Posted on 06/14/2020 6:10:28 PM PDT by Kevin in California
The Los Angeles Lakers have their eye on an NBA championship when the season resumes next month, but center Dwight Howard said the team will have to do it without him. Howard told CNN on Saturday that given the unrest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last month that now is not the time for games. Floyd, like Howard, was African American, and Howard said the black community must put itself first now. "Basketball, or entertainment period, isn’t needed at this moment, and will only be a distraction,” his lengthy statement began. It continued: “I would love nothing more than to win my very first NBA Championship. But the unity of My People would be an even bigger Championship, that’s just too beautiful to pass up. What better time than now for us to be focusing on our families?
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Actually, I would like to see professional basketball and professional football cease operations.
Works for me!
Eric Holder used the term “my people” when he was AG....can you imagine the uproar if Trump did that,referring to white people.
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More good news.
It’s a free country, do what you want.
Think I’ll burn some Dwight Howard basketball cards in public. The problem is, nobody will care.
An Eisenhower you ain’t, Dwight.
Well...,’bye.
Lakers Howard: no basketball at all because we will not partake!
That sport is a magnet for blacks who need to be more into academics. Some blacks think that their culture demands that they get into it. Others have not been educated to do anything else.
+1
OK. That’s just fine by me.
I suspect it’s a matter of time. Like everything else, the Left breaks everything it touches.
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