[ESPN] Ramona suggesting racism in NO towards agent & AD

”Citywide in 2018, 43% of violent crime suspects were black and 40% were Latino, according to LAPD statistics. Experts say this does not justify the disparate search rates, because contraband is found less often on the groups that are searched more often.”

Blacks and Latinos are searched more often because of measurable violent crime rates when compared to Whites or Asians. It’s common sense for an officer to take extra precautions based on statistics. Contraband found differences between races needs further elaboration and citation. I give the article a divide/10

“Demographically, the LAPD closely mirrors the city: 49% of officers are Latino, 10% are black, 31% are white and 10% are Asian, according to department figures.‘
Alrighty. B-but it’s systemic.

 

This is a LeBronesque narrative. Criticism incoming... Assemble media puppets... Create a diversion... Doesn't matter if it is based in truth or not... Twitter will support us.

People are remembering how Davis left the Pelicans. LeBron's people call in a favor or promise to return one. Ramona has to do this or lose future access to LeBron or some Klutch client.

She can later retract, but the damage is done. Klutch Sports is justified.

 

I dont buy it. charged my ass. i would be charged n ima black man. if i was the owner this was a guy demanding out 2 years..not one 2 years out of a contract. I smell this is from ad camp to try to get some pr back. I dont by it. no player had done that. 2 years out. that was a precedent u dont wanna set

 

Wow, a lot sooner than I thought. Doesn't matter. Ramona will be repaid.

 

exactly man. this is misinformation. rewriting history. guy demanded a trade 2 years out to the Lakers like lbj running the pels

 

The lack of accountability for journalists today in all walks of life has become a scourge on our society. We live in the age of hot takes, shitposting, and misinformation, and it's social media and the millions of brainless ****s who are held hostage by it that make the entire thing go. "Journalists" like Ramona and entities like ESPN are just a byproduct of the times.

 

Quite judgememtal. And what would people who have hate and anger in their heart say about you if you’re on tv. I wonder

 

Just like how it was right for Japanese Americans to be interned in detention centers. Or how Muslim Arabs entrance to US was banned in 2017. Who cares about personal dignity and human rights. Sure. Btw does your facts and figures show The hierarchy and breakdown of positions in LAPD? Who’s in charge. Your stats don’t say. Because humans are error free and minds and souls are free from hate and racial bias? Because racism and misattributing bad things to people of color is just a figment of our imagination?

 

Oh my bad. It was totally okay of her to do this.

 

(If James Harden was white he'd have 5 MVPs...)

 

Ramona sounding like someone who is shilling for a specific organization. Such a lazy take to make it about racism. Why can't it be about, maybe, the fact that a single person has such a huge portfolio of mega stars as his clients. The monopoly of collective NBA mega-talents makes tampering a joke. She's setting the stage to explain why Iggy is being held hostage by a majority white organization... cuz you know how them people who listen to country music are really like.

 

Oof. At least the other guy had a better grasp of the story than this. Did you even read what the study was about and why the police are now changing their strategy?

LAPD Chief Michel Moore told The Times that Metro’s vehicle stops have not proven effective, netting about one arrest for every 100 cars stopped, while coming at a tremendous cost to innocent drivers who felt they were being racially profiled.

https://www.latimes.com/california/...-major-changes-to-elite-metropolitan-division

Read it or don't. No need to keep derailing the thread with a separate topic. Just keep that classic phantom debate going in your head where you leave your vanquished foe stuttering, devastated by your facts & logic.

 

The odd thing about this is that the Pelicans fanbase, at least judging by the people in the arena, seems pretty diverse. It's odd for ESPN, a global sports media company, to have Ramona Shelburne, a person so clearly cloistered in Los Angeles, commenting on the NBA and sports, in general. Just be the Lakers/Clippers beat writer and maybe do ESPN Los Angeles local radio. She's completely out of touch with non-LA stuff.

 

I was responding to your derailment article. Why are you linking something else now?

 

This is a feelings word bingo

 

Ramona should be ashamed of herself and her waistline.

She is a hack that makes a living out of her friendship with the Lakers owner.

Remove that equation and the only insider info she would be privy to would be the Weekly promotions at McDonalds before they are rolled out.

 

Good grief. It's not "something else." Both stories (from January and October 8th) are mentioned in the subsequent article (October 13th) linked which is about changes LAPD is making to address the ineffectiveness of Metro's vehicle stops which led to a significant increase overall in black and Latino drivers being stopped/searched.

 

What’s your point? Of course racism is a feeling. Just like how you failed your first test or how you were scolded by your mother or how you didn’t feel you measured up. I’m sure in your life you’ve felt these things. Maybe not. Point is it’s psychological. It’s members of a majority racial group imposing their views on a minority racial group restricting rights and privileges that you may have. Not hard to understand. Maybe for you it is. It is with great insensitivity and a lack of ability to open oneself up to understanding and compassion for individuals from these minority groups that is called ignorance. But I’m sure you’ve never tried to understand. Well hope that clears it up for you now. Later bud.

 

lol Chick-fil-A

She cant hide her excitement.