Posted on 12/09/2014 4:24:53 PM PST by bestintxas
Several players on both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets, including LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Kyrie Irving and Deron Williams, wore black "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts during pregame warm-ups Monday, following in the footsteps of Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose who wore the same shirt in a game Saturday to show support for the family of Eric Garner.
Of his T-shirt, LeBron James said: "It's not a Cavs thing. It's a worldly thing."
"It's not a Cavs thing," James said before the game. "It's a worldly thing."
On several occasions in the past couple weeks, James has spoken out about the deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Tamir Rice in Cleveland. Like Garner, Brown and Rice were both African-American males that died because of a confrontation with a police officer.
"It's just for us to make a [statement] to understand what we're going through as a society," James said when asked about the T-shirt. "I've been quoted over and over about what's going on as far as it's more of a notion to the family, more than anything. Obviously, as a society we have to do better. We have to be better for one another. It doesn't matter what race you are. It's more of a shout out to the family more than anything, because they're the ones that should be getting all the energy and effort."
James told reporters on Sunday he was "looking for" a T-shirt like the one Rose wore. Nets guard Jarrett Jack heard James' comments and supplied the shirts for players on both teams to wear.
"The power of social media," James said.
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No wonder we have black thugs getting killed on the streets.
Drudge has a story on how these rich players get away with paying little taxes and therefore shift the tax burden onto the middle class.
I say boycott sports, these morons support criminals and their anti social behavior.
Ignorant LEBRON just passes along the lies, hates the cops and white people who pay his inflated salary.
Does the NBA or his team owner have a problem with the tee shirt?
Yes. According to the professionally made ones I've seen, the *correct* spelling is "I can't breath".
Those pathetically spoiled brats (who hate the cops and white people who pay his inflated salary) have NO IDEA what life here would be withOUT the "thin blue line."
Well you would have is Africa, all countries south of our border and most of Asia. That does leave North America (north of Mexico), Europe, Japan and Australia. No surprises there.
Don't hold your "breathe" waiting for a correction. :o)
Doesn’t NFL operate as a non-profit...
Corporate Welfare???
How about NBA...are we all being taxed for Circuses to entertain the Masses?
Perhaps if the “professional” sports teams paid their “fair share” ( ; ) there would be less to pay ignorant thugs to play a game that I do not watch.
Corporate Welfare??? I could be wrong.
Perhaps someone will inform us as to the facts.
Maybe they can’t breathe but they sure as hell can earn - from those brain dead honkies who watch them in the field - and lay out a fortune to do so.
Won’t be long before the kids will be asking mom and pop to buy them the $250 dollar Lebron James model “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirt for Christmas.
Negroes have one overriding consideration: protection of the tribe.
There is no objective truth; race is everything.
Nothing says white privilege like millionaires who play a game for a living pleading victimhood.
According to Merriam-Webster, “breathe” IS correct.
Excuse me, but anyone who says repeatedly that they “can’t breathe” can indeed breathe. One who is fully deprive of oxygen is not able to breathe, but they also cannot talk continuously as Garner was doing.
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