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Barstool Sports Founder David Portnoy: #BlackoutTuesday ‘Really Doing Nothing’

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Barstool Sports Founder David Portnoy: #BlackoutTuesday ‘Really Doing Nothing’
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Fresh off his hits against the COVID-19 lockdowns, Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy said #BlackoutTuesday, the recent campaign of people plastering black boxes across their social media profiles throughout the day in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, is just an empty symbol that is “doing nothing.”

“Let me be very clear… we have to get to a place in this country where it doesn’t matter the color of your skin,” Portnoy said in a video post. “If you see a police officer walking down the street, you don’t think you’re going to be treated differently because you’re black or white. We have to get there.”

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