that's what bothers me about farm and
the reason i just i want to make that
clear
is because what i'm who i'm going to
pivot to is lebron james
because i'm not about to sit up here and
tell lebron james
to stick to sports i just want to speak
to the people to whom
he threw an alley-oop yesterday
or actually more precisely
he turned the ball over because lebron
james is very much
he's the sports equivalent of maxine
waters
for republicans in right-wing media
and racist lebron james is like oh snap
lebron james said something oh
dive right in let's go let's jump on
this and what he did was give them what
they were looking for
which was not that they needed it
because they would have done it anyway
but he gave people on the right
and ironically the right but he gave
racists
their opening to pivot away from the
aforementioned
derek chavin verdict to pivot away from
george floyd
and now we can talk about
lebron james rushing the judgment on the
shooting
of mikaya bryant now
in case you missed it and there's no way
you could because uh you know he was
trending
he posted a tweet last night with the
officer officer reardon i believe his
name is
uh right the officer who shot makai
bryant four times in the chest and
killed her in columbus ohio on tuesday
um
and he posted a tweet that said you're
next
with a picture of the officer
he later deleted that tweet and
attempted to explain himself
and what i've come to realize michael
is that kumbaya
is the official anthem for racists
because what never ceases to amaze me
is that the people who scream the most
about
unity and togetherness
are racist or worst neutral
because as we both know lukewarm
understanding
is far more frustrating than outright
rejection
all right so lebron says he took the
tweet down
because it was being used to create more
hate
the people who are using his words and
twisting his words
were never on his side to begin with
they were never they would never seen it
from his perspective to begin with
nobody objective or on the side of
right not just right michael but
righteousness
nobody looked at that picture
of officer reardon where he said you're
next and thought that he was inciting
violence
okay when he said you're next he was
talking about the same kind of
accountability
that derek chalvin just thankfully
got in minneapolis he said you're next
to be shot or killed or beaten or are we
coming for you
he said you're next in any reasonable or
objective
person knows exactly what lebron james
meant so you may be saying wait a second
not you michael but you may be saying
well wait a second he rushed to judgment
okay
yeah he rushed to judgment he rushed to
judgment
maybe because it seems like what officer
reardon did was legally justifiable
but instead of condemning lebron james
which again the same people who are
condemning him
already look at it probably more in line
with the way brett favre
looks at it but instead of condemning
lebron james
for so-called rushing the judgment why
don't you take the time to understand
that lebron james the people who look
like lebron james
offer not only on the receiving end of a
rush to judgment
but court is literally being held in the
street when police
when it comes to unarmed black people
far too frequently
not only rush to judgment but trial
conviction
sentencing and execution so if you want
to talk about rush to judgment that's
exactly what george floyd died at the
hands of
was derek chavin and his fellow cohorts
and colleagues
rushed to judgment so
to say oh you know lebron get your facts
straight
well if you're really about this unity
thing if you're really about bringing
people together
come on take the time to understand
where lebron's frustration
and his inclination to make an
assumption comes from
because it never ceases to amaze how
they can always figure out a way
to not kill white people even if they're
taking their baton and using it against
them
running away with them hanging off the
side of a truck hitting them with a
hammer
carrying an ak-47 having committed mass
murder cussing them out
threatening them whatever it is yeah
there's always no alternative but to
kill us
but when it comes to them it's like oh
well
you know we'll take them alive whatever
whatever
it takes we they take they take the
proper caution like look mikaya bryan
i'm not condoning what mikaya bryant was
doing and i
i know she had a knife and it was i'm
not i'm not even judging that situation
but what i am saying is how come he
couldn't mistake his taser for his gun
for his taser in that moment oh i don't
know
how commit that never seems to go any
other way
with us other than ending in death and
michael i know you've been dealing with
this your entire career because you've
been doing this longer than me
because you won't talk about like tense
the thing that pisses me off
to the height of passivity as we used to
say is
for 20 years i've been hearing oh you're
part of the problem
you know you're part of the problem
