Comments Thread For: George Floyd's Family Accepts Mayweather's Offer To Pay For His Funeral

[Citizen Koba]

he saw the name floyd and thought yeah ill do that, great way to get major kudos too since its so high profile, smart guy he is

Sometimes the act is.more important than the motives, man. Ain't heard that anyone else stepped up.

[DaBeastO]

gayweather jr can't afford this that fool is broke.

[ShoulderRoll]

That's a positive gesture from Floyd Mayweather no matter how anyone wants to spin it.

[ShoulderRoll]

Lil' Floyd would not miss the opportunity for cheap publicity.

How much money did you donate to the cause?

[BoxingIsGreat]

I suspect you'd have the sympathy of much of the world if the oppressed ********** in the US were to take matters into their own hands, but to enact true change you're gonna need to get a solid proportion of the white population onside too man... Gonna be a big task cos the systemic racism prevalent in the US has successfully alienated folk of all backgrounds from one another.. as of course was its purpose.

But I'm rambling, maybe this ain't the place.

Either way big props to Floyd for this gesture, would be nice to see other big names committing both their names and their money.

Good post, bro. Enough is enough.

[BoxingIsGreat]

gayweather jr can't afford this that fool is broke.

We need people like you expunged from NSB. Keep going..

[BoxingIsGreat]

gayweather jr can't afford this that fool is broke.

I meant to send you a Red K. By mistake you got Green K. Next time..

[SteveM]

That's hopefully not going to happen. People are mixing up 2 issues here. Systemic racism and racist policing. They need different solutions. Racist policing should be easier to fix, the people need to demand that ********s politicians step up and come up with policies to reform police forces across the nation.

You are wrong. Law enforcement is a system in the US just like the judicial system and the penal system and all three are unfairly bias against black people. The police have their own policies, some that are written and some that are not. It is OBVIOUS after all the deaths of black people by cops that they are following the guidelines of systematic racism just like how they arrest more black people that white people for minor crimes and they get convicted with much harsher sentences than non-**********. This is systematic racism and it starts with the police behavior and the arrests they make right through to the judicial process that is rigged against black people to the penal system which is rigged against black people.

Racist policing will NOT be easy to fix unless the penalties for unjustifiably killing black people are much stiffer. This is policy driven. Unless the policies and laws in place change to seriously punish those guilty parties, racist cops will continue to do what they do.

I think we are agreeing.

You refer to police, justice and prison systems as a system. It is. When I used system I was being even more general including justice, and education. It all needs fixing but when you try to fix everything at once you normally fall short everywhere.

My point is that what has fuelled this outrage is the murder of a black man by a cop. This behaviour needs to be eradicated in 2020 and it's possible by introducing new policies into police forces. Each state and each city needs to be held accountable by local politicians and activists have a role to play by pressuring those politicians.

I'm not confident that Trump or **********s will take this on board now. That's why I mentioned ******** politicians. I've heard ***** and ***** make statements. Where are the rest of them?

[aaronbnb]

This is the correct way to stay relevant. Props to Mayweather. He is a living legend.

[Willy Wanker]

If all these other celebrities cared then the answer Floyd would have gotten when he contacted the family would be "thanks for the offer but its been taken care of"

Its been a week now and not a single one stepped in until Floyd did.

You see NBA player JR Smith's twitter feed, he was all for these riots until it started affecting him, whoa whoa who is ***ing up my cars, this is a residential area he said, theres no businesses around here he said, really so its cool they just trash small businesses and if those working class owners lose everything but you touch his car and now it affects him its different.

Floyd is doing the right thing by paying for the victim's funeral, while other celebrities are too busy spending their money bailing out rioters and looters.