Terrell Owens June 26 said he experienced racist treatment from coaches while playing for the San Francisco 49ers.

NFL Hall of Famer Owens, who played for the 49ers from 1996-2003, spoke of being raised by his grandmother who grew up in segregation-era Alabama, saying, “I listened to her talk about what it was like to grow up in that time.

Owens said there is “no earthly reason” why black people and people of colour shouldn’t support the Black Lives Matter movement, and spoke of the recent death of George Floyd, as well as the death of unarmed African-American Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia.

And it’s so unfortunate that it has come to George Floyd’s death to really open the eyes of America, because now America sees what it’s like to be a black person or a person of colour in America.”

“You’ve seen it with the recent events of Ahmaud Arbery being shot… These are things that are uncalled for,” said Owens.