NFL defensive lineman Marcellus Wiley lambasted Black Lives Matter after the group removed a page from its site that rebuked “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure."
“Heard too many people tell me that I was wrong for misinterpreting BLM’s mission statement and I took their words out of context,” Wiley tweeted Monday.
“You were saying??? #factsoverfeelings #apologyaccepted,” he continued with a follow-up video of him denouncing the BLM messaging earlier this year.
Heard too many people tell me that I was wrong for misinterpreting BLM’s mission statement and I took their words out of context🤦🏿♂️
— Marcellus Wiley 🧢 (@marcelluswiley) September 22, 2020
You were saying??? #factsoverfeelings #apologyaccepted😉🤫https://t.co/uuqJdM0BBW… https://t.co/9hSU0Ad39M pic.twitter.com/B3LUiEjqGM
"Seems some have forgotten I navigated from the bottom of this system. I planned & worked to succeed by any means, whether by using my brain or my body! Blessed to be an example of how important a nuclear family is to reaching your full potential. My experience is my expertise," he added.
The former NFL player slammed Black Lives Matter in June for a now-deleted mission statement, which included a rebuke of the "Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”
Black Lives Matter has yet to respond to a request for comment to the Washington Examiner on why it deleted the page.
“Two things: My family structure is so vital[ly] important to me,” Wiley said in June. “Not only the one I grew up in but the one I am trying to create right now. Being a father and a husband — that's my mission in life right now. How do I reconcile that with this mission statement that says, ‘We dismantle the patriarchal practice. We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement,” he said at the time.
“Children from single-parent homes versus two-parent homes: The children from the single-parent homes — this was in 1995 I was reading this. Five times more likely to commit suicide. Six times more likely to be in poverty. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances. Fourteen times more likely to commit rape. Twenty times more likely to end up in prison. And 32 times more likely to run away from home," he said.
“In 2020, white supremacy is the mission,” Wiley said. “That's a lot of digging through minutiae right there. I'm on a show that I'm hosting along with another black guy who is hosting with me, who replaced another black guy — and that's just one example of it. So, I understand. I respect your space. I respect what you're protesting for. But will you respect others who don't support that same protest?”
A Black Lives Matter co-founder pushed a Marxist agenda after the group was founded in 2013, saying members were “trained Marxists.”
“We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk,” Patrisse Cullors said in 2015.
















