Georgia Republican Senator and Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler is against the league's plan to support the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Loeffler reportedly wrote a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert on Tuesday, asking her to put American flags on warmup jerseys instead of "Black Lives Matter" and "Say Her Name." The reason? Loeffler wrote that supporting a “particular political agenda undermines the potential of the sport and sends a message of exclusion."
"The truth is, we need less — not more politics in sports," Loeffler wrote, via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "In a time when polarizing politics is as divisive as ever, sports has the power to be a unifying antidote. And now more than ever, we should be united in our goal to remove politics from sports."
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