Two hours after sending a tweet that compared African-Americans' decades-long struggle for civil rights to a football team's quest for the Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks apologized Monday afternoon.
"We apologize for poor judgment shown in a tweet sent earlier," the account tweeted at 4:28 p.m. EST, adding "We did not intend to compare football to the civil rights legacy of Dr. King."
We apologize for poor judgment shown in a tweet sent earlier. We did not intend to compare football to the civil rights legacy of Dr. King.
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) January 19, 2015
Hours earlier the account sent a tweet that said, "We shall overcome," with the hashtag #MLKDay, and an Associated Press photo of a weeping Russell Wilson — whose grandfather was a slave to a colonel in the Confederate army, only to be freed after the Civil War — under a quote attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more...
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