NFL star Benjamin Watson, who plays tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, is speaking up against the tragic police shootings of black men in Tulsa and Charlotte.
The Christian athlete believes people's hearts have to be changed for this kind of deaths to end.
However, he is not pinning all his hopes on the next president of the United States to remedy this situation.
"One of the biggest things that we have to be able to do is handle conflict and handle it correctly," Watson tells The Kelly File from Fox News. "[When] we're able to look at our biases, look at our frustrations, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness, it allows us to move forward."
Whenever people divide themselves into groups and look down on others by calling them names and being violent against those who are different, the issue of racism will only get worse, Watson says.
"What we're seeing here in Charlotte is wrong," he says. "There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that, but what we're seeing is a lot of frustration."
The only way America can truly move forward is if the nation has a change of heart, and Watson says there's only one way that can happen — with God's help.
"[President Barack] Obama can't save us. Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton can't save us. Mr. [Donald] Trump can't save us," he says. The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord."
Earlier, Watson said he has changed his mind about America being a Christian nation. As a child, the athlete said it was what he believed. But after seeing the nation indulge in selfishness through abortion and same-sex marriage, he said he could no longer say with confidence that America is a country that stands up for God.
"As I've entered my adult life, becoming more aware and emotionally invested in the trajectory of my homeland, this faulty view has led to my current internal disillusionment with the moral decline of this so-called Christian country," he wrote on his Facebook page.
