Nobody gives a **** if you like it or not. You don't own the player and their not slaves no more. If they want their thoughts to be heard its going to happen. its the new norm with social media. if you don't like it then GTFO. The nba/owners/media has no control over what these players do. We live in a new era. Get fkin use to of it.
I understand where you are coming from and don't necessarily disagree with you. But you are kinda violating your own principle by attacking so coarsely at what he blieves. Let's keep it civil.
It's funny. NBA players are criticized for making political statements that are going to cost them financially. And then ... They are criticized for making political statements that supposedly don't cost them financially.
1. If you're against BLM, what you're saying is that Black lives don't matter. So why were you watching a league with predominantly Black players? And who are you to tell Black folks what they should and shouldn't do? Nobody, that's who. 2. A lot of people are more committed than ever to the NBA as a result of their protest. As Lebron said when Trump said he'd stop watching because players took a knee, "I don't think any of us are going to miss [your] viewership." I surely won't.
And it worked. Everybody needs to shut up about how this wasn't going to make a difference. It already has.
To be fair, one can fully agree that black lives do matter, but not support everything the BLM organization pushes or its underlying Marxist philosophy. There's a difference between the concept of "black lives matter" (which is agreeable to the vast majority of people) and the organization run by some idealogues (which is a far-left group). To say that if you don't support BLM means you don't think black lives matter is like saying that if you don't support MAGA means that you want America to be weak.
I guess you didn't see or hear the Bucks' statement yesterday. They offered concrete suggestions too. The R-led WI legislature has refused for months to do anything about racial injustice in policing and they refused to return to session even after Jacob Blake was shot by a cop 7 times in the back while his 3 children watched. The Bucks demanded they return to session to do something about it. That is a policy suggestion.
I don't disagree with this, but when the NBA and players say "Black Lives Matters" I don't think they are intending that as an endorsement of a particular far-left, "Marxist" platform, but rather as a recognition that systemic racism is a problem in our society and Black lives are not valued as they should be. The solutions to that problem need not be Marxist, whatever that would mean.
There's no such thing as a BLM "organization." It's a movement based on the fact that Black lives have not mattered. To be against that movement is to be against what it stands for, which is that Black lives matter. It's fine to be against Marxism, violence, anarchy, etc. It's not fine to be against BLM, which is an idea not an organization. The only thing BLM means is what it stands for: Black lives matter. The walkout yesterday and the movement in the streets should not be political in any way and it's a shame that it's become that. It's not about right vs. left, it's about right vs. wrong.
