Loeffler, who is co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, wrote a letter objecting to the WNBA's support of Black Lives Matter.
, wrote to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert on Tuesday requesting that American flags be placed on warmup jerseys instead of the originally intended “Black Lives Matter” and “Say Her Name,” a reference to Breonna Taylor and other Black women killed by police.
Loeffler said she was “incredibly disappointed to read about efforts to insert a political platform into the league,” according to a copy of the letter obtained“I adamantly oppose the Black Lives Matter movement,” Loeffler wrote, conflating its goals to end systemic racism and remove Confederate monuments with the general destruction of property and violence. “All of us have a constitutional right to hold and to express our views.
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