you're sowing divisions they said to
lebron last night
you're sowing division or you're part of
the problem all you talk about is race
you're part of the problem no racism is
the problem
i'm not part of the problem for talking
about racism racism is a problem
systemic institutional racism is a
problem not the people who draw
attention to it
lebron james ain't so in division says
the people
who elected the divider in chief thank
you
the same people who are talking about
lebron james is so in division
and you're driving you're you're causing
you're you're driving us apart
they're trump supporters 99 of the time
what are you talking about yeah so it's
the hypocrisy of it
that bothers me could lebron could
lebron
have waited for the facts perhaps he
could have
perhaps he should have but far too often
we don't get that privilege
we don't even get to stand a fair trial
far too often
not to mention as we pointed out
yesterday many have pointed out in the
aftermath of the show of inverted
michael
is the so-called facts oftentimes are
lies
lies with with with police department
from on a police department letterhead
so miss me with the oh wait for the
facts
or see lebron you know you're the
problem no
the problem is the very thing that is
frustrating lebron james frustrating you
michael holly frustrated me and has
frustrated our community for decades and
centuries
and so the people talking about unity
they really they ain't trying to take a
step toward us
they ain't trying to understand us
they're using lebron james
as as red meat for right wing media for
likes and clicks and retweets
and all he did was throw him alley well
listen
mike a couple things a couple things
and i'll be out of your way number one
you said lebron james turned the ball
over yeah he turned the ball over
it wasn't out loop it was a turnover but
let me tell you what kind of turnover it
was
it was not a turnover where he kind of
bounced the ball off his leg and it went
out of bounds
or he lost control of it you'll keep
rolling with us
behind the back pass the reason it was
an inexcusable turnover because lebron
james
tried to play basketball with somebody
who wasn't on his team
he threw the ball to somebody who was
not on his team
you can't have a conversation
with somebody who's already got an
answer in their heads
they're not gonna engage you they've got
talking points that's what i said mike
i'm telling you
i'm an easy person to talk to i have to
say i'm pretty easy person to talk to
because you know one thing i'll do i'll
talk to anybody
i love talking to people i love it it's
it's it's part of the reason i do what i
do i love talking to people
but i cannot talk to people who have
these robotic answers and talking points
and if you've got talking points i can't
get with you
so if you're telling me i've said i've
said
repeatedly my humanity is not a subject
of discussion
right it's not even up for discussion if
it's not even
the conversation the conversations i
think the way
the way i visualize them is fluid
they're fluid they're shapeless
so you i bring everything that i am all
of my experiences
as a black man in america husband father
son cousin brother all that stuff
journalist
author i bring all my experiences
into a conversation and you bring all of
yours into the conversation
and it's fluid there and then as we go
back and forth
we shape some some some masterpiece some
work of art
that's the conversation at its best but
we can't really
engage if i come in and i say i'm going
to say this regardless
and the other person says i'm going to
say this regardless so for example
i'm going to say that the election was
stolen regardless
uh i i'm going to say i'm going to i'm
going to get a snowflake line in there
i'm gonna i'm gonna say uh black lives
matter is an aggressive
organization it's terroristic whatever
i'm gonna put all that stuff in there
and no matter what you say i'm just
gonna go back to home base
okay i can't have a conversation with
somebody like that and lebron james
should have known better that you can i
don't know
it's not showing angers they're already
angry
well right exactly but i don't think and
just to be fair i don't think lebron
was doing that uh for purposes of
finally stoking or sparking conversation
he's deleting the delete part oh okay
okay not not the post oh you mean
oh you mean the delete okay fair enough
no i got you i got you everything
why even giving them legitimacy that's
one yeah here's the other one
well maybe he deleted it maybe maybe he
delayed it before he moved on to other
things maybe he deleted it
because as he gained more information
as more video came out as more
perspective of the shooting came out
it didn't look like he assumed and so
many of us
assumed that it went down and all i
would say to that don't lose your
thought michael all i would say to that
is
okay cool like again he rushed to
judgment
but understand that rush to judgment
okay
if that if if that's how it if it
