Posted on 06/07/2020 3:50:18 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, 71, says he’s “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 officer’s 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 I’m just embarrassed as a white person to know that that can happen,” he continued. “To actually watch a lynching. We’ve 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 I’d see that, with my own eyes, in real time.”
Floyd died last week after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for over eight minutes during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage. That officer has been charged with second-degree murder.
“It’s like the neighborhood where you know there’s a dangerous corner, and you know that something’s 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, we’ve 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 it’s “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 it’s 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 doesn’t want to “get too political” as he linked alleged unchecked systemic racism to the lack of anti-gun legislation.
Are there no cry rooms in San Antonio, Gregg?
Says the rich white guy who yells at other rich black guys telling them when to pass a ball..gee Gregg you sound like a slave owner, now bow down and kiss some black feet
He deserves a much more strenuous struggle session before BLM offs him.
Popovich ironically suggested he doesn’t want to “get too political” as he linked alleged unchecked systemic racism to the lack of anti-gun legislation.
This clown isn’t emotional, he is unstable.
Popovich is nohting more than a far left Leftist. I suggest if he is so upset and embarrassed at being a white person, maybe he should put himself out of his misery — and the rest of us won’t have to listen to his loud mouth leftist ideology.
Wow...I feel like I woke up in an alternate reality. What is wrong with these grovelers??
Perhaps the least coherent rant ever.
Strange though to see a white man who’ s career has been as the MASTER of an NBA PLANTATION, where he has spent 20 years ordering BLACK players to do his bidding, confess to such self hatred.
Pop should quit and return all the money he has made off of the sweat of the black man’s brow and lynch himself. Why live with so much guilt.
Is he alembarrassed that he is much more likely to be murdered by a black man also?
Or is he a submissive searching for his Dom?
They are GIRLY MEN!!!
He's just an embarrassment. Period.
He could copy PM Justin Trudeau or Gov Bill Northam and put on “black face” makeup.
You only have one choice ,Blackface
One more reason to ditch pro sports. Who needs these people?
He’s not so embarrassed that he’d step aside for a qualified black coach. Instead of empty virtue signaling, he should be hard at work failing to win another championship.
Gregg...there’s clearly only one decent option available to you.A nice sturdy rope!
Another idiot. This parade is getting pretty long. Good thing I am retired my mouth would get me fired.
for those of you watching nascar..bubba wallace..part black..just had some kind of attack on air..first was light headed and sort of passed out
was being interviewed about the silence in the beginning and acted like he was having a stroke
hope he is okay
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