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Former youth pastor Matt Rowan called kneeling high school players “f*cking n*ggers” and blamed it on his sugar spike.
Matt Rowan is a former youth pastor at First Baptist Church Hulbert, Oklahoma and blamed his co-host for the slurs to multiple media outlets. 
Matt Rowan owns American Lock Shop in Tahlequah, OK.
“Don’t really get all the #BLM stuff?
400 years ago white people enslaved black people.
And sold them.
And treated them as less than human.
For 250 years.
While white men built the country and created its laws and its systems of government.
400 years ago white people enslaved black people.
And sold them.
And treated them as less than human.
For 250 years.
While white men built the country and created its laws and its systems of government.
While 10, 15 generations of white families got to grow, flourish and make choices that could make their lives better.
150 years ago white people "freed" black people from slavery.
But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote.
Or to own land.
150 years ago white people "freed" black people from slavery.
But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote.
Or to own land.
Or to have the same rights as white people. And even erected monuments glorifying people who actively had fought to keep them enslaved.
All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow and accumulate wealth and gain land and get an education.
All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow and accumulate wealth and gain land and get an education.
