Is the NBA a bunch of pussies?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Well, why don't you have a conversation with the players? It's very easy to observe things in this country when you're a white person with white eyes, grew up in a white neighborhood and went to a largely white school. I have no choice but to interact and work with black people, and I get their perspective on this. Hard working, innocent, no criminal record, college educated black people telling me how scared they are when they are pulled over by the police, how angry they are when they are followed around a store.
I guarantee you every black man you know has been asked to step out of their car during a traffic stop at some point. I guarantee you every black man you know has been followed around a store. I guarantee you, you know a black man who people assumed was too black to drive a nice car so he must have stolen it. I have an older black man I work with, and all of those things have happened to him, his sons, and the other men in his family. Not one arrest, all college educated, all of them dealt with these situations in different cities with different officers and different local and state governments.
The NBA players have perspective. What white people are failing to do is listen to the people who have to deal with things like this all the time. Every time these news stories happen, the black people in my life get angry and upset, including the upstanding, college educated, innocent black people, and I have to sit there in the awkwardness and be uncomfortable because it's dishonest for me to say that I understand and it's bullshit for me to tell them that the way they feel isn't justified. When your good, upstanding black friends and coworkers tell you about their experiences, you realize this shit is more than just "shoulda listened to the cops. All Lives Matter. Slavery is over, Jim Crow is over". Perspective, my friend. Ask a black person in your life to give you perspective. See these situations through the eyes of victims of police who have racially profiled them. See this through the eyes of an upstanding citizen who has adult children that he calls every time these things happen and reminds them what to do when they get pulled over. I'm 25 years old, my brother is 34, neither of us had to be told how to interact with the police. I have over 30 first cousins. A number spread throughout the country. My brother, myself, and the rest of our relatives have never been asked to step out of a car, or followed around the store, or accused of driving the wrong kind of car while having the wrong skin color. Correction: one of my relatives have been asked to step out of her car. That would be my brother's black wife. So, please, sir, do not call NBA players who have dealt with these issues personally at one point or another pussies for standing up to put an end to racial injustice. The way society has treated them, they're mentally much stronger than those who get to sit back and complain about them not playing a game.

cheapshotbob · Accepted Answer

i think they are but i think its due too there over payed life style that have them thinking they have entitlement to something that is earned and not just given like you see all over the sports world.

Neko911 · Accepted Answer

You mean by not playing? Or the ones who are go pathetic they'll still play?

SuccessfulHornDog · Answer

Yes they are. Both the owners and the players but both groups have learned a very expensive lesson about race baiting and insulting your fan base. I detail it in my question