Posted on 07/11/2010 7:29:03 PM PDT by erod
esse Jackson criticized Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert on Sunday, saying Gilbert sees LeBron James as a "runaway slave" and that the owner's comments after the free-agent forward decided to join the Miami Heat put the player in danger.
Shortly after James announced his decision last week, Gilbert fired off an incendiary letter to Cleveland's fans, ripping the 25-year-old and promising to deliver a title before James wins one. He called James' decision "cowardly" and later told The Associated Press he believes James quit during a handful of Cavaliers playoff games.
"He has gotten a free pass," Gilbert told the AP in a phone interview late Thursday night. "People have covered up for (James) for way too long. Tonight we saw who he really is."
Jackson said Gilbert's comments were "mean, arrogant and presumptuous."
"He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers," the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. "His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship -- between business partners -- and LeBron honored his contract."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobreakingsports.com ...
LOL, apparently Jesse tried to shake down the Cavs and got rebuffed.
The difference between MLK & JJ is 100%; please?
And why not? LeBron’s window of making the big bucks is getting smaller as he ages. He needs to clean up now.
Jackson is a race baiter who wouldn't have a career if those like him didn't keep the racial tension alive. Perhaps “Mr.” Jackson should mind the splinter in his own eye.......
Everyone here enjoying Obama’s post-racial America?
AMEN to that...and I won’t shed a tear..but maybe throw a party...
it seems Jesse Jackson was very quiet when Dan Rather said Obama “couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic”
why is that Jesse???
The idiotbigot should be stripped and every race baiting card he carries systematically removed....=.=
Jesse Jackson- marked down to $1.99.
I don't think you agree with JJ: you are talking about different things. You claim, correctly, that James is free to go, whereas JJ states that someone views him as a slave. These are two entirely different things.
Not really the reason. It was more an ego decision. See article below. He wants to win a title. Even though he told Cleveland fans a while back that he wasn't a title chaser. A title in Miami isn't going to make him more bucks than a title in Cleveland.
From Salon article:
Cleveland could offer James $30 million more than any team, but that wasn't what interested James this time. He was willing to make less for something else -- a title. Maybe a bunch of them with the 28-year-old Wade and 26-year-old Bosh in their primes.
"It's about a team," James said.
http://www.salon.com/life/story/index.html?story=/mwt/2010/07/09/bkn_lebron_s_decision
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