Posted on 07/25/2016 9:33:14 AM PDT by God luvs America
Michael Jordan, widely considered the greatest basketball player in NBA history and the lone African-American majority owner of a franchise, has decided to speak out on the country’s growing racial and social unrest.
“As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers,” Jordan writes in a one-page letter released exclusively to The Undefeated. “I grieve with the families who have lost loved ones, as I know their pain all too well.”
He used the letter to also announce grants of $1 million each to two organizations working to build trust between law enforcement and the communities in which they work: the Institute for Community-Police Relations, which was launched in May by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which was established in 1940 to work through the legal system to push for civil rights. It became a separate organization from the NAACP in 1957.
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AS Jordan said years ago, “Republicans buy sneakers too”
Agreed, Michael knows that Republicans buy tickets to basketball games, as well as his shoes.
This does nothing to address the root cause. My guess is that Jordan was pressured by leftist groups to do something and this is the sad, predictable result.
My. Such doom and gloom. Wait till the Bath House hears about this. Preezy Obola will call Jordan out.
But deaths by other blacks, perhaps, not so much.
It’s a dark letter!
They'll go all Hitler-sh*t on Jordan.
I lost my book mark for my safe place on the net dammit
Larry Bird was better.
The United Center never would have sold out without law enforcement on hand to protect fans coming and going.
This does nothing to address the root cause. My guess is that Jordan was pressured by leftist groups to do something and this is the sad, predictable result.
Half credit. For full credit he should also be addressing black on black crime. Some might actually listen to him.
A six word speech would have gone further than anything these celebs do:
Michael Brown deserved to get shot.
what was the race of the person who killed his father?
In the 40s and 50s the negro population of the rural impoverished and in places third-world-like south began to move North to the industrial areas that were needing workers. They were learning skills and some had the spark of the entrepreneur in them and struckout on their own. In short they had become the latest wave of immigrants and they were progressing as did the earlier waves from Italy and Ireland et al. Their economic conditions were rising and they were building families and homes. They were on their way to the Great American Middle Class. Then along came Lyndon Baines Johnson who showered money on them on condition that they do no work and do not marry. The rest is history. The Immigrant wave was shunted off into the ghetto-camps of the Welfare State, their progress aborted. People who are raised to welfare are not inactive. The girls get pregnant early and without any husband because that would diminish their welfare income. The boys, as they grow into men and unsatisfied with the welfare money strike out in the entrepreneurial path of the uneducated un moraled and setup businesses buying and selling drugs and women.
Not even half credit, only 25% for me.
He only address that he’s deeply troubled by the police shooting of blacks, he never mentioned the lies that started BLM movement. He wanted to play it safe, and not addressing real problems at all. So only lukewarm response from me.
Donating money to both NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the International Association of Chiefs of Police is nice, but it is like giving 50 bucks to both DNC and RNC. Hedging his bets, so neither left nor right side could criticize him.
Why are blacks so greedy that money is always the answer to their woes?
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