Posted on 06/07/2020 3:50:18 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, 71, says hes embarrassed as a white person that a white man could allegedly murder a black man, referencing George Floyd, and suggesting such lynchings are commonplace in 2020 America.
In a strange, counterintuitive sort of way, the best teaching moment of this recent tragedy, I think, was the look on the officers face, Popovich said in a video posted by the Spurs, according to The Associated Press. For white people to see how nonchalant, how casual, just how everyday-going-about-his job, so much so that he could just put his left hand in his pocket, wriggle his knee around a little bit to teach this person some sort of a lesson and that it was his right and his duty to do it, in his mind.
I think Im just embarrassed as a white person to know that that can happen, he continued. To actually watch a lynching. Weve all seen books, and you look in the books and you see black people hanging off of trees. But we just saw it again. I never thought Id see that, with my own eyes, in real time.
Floyd died last week after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-olds neck for over eight minutes during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage. That officer has been charged with second-degree murder.
Its like the neighborhood where you know theres a dangerous corner, and you know that somethings going to happen someday, and nobody does anything, Popovich said. And then a young kid gets killed and a stop sign goes up. Well, without getting too political, weve got a lot of stop signs that need to go up quickly because our country is in trouble. And the basic reason is race.
The NBA coach then told white people that its on us to call out racism.
We have to do it, he said. Black people have been shouldering this burden for 400 years. The only reason this nation has made the progress it has is because of the persistence, patience, and effort of black people. The history of our nation from the very beginning in many ways was a lie, and we continue to this day, mostly black and brown people, to try to make that lie a truth so that it is no longer a lie. And those rights and privileges are enjoyed by people of color, just like we enjoy them. So its got to be us, in my opinion, that speaks truth to power, and call it out, no matter what the consequences. We have to speak. We have to not let anything go.
During the highly political video, Popovich ironically suggested he doesnt want to get too political as he linked alleged unchecked systemic racism to the lack of anti-gun legislation.
Funny how 12 black guys can be surrounded by thousands of white people 82 times a year (140 or so times for the teams that make it all the way to the finals) and nary a one comes away with so much as a scratch from those hateful racist haters.
Pop is an U.S. Air Force Academy grad, who has a well earned reputation of being a hard driving, hard nosed, coach who demands unceasing attention to detail, and a low media/social media profile from his players.
When he team was lead by two hard working, detail oriented players, US Naval Academy graduate David Robinson, and then by the media phobic Tim Duncan, he could make that work.
Now, without a marquee player, much less one who flourishes in his demanding system, it is hard to get free agents to come to a small market, with a hard driving, hard nosed, coach who demands unceasing attention to detail, and a low media/social media profile from his players. You are far from the first to suspect his super wokeness of recent years is motivated at least in part in an attempt to ameliorate his reputation as the sort of coach modern players want no part of.
People still watch these Rich White Liberals and their Toys playing Games??
Maybe you should just hand over all your assets and future earnings and then go hang yourself.
DORK!!!
ENOUGH! Fall down to BAAL...
So, is Obama embarrassed to be a black person every time a black thug kills an elderly white person in a home invasion?
Asshole moron.
You don't say.....
I'm sure that's news to all the white people
Kill yourself Pop.It’s the only solution.
LOL. Good one.
he is embarressing....always has....stupid arrogant man....
You are not alone. I too am embarrassed that you are a White person.
I think Popo’s ‘white shame’ goes back much further than the election of this president.
they become social justice warriors because of the guilt they have over being lucky ...
there we go with the AF academy again....it seems it graduates a whole lot of nothing people....
thx?????
Pop is a great coach. But a lot of people who are superb at one thing are not only not superb at most other things, but often not even average at them.
There was a movie awhile back about a society that had no concept of lying until one man invented it.
For me today is like I’m living in a world where a huge number of people cannot think. They simply cannot reason.
The NBA should fire him. If not I will boycott their games this year, next until he is gone.
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The time for a boycott was years ago. The NBA cannot be fixed.
Put up or shut up!!
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