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Former NFL player and “Speak for Yourself” sports commentator Marcellus Wiley slammed critics who told him he was “wrong for misinterpreting” the mission of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after BLM removed a page from its website critical of the “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 out on Monday. “You were saying???” he wrote, adding the hashtags “#factsoverfeelings #apologyaccepted.” He also posted a video of him blasting BLM’s now-deleted “mission statement” against the nuclear family.

ESPN reported this week that the NBA plans to paint "Black Lives Matter" on its courts when the season resumes, in reaction to players' insistence "that the fight for racial equality and social justice be a central part" of the league. But Fox Sports 1's Marcellus Wiley says that is "not a good idea," and gave an impassioned speech on his show explaining why. "Children from single parent homes versus two parent homes: The children from the single parent homes (this was in 1995 I was reading this) [are] five times more likely to commit suicide. Six times more likely...