Mark Cuban: White people must have uncomfortable conversations about race

ESPN.COM ^ | June 9, 2020 | Tim MacMahon

[L.A.Justice]

DALLAS -- Mavericks owner Mark Cuban implored people to have honest, uncomfortable conversations about race as a means of helping the country move forward.

Cuban made his comments Tuesday morning at an invitation-only event billed as "Courageous Conversation," a series of discussions about systemic racism and disparities facing the black community. The Mavs franchise organized and hosted the event in Victory Plaza outside the American Airlines Center, recruiting several prominent local officials to take part.

"I need all of us to really open up and talk to each other, even when it's difficult," Cuban said during his brief speech at the beginning of the event. "Even when it's not something we're comfortable with, particularly those of you who look like me, the white people. Because it's hard to discuss race when you're white.

[L.A.Justice]

"The reality is, to be brutally honest, when people talk about white privilege, we get defensive. We all have this mechanism that I call manufactured equivalency to try to protect ourselves. We'll say, 'I have a lot of black friends.' We'll say, 'I grew up in a mixed community, so I'm not like that. I can't possibly be someone who takes advantage of white privilege,' and manufacture this equivalency.

"It's incumbent on us to stop doing that, because that doesn't move us forward when we do that. That's part of having a courageous conversation."

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"Being defensive about white privilege"... Maybe other liberals use that expression...

Mr. Cuban, is it OK to bring up the issue of missing fathers in black neighborhoods? Could a white person bring that issue up? Maybe he will criticize that white person for being "defensive about white privilege"...

[C19fan]

As anyone with half a brain who has followed this the use of the word “conversation” is a lie and a trap. How about these people just be honest and use the nice term “lectured” or if they were 100% honest “harangued”.

[ealgeone]

Or black on black crime?

[Texas Eagle]

Wait. Mark Cuban is white?

[JohnBrowdie]

being lectured to by mark cuban about anything is already uncomfortable.

[thepatriot1]

I love it when they say this.....then when a white person mentions anything even close to having anything to do with race, they get called racist.

[cuban leaf]

I’ve had “conversations about race” since 1963. My country (the US) is founded on protecting the freedom and security of the individual citizen and their progeny, not groups. Race is irrelevant to me. The PERSON is what is relevant.

And there are good people and jerks of all races, sexes and ages.

[dfwgator]

Hey Mark, sell your team to a black man, then I’ll be convinced you’re down with the struggle, ‘til then, STFU!

Also, kick those white basketball players off your team, they are taking jobs away from black people.

[Larry Lucido]

How about STFU?

[tomkat]

             

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Uber-rich imbecile being an Uber-rich imbecile.

[taxcontrol]

And the black community must have an uncomfortable conversation about values and the “thug” culture.

[Cuttnhorse]

The last thing Cuban would want is a REAL conversation about race.
He wants a conversation as long as he can dictate what is allowed and not allowed in the conversation.

He is a jerk.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Mark, why are you a racist? And why do you project your racism on us?

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

Full court press to haul in wayward blacks who have drifted off the plantation to Trump’s side.

Looks like Dems/MSM must really be worried Trump is polling strong in the black community.

Perhaps next cop related black death might need 2 straight weeks of riots/burning/protests with funeral paraded around to all 57 states.

Gotta do something.

[BobL]

“Mavericks owner Mark Cuban implored people to have honest, uncomfortable conversations about race as a means of helping the country move forward.”

Ask Representative Steve King how that went.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Mao called them “Struggle Sessions” and they occurred just before they killed you.

[Texas Eagle]

Okay, Mark. You're a mover and a shaker. Show us how it's done.

Where would you like to start?

[bk1000]

Everything I need to know about race has been learned from experience. I don’t need some virtue signaling billionaire lecturing me on white guilt or “privilege”.

[ConservativeInPA]

No discomfort here. I am white. I am educated. My IQ is through the roof, unlike 99.999% of blacks. (Yes, that is 5-nines.) I work for a living. I am self-made. I’m American. So what’s the problem?