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 countrys 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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You’re background lacks one critical detail: The manufacturing jobs were leaving the northern cities. I worked with older blacks in the 80s who were bright, productive people - and their adult children were a mess (impacted much more by the job losses in cities). Even today there are some blacks working who pre-date the “Great Society”, and the contrast is night and day with younger ones (even those that are now 50 years old) in terms of work ethic, education, etc.; the welfare state was set up to head off an exodus from those cities as blacks would look elsewhere for work.
Larry Bird was better.
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Magic Johnson was asked, who was the greatest basketball player. His answer was, “Larry Byrd on the ground and Michael Jordan in the air”.
Same effect.
Always liked Michael very much. Good for him for being even-handed.
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