normally goes the other way or far more
often
than people want to acknowledge it goes
the other way where it isn't a justified
shooting and even in this case it's okay
to question whether the officer had to
use four shots
to the chest lethal force it's okay to
question
whether or not that that should be the
way that they're trained
yeah but okay let's say this is
justified instead of
condemning lebron for quote-unquote
getting this one wrong
and quote-unquote sowing more division
how about working to understand
where that mistrust comes from because
if the police
and the people who blindly support them
if they want to be pissed
be pissed at the derek chavens of the
world be pissed at the off
at the uh kim potters of the world
because they have hurt your credibility
and legitimacy if you had any left
within the black community
you were saying and and and actually
that point really dovetails
into the final point i want to make and
the final point is
i i'm tired you know lebron james is
tired of
he said uh it is tweet he's angry he's
tired
seeing black people killed by the police
fair point absolutely a lot of us uh
black folks are tired of it you know
there's some white folks tired of it too
there are a lot of people of many
backgrounds
who are tired of seeing the brutality in
the streets
and you're tired of knowing some of the
talking points
and some of the some of the stories how
it turns out in the apologies and the
protests and the tears
and the families who are who are without
a child in some cases
a lot of case too many cases without a
child over something that you look at
and you say
well i'm not a cop and people always had
it it's a hard job
you don't understand no i don't it's one
of the reasons i don't do it
but it's a hard job so you should know
how to do it
and if you don't know how to do it if
it's too hard for you
if you go into a situation and you don't
know how to de-escalate
how about this respectfully turn in the
badge
turn it in you're killing people
if you can't stop yourself if you're
shooting
when you should be de-escalating it's a
job that you shouldn't be doing but
that's not even my my original point my
original point is this
lebron james says he's angry at black
people
being killed by police officers
i am tired of the judgment
and the um the condescending
you shouldn't be doing that to those
who have seen their communities
decimated
by over policing and systemic racism
let me let me get biblical for for some
of the so some of the evangelicals in
our audience
let me get biblical psalm 137 so i'm
just going to summarize for you psalm
137
uh these brothers say hey our captors
our captors have taken us away from our
homeland
yet they want us to sing they say sing a
song
sing one of those songs of zion for us
and these brothers say
how can we sing in a strange land it's a
great song by commission
two uh old school shout out um
but how can we sing when we're in a
strange land
in other words all this is happening
we've been displaced
and you're telling us to shut up and
dribble shut up and sing
shut up and write shut up and stick to
sports
shut up and be an architect shut up and
be a lawyer but not a lawyer for civil
rights
and social justice are you kidding me
now i'll tell you what's interesting and
a lot of people don't want to talk about
this if you read later in that psalm
psalm 137
think about follow the psychology of
those who are asking that question
how can we sing the conclusion they come
to you don't hear a lot of sermons about
it
read it i'm not going to give you the
answer read it 137
it leaves you hanging it's a cliffhanger
it's uncomfortable and that's what
happens with oppressed people
oppressed people when you're not a part
of the oppressed
it's easy for you to sit there and say
you should do this and you should do
that
hey that's not the way to handle it
that's not the way to protest that's not
the way to talk
oh you made a misstep there why don't
you be patient
why don't you be a little more
understanding you cannot
continue to hold people under your thumb
you cannot continue to
deny people their rights and expect that
everything is going to be cool
that's not inside that's not asking for
violence that's not inciting violence
that's reality that's all i gotta say
am i right bible study is over
my bible study's over am i right or am i
wrong when i say kumbaya
is the national anthem for races because
these people calling for unity
and peace i told you they don't mean
peace they mean quiet
okay they don't mean redemption on
meaning justice
they mean quiet uh let's take a break
and um
you know actually i think um
i think lebron's twitter account well
he didn't give us this topic we would
have talked about it anyway but lebron
is seeing what the rest of us are seeing
on the court and so uh i think his
twitter account will pop up
in our next conversation but it'll stick
to sports kind of way though
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