The Truer Words Have Never Been Spoken Award for 2021 goes to...Kwame Brown. 
Posted on 11/27/2021 3:54:48 AM PST by marktwain
Kwame Brown used to be known for his basketball career that many fans remembered because he was one of the worst #1 picks of all time. Brown was a huge target of ridicule and often mocked by fans and even his peers. But recently, deep into his retirement Kwame has decided to speak his mind. He gained numerous followers that listen to Brown views on everyday subjects because of his unique and comic way of explaining things.
The Kyle Rittenhouse case and reactions from the NBA world
One of the controversial and hot topics of discussion lately in US society has been the Kyle Rittenhouse case. Back in the summer of 2020, the 17-year old fatally shot two men and wounded a third during protest and riots caused by the shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse was supposedly defending a car dealership from being vandalized, as this situation divided the nation, especially after the charges got dropped.
Naturally, a lot of important figures from the NBA world reacted to the case. LeBron James was active as always, mocking Rittenhouse for crying in court, while Warriors head coach Steve Kerr shared his concern for the direction in which the country is going. It seemed like most of the NBA world disagreed with how the case ended, but one guy who took the other side was Kwame Brown. Kwame defends Rittenhouse
Like we mentioned before, Kwame is not one to shy away from speaking his mind, often in a very NSFW matter. So Brown suprised everybody and offered his take on the Rittenhouse case. Kwame defended Kyle and criticized the fact everything got politicized because of race:
“That — to me, in my opinion — looked like self-defense. The courts found it as self-defense. The only bad thing is that he had to sit in jail for so long because they made something political that shouldn’t have been political. If you’re going to give the boy the gun charge, give him the damn gun charge, or let the boy out…Instead of that, we want to tie it in to something black. We want to tie it in to something bigger so we can have people come out and march and get checks off a little teenager’s back, and that, to me, is corny. Everything ain’t political, OK?…A bunch of people are getting paid to push this racist sh*t. That’s all it is.”
Kwame Brown, Kwame Brown Bust Life
“A bunch of people are getting paid to push this racist sh*t. That’s all it is.” ~Kwame Brown, 2021
They were all lowlife white people that got killed. Other than a random opinion the media is making a moral expert out of celebrities.
The charge did not “get dropped” he was found NOT GUILTY in court!!!!!!
I could post pages of gun violence but all they talk about is this case. Wonder why?
The Truer Words Have Never Been Spoken Award for 2021 goes to...Kwame Brown.
I love how the first paragraph sets up a hypothesis that a person’s political opinion and overall intelligence is tied to their basketball prowess. Kwame Brown was ‘the worst #1 pick of all time and roundly ridiculed’. That means his political opinion is trash too, apparently.
Reason and rational, critical thought is rare these days. We celebrate Reality instead of the narrative.
Why do the lives of black criminals who insist on resist or fleeing arrest matter? Why do the lives of those who insist on the right to be criminal matter?
Those lives are harmful to America and will never revert to law abiding citizenship?
Hang ‘em high
Honky, AR-15…
The gun charge
The one gun charge was dropped but the rest were not.
This article says CHARGES (plural) were dropped, they were not- he was found not guilty.
The use of “society” as a euphemism for government is cynical, and tends to prevent clear thought precisely as intended. It masks cynicism towards society in conjunction, inherently, with naiveté towards government. I say “inherently” because society and government, Paine shows, are in a very real sense opposites. Cynicism towards either one pretty much corresponds to naiveté towards the other.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.
The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine,Common Sense (1776)Rebellion against the Rittenhouse verdict is rebellion against due process of law in favor of government via propaganda. We wouldn’t need no stinkin’ juries if we would just behave ourselves and submit to government by journalist.
To have a POTUS - a sitting POTUS at that - criticise a jury because of the skin color of the person whose rights it vindicated is chilling. Terrible if the skin color was of a minority - but no less so when the skin color in question correlates with the opposition political party. And indeed that latter fact is the reason for the criticism by the POTUS - a black who was a known Republican would have received similar treatment.
There was also a curfew charge which was dropped.
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