Posted on 04/09/2019 10:25:40 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
LeBron James, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony are among the NBA stars who have been outspoken about racism and social injustice in recent years. Never forgotten will be their speech before the 2016 ESPYS telling the worldwide audience, “Enough is enough.” The common denominator among those four men, of course, is they are African American. And currently more than 75 percent of the NBA’s players are black.
Korver speaking out about white privilege while playing in front of largely white audiences, however, speaks louder than James, Paul, Wade and Anthony combined. It resonates because it’s rare to hear from white athletes acknowledging racism and the pain their black teammates go through.
To the new left--black NBA players who make more in one year than most whites make in their lifetime are "victims" we all need to feel sorry for.
When I think of basketball, I think of prison yards.
This coming from a group of individuals (NBA players) who, for the most part, have been pampered and given special privileges since at least back to high school.
Kyle Korver - a cuckold trying to fit in with his African American masters.
I stopped watching when Larry Bird retired.
Larry Bird retired?????.........................
He was so great. :)
Well, before you know it Wayne Gretzky will be retired!..................
No! :)
Basketbarf...
Yep they are adored, they go to the best schools for free and then they make millions. But to a modern leftist white Appalachian coalminers have "white privilege" and black NBA millionaires are "victims"
That’s the real sad thing. If the NYPD had broken my leg, and arrested me for no wrong doing, I would NOT be getting a $4,000,000 check from the taxpayers of NYC. I would more than likely still be in jail, because I am not of the privileged class of actors, athletes, or politicians.
Regardless of the paint job of my skin.
Well we're seeing it in the presidential race too. White male candidate having to apologize for being white. No surprise its happening in the NBA as well.
This is our culture thanks to the modern left--A racial caste system where whites increasingly need to apologize for their skin color.
Whenever I hear “white privilege”, my attention immediately shuts down.
Ditto. The only “white privilege” in the modern Western nations is what used to be called “the white man’s burden”.
What we live in is an Alice-in-Wonderland world. The NBA being racist against blacks....are they serious?
And whatever negatives Japan may have, I applaud them for not allowing themselves to be blackmailed into Japanese genocide. I’d love to know how they’ve gotten away with it, I suspect it’s because they’re not white. Russia and the eastern European nations have certainly come under fire for trying to maintain their white Christian heritage.
How much crap are white people going to take...I mean, really? This is ridiculous.
Black celebrity privilege is thousands times more powerful than so called white privilege. Look what it did for OJ and Smollett.
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