Posted on 10/11/2021 10:10:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich attacked Columbus Day on Friday, slamming his “backward” hometown for marking the day while accusing the famed 15th-century explorer of initiating a “new world genocide” and branding Italian-American support for honoring the day akin to Germans “proud of Hitler.”
After the first-ever presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day — which honors Native American peoples — was issued by President Joe Biden on Friday, Popovich praised the move, which has long been pushed by the left, calling it “appropriate, important, needed and all those sorts of things.”
“Columbus?” he asked mockingly. “I mean he initiated a new world genocide; that’s what he did.”
“Beginning with him and what he set in motion, what followed, [was] the annihilation of every indigenous person in Hispaniola, which was Haiti and the Dominican Republic today, that’s what he did,” he continued.
“He took slaves, he mutilated, he murdered, and we’re going to say ‘slash’ and honor him?” he added. In March last year, the outspoken coach attacked then-President Trump over the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, accusing him of being a “coward” because of his COVID policies, yet found himself unable to criticize China for its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong or its long record of human rights abuses.
In 2019, he stated that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick “was very courageous” for starting the NFL anthem-kneeling movement. He also called his protest of the anthem “a very patriotic thing.”
In 2017, in response to then-President Trump denouncing national anthem protests, he called the U.S. “an embarrassment,” adding that white people are privileged and “especially” need to be made “uncomfortable” for any change to be made.
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In August of last year, he heaped praise upon Austin, Texas, after it voted to defund the police, adding that he hoped San Antonio would follow.
Good for him.
Why doesn’t this Son of a ‘Vich move back to Serbia if he has such a problem with European colonization of the Americas???
Some people do not know history before they flap their jaws.
That old goat needs to stfu! How many young girls did he bonk behind his wife’s back. Freaking hypocrite talks about Hitler but he uses girls like they aren’t human.
The NBA is Popovich’s dream job and I’m not talking about the coaching part.
The rumor that Popovich steals his players’ jockstraps for “playtime” is absolutely not true.
Coach Pizza face can take a flying leap.
U.P.O.💩
Pop has become the Rob Reiner of the NBA.
Always condeming and sitting in judgement of others.
He’s jealous. He had only Slobodan Milosovic and George Voinovich to look up to.
Say something outrageous, win a prize.
Strange post.
Nikola Tesla was Serbian.
Popovich: “Columbus?” he asked mockingly. “I mean he initiated a new world genocide; that’s what he did.”
The guy’s a moron - he needs to stick to ‘x’s and ‘o’s - on a good day, that’s about all he can handle.
There is a large parasite that invaded popovochs body and settled in his brain pretty soon popovich will be no more and just the parasite will be talking
Educated at the U.S. Air Force Academy and served on active duty.
I will start watching NBa now just so I can announce I will no longer watch NBA. To hell with the whole American hating lot of them.
Why isn’t he fired like Gruden was for much less incendiary remarks than this guy. If it weren’t for double standards, there would be no standards at all.
As a Caucasian (I think he is), isn’t he part of the problem? Shouldn’t he delete himself, or at least leave the country he hates? Or turn over all his property and wealth to indigenous people? BTW, there are no indigenous people in America. Everyone came from somewhere else. But I’m sure Pops doesn’t know that.
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