Seahawks' Richard Sherman: 'If black lives matter, they should matter all the time'

The ‘What about black on black violence’ crew just gained a new member – Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman.

The All-Pro began his media availability Wednesday denying rumors he criticized Black Lives Matter in a blog post this week. Sherman insisted he didn’t write the comment, which was posted in response to an image of Sherman and teammate Marshawn Lynch that calls for the killing of “KKKrakas.”

It’s all fake.

But Sherman did speak candidly on his own feelings on the Black Lives Matter movement. And while he said he believes black lives do matter, he also thinks the movement is a bit misguided.

“As a black man I do understand that black lives matter,” he reiterated. “I stand for that, I believe in that wholeheartedly. But I believe that there is a way to go about things and there’s a way to do things. I dealt with a best friend getting killed, and it was by two 35-year-old black men. Wasn’t no police officer involved, wasn’t anybody else involved, and I didn’t hear anybody shouting, ‘Black lives matter.’”

Oh.

Sherman than dropped a line conservatives have long repeated:

“If black lives matter,” he began “then they should matter all of the time.”

Read the full text of Sherman’s remarks below, as transcribed by SB Nation: