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LeBron James had to ‘adjust’ to white people at posh high school
NY Post ^ | August 30, 2018 | Ryan Gaydos, Fox News

Posted on 08/31/2018 4:06:31 PM PDT by conservative98

James, who hosts the show that vows to have “spirited, free-flowing discussions,” attended St. Vincent-St. Mary Catholic School in Akron, Ohio, as a basketball prodigy. He said upon entering school, he didn’t have any desire to talk to any of his white classmates, as he was there to play basketball.

“When I first went to the ninth grade in high school, I was on some ‘I’m not -–---- with white people,’ ” James said. “I was so institutionalized growing up in the ‘hood, it was like, ‘They don’t -–- with us, they don’t want us to succeed.’”

“So I’m like, ‘I’m going to this school to play ball and that’s it. I don’t want nothing to do with white people,’” he said. “That was my initial thoughts and my initial shock to white America, when I was 14 years old, for the first time in my life. It took me a little while to adjust to it.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: akron; lebron; lebronjamesracist; nba; ohio; racist; shutupanddribble; stvincentstmary; whitefolk
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To: God luvs America
That's exactly correct. At my boys' private high school they called them "scholarship" kids which really meant tuition-free. The cost was passed on to the paying parents - mostly, if not all, white.

James is an arrogant, ungrateful POS for not realizing how lucky he was to escape the public school in the 'hood for an opportunity at a good private school, tuition-free.

21 posted on 08/31/2018 4:25:10 PM PDT by 50mm (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . /)
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To: conservative98

Boo frickin hoo.


22 posted on 08/31/2018 4:25:23 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: conservative98
This is a tragic story. Yet it is also story of hope and redemption😀
23 posted on 08/31/2018 4:31:40 PM PDT by Lent
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To: conservative98

St. Vincent-St. Mary seems to have done wonders inculcating standard English.


24 posted on 08/31/2018 4:33:19 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: conservative98

Perfectly normal. To go from one extreme environment to a different extreme would take a period of adjustment for anyone.

Big deal. Completely normal. Culture shock is what it is.


25 posted on 08/31/2018 4:33:42 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; conservative98

26 posted on 08/31/2018 4:36:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: conservative98

“So I’m like, ‘I’m going to this school to play ball and that’s it. I don’t want nothing to do with white people,’” he said.

...

What does the media call a white guy who doesn’t want anything to do with black people?

A racist.


27 posted on 08/31/2018 4:36:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: conservative98
Ah, yes.

Another millionaire "victim".

28 posted on 08/31/2018 4:37:10 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: conservative98

YAWN

29 posted on 08/31/2018 4:38:21 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: conservative98

New LeBron just like old LeBron.


30 posted on 08/31/2018 4:39:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif"> zXSEP5Z, Audt7QO. xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. Xy1wCCJd,)
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To: conservative98

Lebron still hasn’t adjusted to working with white people for the most part. It’s very easy to see his disdain and contempt for any race that is not black. Weaker minds, like Stephen Curry tend to follow Lebron’s lead in rejecting any attempts by this White House to reach out to the black community.
He becomes the mouthpiece of the perpetual Basketball whiner.


31 posted on 08/31/2018 4:42:59 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: conservative98

WHAhhh..!

He hates me and I feel soooo responsible..!

(yuge eye roll)


32 posted on 08/31/2018 4:51:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: conservative98

Tuition last year at St. Mary-St. Vincent was $10,000 and change. That’s substantially less than the average tuition at a DC area Catholic high school. DC, of course, is a very high cost area. Adjusting for thzt, I’d guess that SM-SV is a very typical urban Catholic school. Its tuition is nowhere near “posh” levels.


33 posted on 08/31/2018 4:51:37 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: conservative98

Rhondo Hatton looking mother &^%$#!


34 posted on 08/31/2018 4:51:52 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: conservative98

I’m sorry. I don’t understand why this man’s opinion matters to anybody.

Let me rephrase that honestly, who gives a damn?


35 posted on 08/31/2018 4:52:29 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Moonman62

I would’ve said OJ.


36 posted on 08/31/2018 4:55:03 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: conservative98

Awww...poor thing. FU.


37 posted on 08/31/2018 5:00:16 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: conservative98

I had similar adjustments to make when I moved from Brooklyn to Tennessee. A VERY different culture and environment.
Likewise it took some time for the Professors to get used to me. They’re comments about me inspired my screen name.


38 posted on 08/31/2018 5:01:03 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: conservative98

Oh come on LeBron, ya big baby...

My high school had A black kid too. And just like half the nation did with obama, this kid was untouchable and did what he pleased. Student body president, captain of the football team (even though he wasnt very good), etc...

Yes, every blue moon, some doofuss would make a race joke, but said joker would then get his butt kicked by all the ‘cool’ kids who treated our black classmate like the media treats obama.

The kid never had to lift a finger. Got easy A’s when more capable kids fought hard - and got B-’s.

Lebron, you were that SAME kid. Just like obammy.

..Spoiled brats, who learned how to play - the race card.


39 posted on 08/31/2018 5:01:07 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: conservative98

Instead of focusing on his present financial status, it would be interesting to know how he came to this state of mind. Did friends and family influence him to think this way?


40 posted on 08/31/2018 5:02:18 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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