Richard Sherman - why trump won

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RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman didn't seem impressed with an apology from Kaela Carpenter, wife of Buffalo Bills kicker Dan Carpenter, over her tweet during Monday's night game that Sherman should be castrated.

"It's not surprising at all," Sherman said Wednesday. "This is a day and age, you've got the Ku Klux Klan running around. People say whatever they want, and there's very little consequence. For her to say something like that and then have a B.S. apology like she did, it's just the way of the world. I don't let it bother me. It's something I'm very used to. It's just the way people are, the way people were raised."

Kaela Carpenter tweeted Monday night that Sherman should be castrated for a hit on her husband during a field goal attempt. Sherman's reaction on Twitter on Tuesday morning seemed to laugh it off.

"It's more disappointing than anything," Sherman said Wednesday. "But it's also something that's understandable. Ignorance has always been in this world. The core of this country has been built off of slavery and people owning people. So any time you understand that's the core principles of the way the nation is built, then you've got to have some kind of sympathy for it."

Sherman, who has two children, was asked if he has to shield his family from any of the comments he gets on social media.

"My son's too young to understand it, but I don't shield myself from it," Sherman said. "I'm sure if she came up, trying to execute the actions that she said she would, I'm sure my family would have something to say about that."

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