Posted on 02/22/2022 2:48:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Enes Kanter Freedom, who was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is newly without a team in the NBA, received a warm welcome from Senators on Capitol Hill at an awards ceremony last week for his continued activism against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses.
When it comes to the NBA, “you can talk about all the social (injustice) happening all around the world. But when it comes to China, you cannot speak up,” Freedom said at a ceremony hosted by advocacy group Committee on Present Danger: China in Washington on Feb. 17. “If you do, then you’d have to face the consequences.”
Freedom was released by the Houston Rockets soon after a trade from the Boston Celtics on Feb. 10. He was one of the highest-rated back-up centers statistically in the NBA, and believes that his activism cost him his career.
“I want to tell you guys that I have no regrets,” said Freedom. There are “more important things besides money and business such as morals, principles, values.”
Freedom added that after learning about all of the persecution and human rights violations committed by the CCP, if he didn’t speak out against it, he would not be able to sleep at night.
Born Enes Kanter in Switzerland on May 20, 1992, before his family moved back to their native Turkey, he changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom upon becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen on Nov. 29, 2021.
The basketball player attracted attention for wearing basketball shoes in NBA games with various works of art to include slogans such as “Free China, Free Tibet,” and “Stop Organ Harvesting in China.”
The China Tribunal, a non-governmental people’s tribunal based in London looking into forced organ harvesting in China, in 2019 found that the CCP had committed crimes against humanity
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The NBA are total a******s
Is he a Republican yet?
This will probably offend someone.
Perhaps Enes has outgrown the need to remain as part of a Ball Team. His views are his own and he has no plans to keep them hidden. He is worth at least $50. Million Dollars and not even 30 years old. Many choices.
He grossed about a hundred million, so he needs not have regrets.
good man. principled man.
He's not qualified. He has a spine.
Enes Kanter Freedom. This is a standup guy.
Not a Republican then.
“Kanter has said that during college he learned English by watching SpongeBob SquarePants and Jersey Shore.”
I didn’t know they spoke English on Jersey Shore.
Anyway, I wish him well.
He’s Swiss born of Turkish parents.
Not sure if either of those countries have Republicans.
I have a high degree of respect for this man. IMHO he would make a great US Marine.
The Celtics traded him to Houston, who released him? Why did you trade him, Boston?
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