More than 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for a statue of Ray Lewis that sits outside M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, to be removed after the former player knelt during the national anthem.
The petition, which has 74,652 signatures, calls for the statue of the Baltimore Ravens football legend to be removed for Lewis’ refusal to stand for the national anthem and respect the country.
The Ravens player ruffled the feathers of many fans after he chose to kneel during the national anthem and lock arms with his teammates on the field last Sunday.
Lewis’ mother, his friends, and other family members gathered by his statue Saturday to pray and kneel in support of the football player after learning of the petition.
“You can’t erase 17 years of history. You can’t erase two Super Bowls,” said Sunseria “Buffy” Smith, Ray Lewis’ mother. “You can’t erase Ray coming here, going to Johns Hopkins Hospital. He do stuff people don’t even know he do.”
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25 comments:
It needs to go, I hope a rally is scheduled to tear it down.
Take. It. Down.!!!!
“You can’t erase 17 years of history. You can’t erase two Super Bowls,” said Sunseria “Buffy” Smith, Ray Lewis’ mother. “You can’t erase Ray coming here, going to Johns Hopkins Hospital. He do stuff people don’t even know he do.”
And you can't erase 200 years of history by removing Confederate statues. As others have shown you can remove statues that offend others. So Bye Bye Ray.
@9:47 exactly!!!!!!
9:47 Bingo!!
And he do stuff people see on national television, too. I guess poor grammar is Trumps fault, too.
As Warren Buffet said "It can take years to build a reputation and only 5 minutes to ruin it"
He made a conscious effort to disrespect our anthem our country and the Raven's fans.
So, the important question here is: Where do I sign the petition??
9:47... I was thinking that exact same thing.
Her comments are just another example of the blatant hypocrisy of the democratic party.
yes we can. You erased the civil war and its out comes. Tear this thug statue down!
He also plead guilty to obstruction of justice in a murder case. He should have been prison, never played football, and the statue would be a moot point. Really the NFL should have been boycotted years ago by making Murdering Ray Lewis a superhero. He is a POS. Parents who let their children wear his jersey should have been ashamed of themselves. (Sipping my coffee) But that's none of my business.
I agree with the other comments on here if the memorials to the great Generals of the Civil War can be removed because they offend blacks, then the statue of Ray Lewis the murderer must go because it offends the Patriots of this country.
10:25 Change .org
You can erase, just like Ray erased the facts about his part in the killing of human being in Atlanta!
Ray Who?
I signed the petition
You cant erase ghetto speak either!
Take it down I'm offended
9:47.....nailed it !
The did it on foreign soil! No respect at all.
Again another black person that is a murdering criminal. Stupid idiots idolize this criminal thug. I don't care who you are, this thug murdered someone and most of you idiots idolized him. Shame on you.
From a USA Today story in 2013
Only Lewis pleaded guilty in relation to the case: for obstruction of justice, a misdemeanor. He originally was charged with two counts of murder but struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for his testimony against two of his companions that night, Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting.
Lewis never directly linked his two friends to the killings, and they were acquitted. Lewis had testified that Oakley, Sweeting and another man had gone to a sporting goods store the previous day to buy knives. Baker's blood later was found in Lewis' limo. Having fled the crime scene, Lewis told the limo's passengers to "keep their mouths shut." The white suit Lewis was wearing that night — on Super Bowl Sunday — never was found.
"I'm not trying to end my career like this," Lewis said in his hotel that night, according to the testimony of a female passenger in the limo.
He didn't. For his punishment, Lewis received one year of probation and a $250,000 fine by the NFL.
Anonymous said...
“You can’t erase 17 years of history. You can’t erase two Super Bowls,” said Sunseria “Buffy” Smith, Ray Lewis’ mother. “You can’t erase Ray coming here, going to Johns Hopkins Hospital. He do stuff people don’t even know he do.”
And you can't erase 200 years of history by removing Confederate statues. As others have shown you can remove statues that offend others. So Bye Bye Ray.
October 2, 2017 at 9:47 AM
AMEN!!
Anonymous said...
“You can’t erase 17 years of history. You can’t erase two Super Bowls,” said Sunseria “Buffy” Smith, Ray Lewis’ mother. “You can’t erase Ray coming here, going to Johns Hopkins Hospital. He do stuff people don’t even know he do.”
October 2, 2017 at 9:47 AM
Well guess what. "What he do" don't justify stabbing 2 young men to death.
Anonymous said...
I agree with the other comments on here if the memorials to the great Generals of the Civil War can be removed because they offend blacks, then the statue of Ray Lewis the murderer must go because it offends the Patriots of this country.
October 2, 2017 at 11:51 AM
That's correct!
Ray Lewis will never be the man that General Robert E. Lee was! And neither will Jake Day and James Yakahomo.
Anonymous said...
yes we can. You erased the civil war and its out comes. Tear this thug statue down!
October 2, 2017 at 11:05 AM
I would love to see a group of Patriots with balls go there an tear Ray Lewis' statue down just like those Antifa queers did in North Carolina to the Confederate Statue.
Anonymous said...
You can erase, just like Ray erased the facts about his part in the killing of human being in Atlanta!
Ray Who?
October 2, 2017 at 1:03 PM
No that was 2 (TWO) human beings that he stabbed to death in Atlanta.
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