Posted on 12/02/2022 7:24:36 AM PST by Red Badger
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott responded Thursday to recent remarks from LeBron James about a new revelation that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was present during a racially charged, historic 1957 confrontation between white students and black high school students.
James, the Los Angeles Lakers forward and NBA superstar, chided reporters at a press conference for quizzing him about a recent anti-Semitic scandal involving a former teammate, but not seeking his opinion on Jones. The Washington Post last week revealed that Jones, as a 14-year-old Arkansas schoolboy 65 years ago, was present when a throng of white students tried to block black kids from integrating into their school.
Asked about James’ remarks, Prescott gracefully declined to pile on the owner of the team for which he plays.
“Obviously we can be more empathetic and give grace to one another, regardless of race, from the times we’ve come from to where we are now, thinking about the growth we’ve had,” said Prescott, who grew up in Louisiana and played college football at Mississippi State.
Prescott noted that his mother, who died when Prescott was in college, was white and his father is black, giving him a unique perspective on race relations in America.
“That’s who I am, how I think – optimistic,” he said. “I mean [as] a guy who is completely biracial, black and white, it’s easy for me to speak on race on one side or another,” Prescott said.
The jarring photo unearthed by The Washington Post is “on Jerry to address,” Prescott said. But he said what Jones has done since the photo was taken more than half a century ago is important context.
“In the same sense, it’s 65 years ago and how times have changed,” Prescott said. “I mean, look at the man’s resumé since then, right? As I said, I give grace.”
“I’m here for growth and giving grace and trying to make this world a better place,” he continued. “That’s who I am at my core and what I believe in. Unfortunate things come up from the past, pictures, and they show har far we’ve come, but at the same sense, they’re a reminder of how short of a time that was ago.”
Prescott said he prefers to focus on the progress made since the time of the black and white photo, and again declined to speak for or condemn Jones.
“That wasn’t that long ago that we were all sitting on different sides, and we weren’t together,” Prescott said. “But as I said, I wouldn’t be here if it were still that way. So I believe in grace and change. Those are questions for Jerry, for y’all, honestly, that I don’t have quite the answers for.”
LeBron is a racist multi-millionaire. Zak is a man of grace. When fools like LeBron expose their racist core I am glad there are MEN like Zak to swat the hornets.
Yeah! Especially that kid with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth that looks like he wants to take a swing at that guy.
Well, he’s probably dead from lung cancer....................
I just noticed something. Jerry’s eyes aren’t focused on the action, he’s looking at the TV camera and crew. Even at 14...................................
Typical. LOL
I am wondering how turmoil oriented folks have to be to even go looking for something from 65 years ago in obscure media archives??? What better evidence that the media is manipulating weak minds (like lebron) than this drek?
Is that Shep Smith with the cigarette?
No, he was from Holly Springs, Mississippi, near where I grew up..................Not far off, though!................👍
Fortunately for james, he’s only someone who supports slavery and genocide of Uyghurs, and not a racist.
Dan Synder passed this on %
Is this some sort of J6 “logic.”? That is, being simply photographed there that dat makes you a criminal.
I was once photographed at a Def Leppard concert, i guess that makes me a rock star.
It’s ‘Cancel Culture’. This is the society we now live in.
If you ever, in your entire life upon this planet, ever, ever did anything that goes against the precepts of the Liberal establishment, you are to be CANCELLED and never allowed a moments peace once it becomes known. You will be hounded out of office, out of your career, out of your home and out of your money. Until you are a dried up husk of a carcass found in a back alley of a crack house, with a needle in your arm...............................................
shouldn’t lebron be out playing with his balls or something?
Fascinating photo of what looks like a completely fake and staged event. What is the presstitute at the bottom right up to with what seems to be a script and a black kid. There are more camera crew per sqaure yard than anyone else and the guy with the cigarette looks right out of Hollyweird central casting as ‘a tough’.
It was the Age of James Dean.......................
At least J Jones is not a current house nagger of Chinas Xi.
“gracefully declined”
*sigh* English.
I think you mean, “GRACIOUSLY”.
He should be happy.
Jones took a knee with his whole team the other year.
Disgusting.
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